[CG123]

Hi everyone, Sorry, this is going to be a bit of a long question.

I had a question regarding an electrical service upgrade I am trying to do here in BC. I am trying to keep the installation looking as clean as possible as I will have to run a teck cable down the side of the house about 25' along the side of the garage.

My plan was to run Teck cable 25' down the side of the garage, coming out of the top of the meter allowing me to jump over the gutter and than hitting a 2" EMT LB. Than going from LB to panel using 2" Emt with 1 more LB into the panel or using 2" Flex into the panel. My concern is keeping the bonding continuity with the teck armour, since it would be a threaded connection I feel like it will maintain the bonding continuity?

The Red Line is my Teck cable coming out of meter, the Blue is the LB into the house, and the yellow is basically where the panel location is.

I thought about doing it in PVC on the exterior and then transitioning to Teck. The issue is the meter cabinet is built out to hide the 3" conduit for the incoming feed already. I feel like trying to get the conduit to line up on top of the meter with the bump out will be hard and there is a 3" gutter in the way I need to get over as well, I could ask the homeowner to move the Gutter. Also debated about going teck on the exterior to PVC to the interior but PVC is not rated for contact with insulation so that is not going to work.

I know I could stub it into the garage and use the existing panel as a sub panel, and put a new panel next to the meter. 2 issues with that the 1) homeowner has a home gym with equipment mounted everywhere on the wall behind the meter 2) There is a concrete walkway up against the foundation of the house and then I would have to bust open the concrete walkway to get a new ground plate in.

Also for the ground what does everyone do when the are buried under concrete? It is a newer house built in early 2000s with a #6AWG going out all the connections are good no corrosion or pitting or anything like that. Talked to a few other friends who are electricians and they said not to worry about it .

Hopefully this all makes sense or hopefully someone has some other suggestion.

Thank you very much for the help, hope everyone has a good weekend!

 

[Bcec]

Hi everyone, Sorry, this is going to be a bit of a long question.

I had a question regarding an electrical service upgrade I am trying to do here in BC. I am trying to keep the installation looking as clean as possible as I will have to run a teck cable down the side of the house about 25' along the side of the garage.

My plan was to run Teck cable 25' down the side of the garage, coming out of the top of the meter allowing me to jump over the gutter and than hitting a 2" EMT LB. Than going from LB to panel using 2" Emt with 1 more LB into the panel or using 2" Flex into the panel. My concern is keeping the bonding continuity with the teck armour, since it would be a threaded connection I feel like it will maintain the bonding continuity?

The Red Line is my Teck cable coming out of meter, the Blue is the LB into the house, and the yellow is basically where the panel location is.

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I thought about doing it in PVC on the exterior and then transitioning to Teck. The issue is the meter cabinet is built out to hide the 3" conduit for the incoming feed already. I feel like trying to get the conduit to line up on top of the meter with the bump out will be hard and there is a 3" gutter in the way I need to get over as well, I could ask the homeowner to move the Gutter. Also debated about going teck on the exterior to PVC to the interior but PVC is not rated for contact with insulation so that is not going to work.

I know I could stub it into the garage and use the existing panel as a sub panel, and put a new panel next to the meter. 2 issues with that the 1) homeowner has a home gym with equipment mounted everywhere on the wall behind the meter 2) There is a concrete walkway up against the foundation of the house and then I would have to bust open the concrete walkway to get a new ground plate in.

Also for the ground what does everyone do when the are buried under concrete? It is a newer house built in early 2000s with a #6AWG going out all the connections are good no corrosion or pitting or anything like that. Talked to a few other friends who are electricians and they said not to worry about it .

Hopefully this all makes sense or hopefully someone has some other suggestion.

Thank you very much for the help, hope everyone has a good weekend!

For one I'm quite sure you are not allowed to come out of the top of an underground style meter base.The load conductors are required to enter below all live parts of the meter base. Using p.v.c would be okay as long as no more than 6" is in contact with insulation which would accomodate going through wall into back of panel.P.V.C. also looks so much neater than teck cable.Just avoid the down pipe altogether by just going up higher above angled pipe portion.Will you need to install an isolated neutral pad in the existing meter base to meet new code?

 

[Navyguy]

As soon as I read Teck90 I thought ugly, then read the rest of your post.

Option #1
I would go from the main panel to the sub, if possbile from the interior.

Option #2
If those are slabs and not poured concrete, I would go underground to the new location. If they are slabs, I would even consider cutting them and running to the gravel area and back in again.

Option #3
Go from the lower left side of the meter socket (assuming it is rated for double lug), up to the eve (to avoid the downspout) and across then back down into the back of the panel with PVC. Either use an LR to keep it tight to the meter socket or use a 90* out of the meter socket with a kick. Have the siding guy rework the area to make it look nice again.

Cheers
John