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I have a house that is stucco and the old rigid service conduit pushes the new meter and 200 amp breaker enclosure off the wall about 3/4". Does the code state anywhere if you can mount this to a piece of pressure treated plywood? The other option is strut, but i thought we could paint the wood to match the stucco.
 
We have already use an offset nipple. They had the original pipe mounted to the far left front of the meter. No compression conn. But they also had a conduit run out of the bottom to feed a garage panel that was double tapped off the load of the meter.
 
xjfam said:
I have a house that is stucco and the old rigid service conduit pushes the new meter and 200 amp breaker enclosure off the wall about 3/4". Does the code state anywhere if you can mount this to a piece of pressure treated plywood? The other option is strut, but i thought we could paint the wood to match the stucco.
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Would you waht a peice of wood on your stucco home? Use large nuts as spacers or cut emt spacers on your mounting screws. It is supposed to have 1/4' air space behing it anyway but nobody does that. They get mounted to the bare block and the stucco guys stucco right up to it. No more air space. NEVER got called on that in 40 years and when I was inspecting I was told "Don't go there".
 
xjfam said:
I have a house that is stucco and the old rigid service conduit pushes the new meter and 200 amp breaker enclosure off the wall about 3/4". Does the code state anywhere if you can mount this to a piece of pressure treated plywood? The other option is strut, but i thought we could paint the wood to match the stucco.
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The NEC does not restrict the use of wood to secure the enclosure to the structure.
 
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