If it matters, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms dont get used, so no electricity being pulled from there (if you’re referring to juicing so much that the breakers trip)?
Essentially,
You can spend the money to have an electrician chase down the active draw on all your breakers and inspect the wiring to see what can be paired to make room or you can spend the money to upgrade the panel and the electric service being run into the house itself.
Neither is a bad option inherently but the second is a legitimate value add in case you decide to sell it and move.
Yeah. I mean for the whole house. Like dyer, car charging, all lights on, power tools, cooking.
But it should be fine
The breaker is in the laundry room and the garage is not on a shared wall. I was told by one of the electricians that there’s hard foam between the walls, so wiring can’t get fed through the walls. He wanted to upgrade the main box, and feed the wire around the house. Another wanted to take it straight up to the 2nd floor, and feed it through the attic, take it out on the other end of the house, then feed it around and through the brick masonary, into the garage.
That’s honestly too small of a panel for that size of a house, I was figuring a rowhouse or townhouse before you added visual context.
lol. Just show them the picture of your panel and those tandem breaker. They will understand.
It will be the cost of
2 20amp tandem breaker
1 50 amp breaker (for car charging)
Copper wires ($/ft)
Conduit to run wires
Plug or hardwire unit (self provided)
Plus labor.
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I surely will want to sell and move. I also look at it like I could use that $5K towards an X5 and be happy for at least 4 years 
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F’ing Texas and their lazy inspectors lol jk
We should chat about an X5 sometime then. 
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I’ve literally been stalking your (and other) Marketplace posts and get a brief high each time I see a new post notification haha
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Looking at your pictures.
Are you sure the outside panel. Gray isn’t the main? It looks like the tan was is a sub panel and is fed by the gray one. Top left labeled as inside.
I can’t read the amp rating of the gray panel
The gray one may also have tons of space those rectangle slots get popped off
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Yes, the grey bigger one is the main. That’s the one that has like 4 on there, while the tan one is inside - so i assume that’s the sub panel?
225A is wayyyy better.
Can they not wire it to the main and install a sub breaker at the location of the charger install?
edit: Saw your follow up…wow…the builder really didn’t forsee you ever needing more than that.
But when he opened it up, the black circuit board was like 1/4 of the size of the box, so i visually saw they were all being used. At first he said they would need to replace the entire box and board, etc but i was like why the box? Its still new, so he “calls his boss” and could then keep the box and save $500
Thanks, i will reach out to the first guy that came by… his quote was cheaper ($1800 - $2000) but that was before the 3rd electrician opened up the gray main box and noticed it was all used up.
That gray one has 6 breakers.
So did you get a picture of what’s under the gray panel?
It would be weird to have all those extra tabs and nothing underneath to plug in more breakers
Maybe not all the way down but at least more than 1/2 way lol
This was a new build and they forgot to wire the dryer so we had to wait for the builder’s electrician to come back out after we moved in lol I suspect that was likely not the only oversight
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I wish I would have, but didn’t. We have 2 water heaters that are connected to it, though. It was 3 breakers or whatever theyre called on the left and 3 on the right. Looked like it didnt belong in that big box.
It’s like popping the hood of a super car and seeing a 4 cylinder engine.
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Either way.
You can buy a 30/30 tandem breaker. Combines both the water heater.
This will make the space you need for the 50 amp line for the car charger.
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