Nashville Home Inspection - Electrical Service Conductors - What's Wrong With This Picture?
Look closely at the electrical service conductors in the picture below. What's wrong?
HINT: Service conductors carry a lot of current. What protection does it offer?
ANSWER: The composite coating over the metal conductors is there to offer protection should the conductors (wires) come in contact with objects like ladders or people. If the insulation becomes deteriorated due to weather, it loses that ability to protect. Look how frayed the insulation is. These conductors need to be replaced. Now take a look at another picture below of the same conductors. What is also wrong in this picture?
ANSWER: Those are my finger tips showing in the bottom of the picture. I put them up there on purpose to show how close I can reach up to the conductors. I could have gotton closer and I was only standing on the ground near the service mast. Never should a pedestrian be able to come within 3 feet of service entrance conductors. These conductors, on this very old house, need to be repositioned to a higher level.
Thank you,
Richard Acree
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