I have a 41 year old house and the electric entrance wire from the transformer to my meter on my house was direct buried in the ground with no conduit protection. Half our power went off the other day so the power company paid and installed new wire in a 3" PVC conduit.
The conduit and new wire goes up the side of the power pole about 60' from my house and the conduit stops a few feet from the transformer.
The part that bothers me is the top of the conduit where the wires comes out is open to the weather. It has no weather head on it. This makes me think that the conduit will fill up with water as we have about 44" of rain a year here in NW Arkansas.
I asked one of the men from the power company about it and he said they always do it that way.
Is this alright?
If not now would I cover the end of the conduit?
Thanks a ton!
The conduit and new wire goes up the side of the power pole about 60' from my house and the conduit stops a few feet from the transformer.
The part that bothers me is the top of the conduit where the wires comes out is open to the weather. It has no weather head on it. This makes me think that the conduit will fill up with water as we have about 44" of rain a year here in NW Arkansas.
I asked one of the men from the power company about it and he said they always do it that way.
Is this alright?
If not now would I cover the end of the conduit?
Thanks a ton!