Aerial drop mast - power line

[bochnak]

My garage is in the middle of the aerial power line drop that runs from the pole to the house. It rubs on the roof of the garage. I had the utility company tighten the drop as much as possible. It still rubs, wearing on my shingles.

They mentioned that they could swing the drop to the other side of the yard, but rather not interfere with yard games. Also, it is up to me to install a mast on my roof, and they would reconnect for free.

I can perform the install myself. Any links and advice on products would be helpful.

 

[Matti]

I will have a similar issue once my garage is up. The power company says I can put a mast and a meter on my garage and they will connect to the garage. I'll just run the power underground from the garage to the house. The only thing the power company does is install the meter in the meter box and do the disconnect/reconnects at the garage. All of the hardware seems to be available at Home Depot but I will get an electrician to make the major connections from meter box to panel, etc.

 

[Junkman]

Keep in mind that when you make any service changes, that you need to bring the entire service up to current day code. I ran into this when I added onto my garage, and the service needed to be moved. Since I added a generator disconnect switch, my main service became a sub panel service, and I had to separate all the grounds from the neutrals, upgrade the grounding system, and pull a single 4 gauge copper wire from the cellar panel, through the disconnect and meter socket, and attach it to my well casing. Lucky for me, I was allowed to do all this myself, because when I got prices from electricians, they wanted between $4000 - $6000 to do the total job. I think that the electricians around here all want to get rich on each job, unless it is new construction bidding.

 

[kbs2244]

I have seen many a 4x4 bolted to the back side of a garage and sticking 2 or 3 feet higher than the ridge.
If they will do it for free, why do it yourself?
Do the wood work and let them do the wire work.

 

[flesburg]

Because of water damage due to a leaking downspout, I had to have my power meter relocated on my house.

We moved it about 20 feet to the side of my attached garage.

Because it is more than a few feet from the main service panel it had to have disconnects (main breakers) in the panel, and the space for them is just below the meter, and behind an access panel. There is space for two - 200 amp mains.

IF I had had any foresight (or my electrician had any) we could have run my house off of one 200 amp main breaker and a different 200 amp breaker could have powered my new detached garage. IE I could have had 400 total amps to my house and garage for very little more money than I spent.



You should explore a new meter box on your garage with two main breakers, one for the garage and one for your house. Its possible that you too could have this option available to you. And you might want it....