stew
Senior Member
- Location
- federal way,washington
replaced a service panel on a pedastel at a mfg home recently. the owners had added a porch in the area of the pedastel and the meter/main was pointing directly at the porch skirting about 10 inches away. to meet 110.26 we left the portion of the midwest riser that is the chute/raceway for the service conductors and turned the new meter/main service panel 90 degrees and bolted one edge of it to the existing riser. A nice lb out the back of the old riser and into the new panel and we were there. we added a smal 3/4 ply backboard to the prtion of the new panel that was extended out from the bbolt up. added a 2/6 scab to the porch skirting and then screwed the plywood to the edge of the 2/6. a very nicley suported and compliant install. Inspector cites the 550 section that says the service cannot be attached to the home. he adds to his explanation "including the porch". In my opinion the porch is not part of the home but rather an accesorry structure. The intent of the code seems to be according to the handbook to allow the home to be moved without the service being disturbe. seems he has added some verbage to the code that isnt there.