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Posted by DerbyDad03 on October 23, 2007, 11:51 am
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> > > The power wire going into my brother-in-laws house seems to be
> > > deteriorated. The heavy gage gray plastic coated wire going into his
> > > meter from the telephone pole seems fine but the wire exits the meter
> > > and runs along some of his bricks (horizontally) for about 10 feet
> > > before it enters the house. I think it's about 30-years old and it
> > > gets a lot of sun exposure. The horizontal stretch attached to the
> > > brick has the plastic sheath delaminated away to the point where you
> > > can see the woven insulation underneath. I assume the wires inside
> > > the woven insulation as also insulated.
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> > > Anyway, I assume that the plastic coating coming off the wire is a bad
> > > bad thing and needs to be fixed. The problem area is between the
> > > meter his hook-up to his breaker box in the house. Since he can't
> > > shut off the power at the meter, is this something the power company
> > > would be responsible to fix for free (even though it is on the house-
> > > side of the meter?
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> > > He's in Warren Michigan.
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> > > Thanks for any feedback you can provide.
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> > hows the line from the wires at pole to the meter?
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> > what happens is its time for a service upgrade, new line from pole
> > wires, new meter can, new lines to main service box and new breaker
> > box, 200 amp prefered. you get upgraded grounding and other stuff,
> > plus add home resale value.
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> > homes require $$ on a regular basis just to keep up.
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> > its possible to have meter pulled and replace line from meter to main
> > breaker box but at 30 years isnt a good idea.
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> > A buddy of mine who hates spending even a dime on his home used RTV
> > auto stuff and smeared it on the detoriating line. Personally I
> > wouldnt do that, but he is in his 70s and said let the next owner fix
> > it:(
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> > around here the line you talk about is the property owners
> > responsiblity but that varies some over the country- Hide quoted text -
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> Here that horizontal run of uncovered/unprotected? cable would not be
> allowed, even 30 years ago.
> It should be in conduit; either older style metal or more modern
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> Again here; the meter itself is the property of the electric utility
> (they recently changed ours to a digital type) but the provision of
> the meter socket and the wiring from where the power utility wires
> connect at the overhead weather-head and from the meter socket to the
> main panel inside the house are owned by and are the responsibility of
> the homeowner.
> Absolutely amazed that open insulated wires on a surface like that
> would be permitted or safe; in most North American (well Canadian
> anyway) jurisdictions!- Hide quoted text -
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Perhaps you misunderstood....or maybe you have a different definition
of uncovered/unprotected.
The wire he speaks of can be seen here...look at the grey cable
clamped to the wall under the text "Jul".
http://msmith.typepad.com/photos/solar_energy/pv_disc_and_meter.jpg
Standard installation in the oft-frozen Western NY-Great Lakes
region.
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