Water Coming out of Meter Base - InspectionNews

Wayne Carlisle · #1 (**permalink**) 03-17-2010, 06:37 AM

Got a call from a lady the other day saying there was water coming out of her electric meter....I thought..yeah right!

Gunnar Alquist · #2 (**permalink**) 03-17-2010, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Wayne Carlisle

Got a call from a lady the other day saying there was water coming out of her electric meter....I thought..yeah right!

Wow. Artesian?

John Arnold · #3 (**permalink**) 03-17-2010, 07:43 AM

I guess there must be a little hydroelectric plant in there?

Scott Patterson · #4 (**permalink**) 03-17-2010, 07:55 AM

I have come across the same issue twice! Each time the water was coming from a location up hill from the house. The water was traveling down hill and into the conduit and being pushed up and out by pressure.

Jim Luttrall · #5 (**permalink**) 03-17-2010, 07:59 AM

Great picture!
No one would have believed it otherwise!

brian schmitt · #6 (**permalink**) 03-17-2010, 08:23 AM

texas water meter?

Bruce Breedlove · #7 (**permalink**) 03-17-2010, 02:10 PM

That reminds me of an old Three Stooges episode:

Rick Hurst · #8 (**permalink**) 03-17-2010, 03:02 PM

Bruce,

Thought you might enjoy that episode. Here it is.

rick

The Three Stooges - A Plumbing We Will Go (1940) | Free Comedy Videos - Watch Comedy Videos Online | Veoh#

Bruce Breedlove · #9 (**permalink**) 03-17-2010, 04:29 PM

Rick,

I have liked the Three Stooges as far back as I can remember. I vividly remember seeing 'Cash and Carry' at the theatre in our small town when I was about 4 (that would have been about 1959). This was back when you got a short and a cartoon before the movie.

All the Three Stooges shorts are available on DVD now. I have the first of the set (The Three Stooges Collection - Volume 1 1934 - 1936). Eventually I will buy the entire set.

My girlfriend (like every other woman) does not appreciate the humor of the Three Stooges'. I have decided that men are born with the Three Stooges gene and women are born without it.

Jerry Peck · #10 (**permalink**) 03-17-2010, 04:57 PM

Wayne,

Somehow I suspect that sealing that conduit up as is required would not have stopped that, nor was stopping that the intent of that code section.

Scott Patterson · #11 (**permalink**) 03-17-2010, 06:19 PM

I'll tell you that once you do ever find water in the conduit, it sure does make you look for it from that point on! It really is surprising how many homes I have looked at over the years and I have found water in the conduit or signs of past water/mud entering the box via the conduit.