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The toughest job for an Electrician, Overhead Service Fixing, do you agree? #bluecollar

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Video by Hendy The Sparky

Hendy The Sparky

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This video documents an electrician's service call to a customer's home where the electrical service head was ripped off due to a winter storm. The electrician assesses the damage, identifies the components involved (meter pan, main electrical panel), and then discusses the customer's financial hardship, seeking input on how to price the repair given the circumstances.

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so a customer called saying that they have their power line detached from their house also known as their service it's cold out here in New Jersey we had an icy storm and they need an electrician to come fix it they called us to come give him a price so come with me on this electrical estimate and see what it looks like all right so I just got to the customer's house here is their service guys so you can see that their service got detached because a tree fell and detached the service head from the house so they called us to reattach the service and see also as well the utility pull is there there's also a telecommunication wire that's down but that's not us so we don't do any telephone wire that's a telephone company so also this is a 200 amp meter pan they have and I checked inside the panel is rated at 150 amps we're going to get him a price to put this service head back right so I just got home and I want to tell you guys that the customer actually was very nice it was an old elderly woman and she was very respectful she let me into her house you know take a look at the property but long story short she said she was low on funds she paid a tree guy over $2,000 to remove the tree that landed on her service so she's already down $2,000 and she told me she can only pay payment plan $200 a month and didn't even have $200 to start with so uh I haven't given her a price yet but let me know what you guys think is a fair price to fix that job

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