On Wed 04/23/2025 23:49, Bill Dube via EV wrote (in part):
In general, a homeowner can go down to the local municipality and get an electrical permit to perform (most) electrical work for a single-family residence that he owns. You can't typically do this for a commercial property or a multi-family property, however. They typically restrict you from installing a replacement electrical panel. The procedures for doing this and the specifics vary enormously.
I'm in a smaller city in the Los Angeles county, Calif., suburbs. When my solar was about to be installed (by a solar company), I replaced my old 100A Zinsco main panel with a new 200A Siemens main panel and added a 100A Siemens sub panel in my garage and completely re-wired the garage. Of course I pulled a building permit from my city, but I as the homeowner was allowed to do all the work without any restrictions. A good friend of mine is a licensed electrician and answered a few questions and made sure I was doing it right, and I made several calls to the inspectors office to make sure I was doing it they way they wanted it. Note that they were happy to take my calls because "they would much rather that I do it right the first time, then fail inspection and have to come back". I had to have one inspection before the utility would energize the new panel (with a new 200A drop), and a final inspection after I was completed.
So yes, some locations are a pain in the backside, some make it pretty easy. -- 73 ------------------------------------- Jim Walls - K6CCC [email protected] _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
