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Not looking for professional electrician advice, just want to get some feedback and thoughts.
We currently have 100amp service in our house. It's an older home (build 1965). My initial thought was to upgrade the service to 200 amp service and be done. Called an electrician and he quoted $3300 for the Wisconsin area. This was to install new service box, PLUS run a new plug out to the garage. What started as a 3300 upgrade has now spiraled in to a situation with the power company. (have to move the service outside, tear up the patio, install new wires, possibly cut down trees and who know, take my first born son Oh - and the power company can't even come to DESIGN the new service for another 6 weeks.
Here's what we got on that 100 amp service. Hot tub, Electric Dryer, AC, and Electric Range. Some of you may be thinking. How is that even possible with the hot tub? During the summer, the hot tub gets drained. (I hate bugs) and AC takes over. Vice versa in the winter.
As an alternative TEMP solution. I propose to my electrician I just buy a new gas DRYER and we move the plug out the garage. It's not perfect, but my question is with the overnight charging options do my friends over at the MachEForum think this might be a temporary solution?
We currently have 100amp service in our house. It's an older home (build 1965). My initial thought was to upgrade the service to 200 amp service and be done. Called an electrician and he quoted $3300 for the Wisconsin area. This was to install new service box, PLUS run a new plug out to the garage. What started as a 3300 upgrade has now spiraled in to a situation with the power company. (have to move the service outside, tear up the patio, install new wires, possibly cut down trees and who know, take my first born son Oh - and the power company can't even come to DESIGN the new service for another 6 weeks.
Here's what we got on that 100 amp service. Hot tub, Electric Dryer, AC, and Electric Range. Some of you may be thinking. How is that even possible with the hot tub? During the summer, the hot tub gets drained. (I hate bugs) and AC takes over. Vice versa in the winter.
As an alternative TEMP solution. I propose to my electrician I just buy a new gas DRYER and we move the plug out the garage. It's not perfect, but my question is with the overnight charging options do my friends over at the MachEForum think this might be a temporary solution?
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