Hello all.
The past owners of the older home which I live in now had tried 'fixing' things throughout the house (most notoriously venting a bathroom exhaust directly into a sealed attic space...*sigh*). One of these problems which I am now trying to undo involves them mismatching the electrical breaker box and the panel that covers it.
The box itself takes some odd-looking, older toggle (push in, push out) breakers, square in shape. The panel cover has the knockouts knocked-out for the newer, wide rectangular breakers.
I was warned when I purchased the house that this would have to be fixed, because it is dangerous--there is a major gap between the actual little square breakers and the holes from the knockouts for the other type of breaker.
Basically, my question is this: can I get *just* the panel for the existing breaker box? I'd rather do that if at all possible, instead of incurring the additional expense of having to replace all of the breakers to put in a totally new system.
Can anyone point me to a place where I can get just the cover? BTW, I can take pix, if that would help. Thanks so much in advance!! :)