Advice on Electrical Conduit

crazyal · Aug 28, 2011

Call an electrician. For now if you have an old inner tube you can wrap it around it. Being where it is you may need to have the power company disconnect power to fix it correctly, they may ask you for the name of the electrician doing the work. Either way you need to make sure that the wire inside the box has enough play otherwise you could do real damage. It's possible that you could pull the wires free from the other end and start a fire if they short out. It should be a quick fix so it shouldn't cost too much but better safe than sorry.

ustmd · Aug 28, 2011

Well, I did call my electrician who came out yesterday evening to evaluate--great guy and I highly recommend him.

We are going with the flex line. Supply warehouses in this part of the country don't even stock the expansion joints. Also as dstig1 mentioned, we are actually seeing movement in mulitple directions (the conduit no longer lines up), so the flex line will work better for that issue.

As a side note, the panel has a 200 amps breaker and feeds through to the barn. The wire the previous owner used to the barn is only rated to 150 amps, so I am having a 100 amp breaker put in to protect the line feeding the barn.

The joys of country livin'.