Two services on one home

[growler]

Most likely it will be a commercial rate. FLAG!

A lot of building departments would not care about a home wood shop on a commercial rate if the area does not involve the public. But a shop with its own metering may raise a flag with your building department. It’s best to check but don’t think your electrical inspector isn’t going to notice even if he doesn’t say anything. Most of the time he will mention it to the building inspector and allow him and the municipality decide.

In this county just the word "new" service would cause the permit application to go before a zoning board and they would make a site visit to see what's really happening.

If it's in an area that's zoned for residential and lite commercial then there probably would be a problem. If this house is in a sub-division even they may have rules that would prevent a second service or any type of business.