trying to plan how to restore grid service after building with the meter burned down from lightning.
the burned building/meter was about 200 ft from the transformer on street and about 150 ft from my house where the main panel is located.
they suggested digging up the elec co wire/conduit about 15 ft closer to the street from where the meter was and cutting wire/conduit and running it up above ground to a freestanding H brace holding the new meter base. with this option the elec co will not charge us anything just to reconnect the service to the new meter.
if we want to move the H brace closer to house then they want $1500 to pull a longer wire and it may take weeks
the questionable to me suggestion was that maybe we could dig up our underground wire that went from the meter 150 ft to the main panel at the house and put it in some kind of above ground junction box and just run a short wire/trench from this J box to the new H brace
is it possible to splice an underground service wire ? does an above ground J box even exist ? This idea would be to avoid retrencing and running all new wire for 150 ft to the house
he also said that the elec co does not allow their wires to be spliced
the burned building/meter was about 200 ft from the transformer on street and about 150 ft from my house where the main panel is located.
they suggested digging up the elec co wire/conduit about 15 ft closer to the street from where the meter was and cutting wire/conduit and running it up above ground to a freestanding H brace holding the new meter base. with this option the elec co will not charge us anything just to reconnect the service to the new meter.
if we want to move the H brace closer to house then they want $1500 to pull a longer wire and it may take weeks
the questionable to me suggestion was that maybe we could dig up our underground wire that went from the meter 150 ft to the main panel at the house and put it in some kind of above ground junction box and just run a short wire/trench from this J box to the new H brace
is it possible to splice an underground service wire ? does an above ground J box even exist ? This idea would be to avoid retrencing and running all new wire for 150 ft to the house
he also said that the elec co does not allow their wires to be spliced