Do it yourself

Hello All; I am rehabbing a big old house, 3 stories and 6 bedrooms and I wanted to share how I am managing the rewiring. What I did was put in a new single 200 amp service (hope its big enough) and a new panel with a 200 amp main in the basement and then I put in smaller sub panels on each floor. I used copper 100 amp service cable to feed of the sub panels and once and I am feeding them with 70 amp breakers for the time being. I prefer copper it is easier to work with, does not creep out of the connections over time and was only about 2 cents more a foot than the aluminum. The main reason that I did it this way is that it is so much easier to for my longest home run to be 20 feet instead of a hundred feet and it will be a lot easier to add circuits later if needed. I also do not like to run all the way to the basement when I need to reset a breaker for something on the 3rd floor. I figure that it costs about the same to do it this way becasue you end up spending less money on cabling. I am very much into over designing systems that are exspensive and/or hard to change. I have been an electrician for over 30 years and I have seen the use and dependence on electrical applicances quadrupal in that time. I remember when I started out most of what I did was replace 30 amp services with 60 amp services. Now it is not uncommon to see dual 200 amp services in some larger homes. JOHN