This seems a bit odd to me with the screws visible on the exterior? Couldn't you just unscrew the plate and get into the house that way?
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Ok, but then for a high end piece of hardware the screws look "unfinished"...
This.Although, the way a typical home is built these days, a cordless reciprocating saw would get you through a wall in very little time...
@1911's walls are concrete...Door security is more about home invasion as much as theft prevention these days. Crack heads can't think beyond their nerve ganglia and see only the door as a port of entry, that's how they get in their own crib, so that's how they plan to get in yours to put a gun to your head and start acting big. A good door slows then down giving you time to be better armed than the lot of them. And yes, shoot through the wall next to the door to drop them. No sense in having to replace such an expensive door.
Good work. Next time, find an offset nipple. Works like a dream and the way they can infinitely rotate helps align all sorts of holes, various backspacing, etc., assuming you don’t desire the cans/enclosures to be perfectly aligned bottom/bottom.Latest little bit of progress: I put up the meter base and 200-amp disconnect for the house myself. A simple thing for a lot of you guys I suspect, but it was all new to me. The hardest part was figuring out how to connect the two enclosures with the correct components. The 2" knock-outs in both enclosures do not line up; different manufacturers. I would have thought there might be industry-standard offsets for that sort of thing (including the offsets for the mounting holes) by now, but apparently not. A piece of flexible conduit and some compression fitting hubs made for it were the answer.
The first of many things electrical I'm sure I'll have to learn. Besides the satisfaction of doing it myself, it saves the money from having to pay an electrician to come do every little thing.
The electric co-op that I get my power from had a contractor come out and trench and bury the conduit and line from the power pedestal under the pole with the transformer to my meter base. Waiting for them now to come hook up and set the meter.
The location of the meter base is on the well house, facing the big house, so it will easier (no turns) to run the heavy cable from there, in PVC pipe under the driveway and house, to the main panel in the mechanical room in the middle of the house.
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Good work. Next time, find an offset nipple. Works like a dream and the way they can infinitely rotate helps align all sorts of holes, various backspacing, etc., assuming you don’t desire the cans/enclosures to be perfectly aligned bottom/bottom.