On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:44:29 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:00:16 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 3/21/2015 4:29 PM, philo wrote:

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The run from the power company wiring...down to the meter is the owner's
responsibility and I'd never seen that be a cable. It should be a
heavy-wall conduit.


You should look around more. I can show you thousands of houses with
cable. When I lived in Philadelphia, I never saw a conduit entrance
unless it was from an underground entrance, a rarity. .


It's common here in northern Illinois. Maybe code. Some wires are
strung to fascia, and some to a pipe sticking out of the roof.
Mine's a 3 1/2" pipe going 4' above the roof.
That goose-necked pipe goes to the meter.
I had a new 200 amp service put in when I bought the house, and that
pipe was on my dime.
The service stack is part of your house.. The service feed wire
across your property is yours. All the way from the main distribution
line, generally at the street.