I'm building a new house in the country. There are no inspection issues as the county doesn't do that. However, we do want to adhere to code wherever possible. I built my current house and this new one will be elsewhere on the same property. I do plan to have an electrician do the breaker box(es) and supply from the utility, the meter etc. One question I have though, is can the breaker box be located centrally so that it's shorter runs to where the electrical needs to go throughout the house. Regarding some sort of main shutoff, I was thinking of having a cutoff switch just inside the garage door, but then the breakers in a box centrally located in the house.
Is this a logical thing to do, and if so, what is the main cutoff actually called? If I'm talking with an electrician, how do I explain what it is we want to do here?