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Upgrade Your Electrical Service
If you are contemplating a major remodel, the
addition of a room or garage, or a new kitchen you
should consider upgrading your electrical service for
your Denver area home.
Thirty years ago, the average new home was equipped with
a 60 amp electrical service connected to a screw-in fuse
panel with two fuse blocks. The common distribution was
a fuse block for the stove and one for the hot water
tank. The balance of the homes electrical needs were
served by six, 15amp screw-in fuses.
Twenty years ago the average new home was equipped with
a 100 amp electrical service and some of them used the
latest in technology, circuit breakers.
Now the average home is equipped with a 200 amp
electrical service with a distribution panel handling up
to 40, 15amp circuit breakers serving the electrical
needs of the home.
North American’s are electrical power hungry. Today our
air conditioning systems take more power than an entire
home did 30 years ago. A kitchen, in a new home, will
usually be equipped with a number of receptacles capable
of supplying more than 60 amps just to counter top
appliances.
Adding receptacles does not increase the available power
if they are looped from other receptacles. To get more
power to a location the circuit should run directly from
the distribution panel.
Old style distribution panels, those with screw-in fuses
are generally considered fire hazards. The contact
between the base of the fuse and the buss bar oxidizes
or charcoals from poor contact. In order for the current
to continue to flow heat is generated. In many areas,
insurance companies will not renew homeowner insurance
if the home is equipped with an electrical distribution
panel that has screw-in fuses.
If your current electrical service to your home is less
than 200 amps, and/or if it has a distribution panel
that uses screw in fuses, you should consider replacing
it as a top priority in any major renovation project..
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