gayler
Well-known member
There is a person in our town that has safety concerns about the electrical hook up on his neighbor’s house first off for whatever reason this trailer house is 2 1/2 feet off the properly line which is against code. It was manufactured and placed there in 1974 the electrical line comes off a pole in this person‘s yard, drapes down and is tucked behind corrugated tin skirting this is not in any kind of enclosure. It is just stuck behind the tin and then connect to the house from underneath. The neighbor is very concerned about this. The city inspector says that a code was adopted in 1986 that all manufactured homes had to have the electrical lines, buried underground and not overhead and that because this home was manufactured in 1974, it predate the code and is exempt. The city inspector agrees that this is not proper, but sees no immediate safety concerns. I would think that electrical wires that are against the edge of tin would pose a risk of rubbing through the insulation on the wire due to the wire moving in the wind and could cause a fire. Is this something that you would have a problem with? I have not been able to find out what code on the electrical hook up was prior to 1986. My next question would be if they did trench and bury new wires and connect it properly. What about the breaker panel and wiring inside of the house being that there was work inside the breaker box does that breaker box and anything connected now have to be updated to current code?
