Green Electricity Box Outside House

You know those gas and electric metal boxes that say high voltage and people sit on and kids play on.

Green electricity box outside house. This box apparently runs the electricity for the subdivision or at least a few blocks in the subdivision. Is this thing bad for your health. When considering landscaping near electrical equipment please keep these guidelines in mind. The elementary school aged youngsters were just waiting for the school bus but they were sitting on a big green metal box.

2 firetrucks attended and after about 24 hours the new box was put in a bit smaller and a darker shade of green. See more ideas about utility box front yard backyard. Jun 1 2020 explore rosa boucher s board hiding utility boxes in yard followed by 123 people on pinterest. The electric company goes in and out of my backyard almost everyday.

If you re using an oil paint keep mineral spirits or other paint solvents away from the box. This is the side with the lock generally facing the front of your house. There were five kids gathered there to wait for a bus. The one in front of my neighbor s apartment was leaking oil for a long time nobody knew it was in grass and looked like water from a bad sprinkler.

Continue with the primer as a second coat or use an exterior grade latex or oil paint that matches your house or trim paint. The electric company doesn t even ask to enter my yard. It was a bad place for a school bus stop overbee recalled. It s about 15 to 20 feet from the house.

Can it cause any health hazards. Maintain a clearance of 4 feet on the other three sides of the transformer. Clean the box cover lightly and apply a coat of rust preventing primer before putting on a topcoat. The electricity is distributed around your suburb at 11 000 volts and there are small substations green boxes for underground power areas or pole mounted ones for areas with overhead cables which drop the voltage down to what is fed to the houses.

One day with no warning the whole box just went up in flames blacked out all my windows for a few seconds look outside and there s a 100ft tall plume of black grey and orange smoke. There s this huge metal green electric box in my yard.