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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does your current box have capacity for 4 new breakers?  That would be good. 200 should be fine and was for our prior house with 2 AC units.  [/quote]

To me it looks like yes, but my electrical knowledge stops at HS physics and taking notes on my parents’ box for a project.

Electrician 1 insists it has room but is going to run the numbers to be sure.

Electrician 2 wants to add a panel but I think it’s just to simplify his other work.

HVAC guy 1 wants an additional 95A.

HVAC guy 2 insists he needs &gt;100 additional amps.

Contractor who is neither HVAC nor electrical insists that all of these calculations are wrong. We have more electricians coming out in 10 days so I hope to get clarity then, but we are also under time pressure because we need to move and list our other house soon and book work before the post-Christmas busy season starts.

None of this matters if the city can confirm that we have a conduit and not just a buried line, or that we already have upgraded service from a past renovation, but it takes 2 weeks to be assigned a rep and even more time to get them to do a site visit.

It’s suddenly very obvious why the previous homeowners didn’t do certain things, and frustrating that even a thorough inspection can’t provide insight into some of the problems we’ve stumbled into.[/quote]

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