Home Security: Breaker Box

[sandman76]

Maybe where you live. All the houses in Northern Colorado I've built or worked on the electrical service is at the front of the lot, street-side. Low voltage like cable and phone are located at the rear of the lot. Fuse panels on the outside of house are a money saving tactic generally used by larger builders who hire people to save them dimes and pennies. There is no city code in the cities in which I've seen it that requires such a placement of the panel.

Yeah, maybe I should have said in the Denver metro area. Which is the area that I've done the electrical work on a shitload of houses since 1977. I do agree, as I said, that economics are the main factor, as bringing the panel inside adds expense. It can be done though.

[sabot_round]

I will not buy a house where the main breaker is located outside the house. No way Jose!!

SR

[Great-Kazoo]

I will not buy a house where the main breaker is located outside the house. No way Jose!!

SR

More than likely that puts you in a newer home where power is underground / No power lines AND generally HOA - Covenant controlled.

[def90]

Back in Minnesota pretty much all the lines came in overhead from the back of the lot and all panels were inside, never saw one outside so location of wires has nothing to do with it. As far as I can tell $$$ is the only factor as to why they put them outside. The expense of 3 ft of wire to put the breaker panel on the other side of the wall from the meter is just too much for some builders.

Actually lines came in underground from the front and the back as well, never resulting in the panel being located outside.

Other things I never saw while working construction on homes until I moved here.. 3 legged ladders and wire hammer staples for romex. All the electricians used the plastic hammer staples.