When my lateral lines were being installed, the contractor cut the electric to my barn. Approx 500 feet between the originating electrical area to the barn and it is broken in about a 20 foot section, how can I find each end in the break to repair? I have used a metal detector and can not locate either end, the contractor installed additional dirt over the land area to grade everything off.
2006-09-12 06:05:25 · 7 answers · asked by mtm1922 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
the contractor should be responsible for cutting the lines and should be put into their hands to repair the break
2006-09-12 06:16:12 · answer #1 · answered by dementiastateofmind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not being able to locate it with a detector may indicate that the line is in PVC or other.
You should be able to determine that by digging at the power supply end and at the barn.
If it is encased in PVC or other, then
you could just pull the wire and measure. Once you know the distance, then uncover the break, and you can re-insert the same wire. Same can be done from the other end. Then splice.
TURN OFF POWER!
2006-09-12 13:40:14 · answer #2 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to your local electric supplier, buy a "circuit tracer", it consist of a transmitter and receiver. Plug the transmitter into the circuit that is cut, at the source,and walk down the feeder until you lose the signal on the receiver. That will tell you approximately where the break is.
2006-09-15 15:48:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should call an electrician. the contractor is responsible for what he breaks. There are enough advertisements out that tell a person to call before they dig.
2006-09-12 13:49:12 · answer #4 · answered by Thomas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok...get an electrician or buy (fairly cheap) a tic-tracer..(or similar product).they sell them at Home depot or Lowes... its blue usually.....make sure power is off....hook one end to the tracer....the other is an amplifier similar to what the old time telephone guys used) that beeps as it senses the signal the tic tracer is sending into the wire....the amplifier picks up that signal as you get closer to the wire...
2006-09-14 19:49:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hire an underground locating service and a liscensed electrical contractor, and take what they charge out of the money you owe the jerk that broke it.
2006-09-12 13:16:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call him back..........his bad!
2006-09-12 23:05:42 · answer #7 · answered by fibreglasscar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋