Should I Replace My Fuse Box?

Many people around are attracted to the old world homes because they have many things that just aren’t present in a freshly built home. Between all the various beautifully handcrafted wood-workings inside these homes it truly is no wonder why many people feel this way. However when you do move into buying an out-dated home you aren’t just buying its beautiful appearance, you are also buying a home with potentially out-dated electrical circuits. In the time when all these older homes were built the codes and standards were much different than they are today. Because e of this fact you may need to make some changes to your newly beloved home in order to bring it into the new century.

It is probably safe for me to assume that inside your home you are packing in at least two televisions, a computer, a washer and dryer, a dishwasher, and more than a few gadgets. You are also trying to plug them all into your house’s power supply. For many people that list doesn’t even stop there and will continue to grow. Although you may be in possession of all these great things you are unfortunate in that your house can’t support the demand because it is currently equipped with an old style 60amp service panel. This will cause you to constantly blow fuses but the problem can be easily fixed if you move to upgrading your fuse box to a modern circuit panel.

Our lifestyle of today is constantly using power and that requires you to install a circuit breaker service panel of 100amp at the very least. Although this may seem like the ultimate fix you must keep in mind that it’s not always as easy as just simply swapping one for the other. It all depends on the age of the current wiring inside your home. In some cases you may have to go through to completely rewire and update every single circuit that is running through your home. Even though this may seem like it is a massive problem to undertake you will be very pleased in the end. By going through all the trouble of replacing any old wiring inside your home you will not only make it safe but you will always be preventing many problems from occurring anytime in the near future.

One of the real reasons for why you will want to replace or upgrade your old style fuse box is that you will have a very limited amount of panel space. As we covered before we will surely be plugging many different things into our home’s power supple and we need to make sure there are fuses or breakers that protect every single circuit. For example, a modern kitchen needs at least 4 circuits. By your kitchen alone using up 4 of your 6 fuses you will not have much space left for the entire rest of your home. Circuit breaker panels will allow you to properly configure your house so you are not putting excessive loads on the system at any one time. This is just one main thing you should be looking at when considering to buy or currently living inside an old home. Although they may be beautiful you will find they come with their own unique problems that must be attended to at some point.