Joshua Peterson with Peterson Electric in Loveland, CO. We are doing an overhead service change job here. This is your electrical meter. Some of your newer meters will have a digital in there or even a net meter. This is an old school disc meter, where it turns and clocks how many hours you have been using in kilowatts. It is an overhead service because your power comes in overhead the roof, done here to the meter. Sometimes there are under the eave of the gutter. We are going to upgrade this today to a 200 amp meter, instead of a 308 volt meter, 200 amp meter and 200 amp service, then we are going to take power down to the basement for a 100 amp sub-panel. We are going to ground out this panel, take our ground to the cold water. Then I will show you in here, we are taking this old box here and we are going to update this to a junction box and take the guts out. Our power and breakers will be outside now because I can’t structurally put a new panel in this wall or this wall. It really makes sense, back to back, to have this reefed as a sub-panel. The nice thing about Loveland is I don’t have to worry about arc fault breakers. It says in article 210.12 that if we modify or extend those circuits in any manor, some cities will make us arc fault the whole house, all the lighting circuits and general power circuits if you touch it. Loveland is not that critical about it, so it is kind of nice. I can treat this now as a junction box. Put in my 200 amp meter and service out there, new riser for 2 inch outside and go ahead drop my 100 amps in the basement and ground the service. So later on today, we will show you exactly what we are doing as we progress through this job. It is about 12 to 15 hour job to this kind of work. This service is a little bit more expensive than my underground services cost typically $2,800.00 to $2,600.00 to $3,000.00 depending on grounding and how much conduits are in the panel. This service is going to be a little more because we are treating this as a sub-panel plus another panel plus a sub-panel in the basement. This job is coming right around $3,800.00 to $4,000.00 for all the work and the grounding. The home is built in the 50s, so everything is really outdated and the service is probably a 100 amp in this home, some homes I have seen are 50 amps. We are going to up this with copper to 200 amps. When this is all said and done, these guys could run a hot tub, solar system, you name it, anything off of this place. Thanks for joining us!
