I used the “money wall” idea in new construction. I wanted the service panel recessed so we could hide it.
Exactly how can you hide the electircal panel w/o failing final inspection. The picture is in our mud room. I wanted to put a window seat under the window and put in a cabinet for gloves and hat etc.
Example: could you hang a mirror over? or a cabinet that is easily removeable
Framing the floor inside a crawlspace foundation keeps a gable-end addition close to grade.
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I wouldn't hide it. I'd dress it up. Maybe a nice paneled door over top.
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What Gunner said...
Cabinet door in a 1x frame
Troy Sprout
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should also have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
-- George Washington
Section 110.26 of the National Electric Code governs clearances around electrical panels. You might want to take a look at it.......I couldn't find a quick online link to it, sorry.
Ed
Don't hide it. It might be nice that your wife be able to find it when you accidentally grab that wire that you somehow can't let go of.
<My hand is vibrating... and is that bacon I smell?>
Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
Oh, good Lord, no. But I can give him two dollars and an assault rifle.