Ok to power house from two meters ?

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zbang said:
Generally no- a structure must be fed by a single service (there are reasons why more could be allowed, but a full panel or undersized service isn't one of them). Give us a little more detail?
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I’ve done a brief calculation and this house has been added on so many times, etc. it’s maxed. He had me run an underground hot tub and another 120 v circuit to within about 20’ from the house out of a new 200 amp pool house service. ( I installed last year) Now he changed his mind. No tub but asked if I cd j box and extend to the house for future garage addition on house.
The house service is in a tough area to upgrade. Wd be expensive, tunneling under concrete etc.
I told I thought we can extend to close outside the house but should have checked NEC first. Concrete guys will cover the area soon.
 
What size service is on the house right now? And what size pipe do you have?

Maybe you can change from aluminum to copper conductors and add 50 amps of capacity to upgrade the service and use fusible disconnect.

Or maybe they need to change to a gas dryer and gas range
 
The POCO was saying they need a front concrete patio removed etc to run bigger wire plus the existing service would take a lot of re doing, it wasn’t done properly. Long story but owner wasn’t interested in upgrading cost. He thinks he wd want a heat/cooling unit in his future 3 bay garage addition and i don’t want to add that on his house 200 amp service.
 
I don’t see an AHJ approving this at all no matter what argument you have.
fact is it’s a single family dwelling.
 
This is typical, spare no expense of the fancy stuff that is seen, but kick and scream over the cost of infrastructure needed to make all their fancy stuff work. But they'll easily find a handiman who will hook it up without being compliant.
 
Thanks. I once had a customer with a detached garage with its own 200 amp service with upstairs rooms. He later had us join the house and garage with an addtion. The city inspector allowed us to keep both meters, but I made labels for the meters... something like 'Caution, this is only one of two meters on this house.'
 
Here is a quick thought, not all details worked out but what if, you were to install a meter disconnect, feed the current panel from it and feed the additional new space with a line from it also? It would be one service. As long as loads within limits and not more than six disconnects.
 
zbang said:
Guess they've never heard of directional drilling.
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I was told once to cut a 2x2 hole in the concrete floor of a garage and they’d come up there.
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This is how we had to finish it.
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I’m sure it works but it was to rocky here.


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I’ve done a few houses around here where they are only allowed to have one house on a property so they attach the houses together with a breezeway or something similar so they can be considered one house but then they have a meter on each house. I guess they got exemptions because the county and the Poco were fine with it. A little different scenario.


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It might pay to actually meter the service and determine the existing loads. It calculates out as being being maxed out, but the reality might be different.

-Jon
 
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