Power in to house. Who owns what.

Oak tree came down. Pulled the lines down and the meter off the wall.

I killed the main beaker as one leg of the service wascut while the other was still up and running.

So who owns what. Power company owns wires to the house. What about the wires down to the meter? What about the meter?

Never had to deal with tho before.

Generally, you have to buy or make the pole with the drop, meter box, etc., and then the power company puts it in the ground and hooks it up on top and puts a meter in. That's how it works around here, but we are Co-Op. So, I suppose that I own the pole and wires up to the top hat thingie because I bought them at Lowes in one case.

Did you call the electric company and ask them? They probably have that question asked regularly.

It may vary by locale, but I can tell you that everywhere I know of, the power company owns everything up to, and including, the meter.

Which is not to say they can't charge you for the labor to re-attach. In new construction, the power company will charge you to run cable from the pole to the house.

I suggest contacting the power company as well as whoever carries your homeowner's insurance.

EvanR wrote: It may vary by locale, but I can tell you that everywhere I know of, the power company owns everything up to, and including, the meter.

This is my understanding as well at least for the areas I work in. I work in the utility locating business.

Around here, the meter base and mast are yours. The meter and service drop are the power company's. The PC is going to cut the service loose and strap the coiled up wire to the pole. Once you have an electrician re-install the meter base and mast and the city/county inspects it, they will reconnect the service.

It does vary depending on the electric utility, so it doesn't matter what people say about how it's done in their area. The utility may or may not take ownership of the service mast. Call them to find out.

Call your insurance company. They'll send an electrician out to fix. When we had a big storm at our place, the Electricaian knew that he had to re run the wires to the road and that he utility only owned getting it to the road. It varies by location.

Edit: Here's what i mean to say.. I have USAA, they do everything for me. When I have stuff like this happen, I call them... they fix it. fast.

Wonder if I can go USAA. Called mine and they are gone for the weekend. And left early due to the snow. So much for there helping.

The mast looks to be perfectly fine. It looks like the clips on it are actually designed to break away. Looks like it could just be tipped up and the clips that held it in place could just be re wrapped around the cable. The meter looks like I was secured to nothing. The wire clips above and below were what was holding it in place. This should be a 20 minute fix once the power is disconnected.

If the friggen power people get here. Going on 24 hours with a cop sitting out in the street guarding the downed line. I can not do a dam thing untill the power company gets here to turn off the power.

24 hours with a live line down? Berk

Matter of priority. One house down vs hundreds. Single outages are often last to be addressed.

Your insurance company should have an emergency number to call as well, manned 24/7.

We have to insure the lines from the pole to our house seperatly from the house. Cost us 68 dollars a year through the electric company (AEP)

My sister in law had the same thing happen yesterday. She was told that if the electrician fixes everything on the house side before the power company comes out, instead of just cutting the power, they would restore the power. Her wires snapped when the branch fell on them. The branch and a large bush caught on fire. Luckily for her, the power pole is on her property, so no cops, just fire dept.

I just re reported I and there was no record of it in there system. I noted that we had a detail here that has been on site since yesterday. They said I would have a response in an hour or less.

We will see if this helps.

Here, Consumers owns the meter and everything up to it. Any problems and they come right away and fix it.

Well two hours later and no responce

Eversource (our new energy supply company) is rapidly not impressing me. At less NSTAR was communicative. And even responded in a readable amount of time when things needed attention.

So, call them back.

Around here the power company owns the line to the house and the meter. The powerhead, line to meter, meter base, etc. are owned by the home owner.

My powerhead is attached to the house with just a cable running down to the meter base. Last time I had a problem the power head and cable was pulled off the house.

I argued with the power company and they fixed the whole thing. Nothing was wrong with my line after the storm. They pulled it off the house trying to get the tree off the neighbor's line that runs from the same pole as mine.

Well I am now on generator power. The mast and the meter box are all on the ground. Thanks to the linesman that came by. The mast, meter box, meter are all re usable said the linesman. Electrician friend is comming over tomorow to reinstall it. Then I have to start calling eversource again to get them back to install a new drop. They cut it at the poll and said I will get a new one. I now have about 100 feet of wire that was the old drop rolled up in back yard.

Verizon is going to be really pissed off. They cut the fiber line that went to my house at the pool as well. When it was installed I was told it was the longest fiber cable that they install to residence. It went down the street a ways to a box of some sort.

A fellow GRMer lives exactly a mile from me. There is a cop posted about 200 yards from his house and another posted about 200 yards from my house. Road closed because a pole came down. Last I checked, its been 24 hours plus.

I was out of power in ct for 11 days once. In other news Honda makes one hell of a generator.

Fueled by Caffeine wrote: I was out of power in ct for 11 days once. In other news Honda makes one hell of a generator.

I would trade my 9000 watt for a 6000 watt Honda any day. Having all that wattage is nice I can run the entire house with no issues. I bet I could run everything in the house at the same time with it. However the noise is a bit tiresome. Hondas are so much quieter.

I hope my neighbors are a bit understanding. I have a stone wall planter that about 5 feet off my house. It runs the length of the house. I put the generator behind it so the sound is for the most part deflected up. But I started it at 7:00 am on a Sunday morning. LOL.

In reply to dean1484:

When I was out of power my whole street, actually town and most of state was out of power. My neighbor was a cop. He came over one day and marveled at how quiet the generator was. I'll have another. I now live in the middle of the city and just have no need.