Residential overhead securing

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The service from pole to the house has to be move because of a deck.(wire being to low).my question I have to move the point to another location and power company is already out and confirmed new location. I’ve always bolted a eye bolt to the house but in this home I have no access to attic. Just winding if it would be ok to lag bolt an eye to the house. Wire length is about 50’ from pole.
 
Does the POCO have any specifications as to how they want the point of attachment connected to the house?
 
We're required to use eye bolts with washers and nuts through framing members, not eye lags.

You might have to cut and patch an access hole in a wall or ceiling to use the correct hardware.

Be sure to take a picture or two of the inside before patching, unless it's visually inspected first.
 
Years ago one of our POCO's actually gave out a long lag style, open eye hook. Not sure if they still do that or allow lags. If you can ensure that a lag is going into solid wood like a wall stud it should be strong enough to support 50' of drop.
 
From Dominion Power's Blue Book; 290.3 covers the pertinent info, in red:


290 OVERHEAD POINT OF ATTACHMENT
290.1 For new construction the Customer will provide and maintain a safe and substantial support on
the building or structure to which the Company's service drop is to be attached. The Company will
furnish to the Customer at the Company's storeroom office the attachment device that will be installed
by the Customer.
290.2 The existing attachment device may not be suitable for terminating the service drop on a building
to be rewired. At Company request, the Customer at their sole expense will provide, install, and maintain
a safe and substantial support on which the Customer will install the new attachment device supplied by
the Company. Where the Company determines that a bolt is required through the wall of a building, the
Customer, at their sole risk and expense, will install a bolt furnished by the Company.
290.3 The attachment device shall be located such that personnel will not have to stand on a roof to
install the service drop. It must be workable from a ladder set on the ground. It shall not be installed on
a fire wall, parapet wall, chimney, belt of stone, brick or other material, a soldier course, an outside verge
board, an inside verge board, the upper three layers of brick, the fascia covering end of rafters, the end
grain of any wood member, siding between studs or any similar type construction, unless satisfactory
additional support is provided.
290.4 The attachment device will be located so that service drops and drip loops have a minimum of 3
feet* clearance from windows designed to open, doors, porches, balconies, fire escapes or similar
building openings. (* Exception: Conductors run above the top level of a window shall be permitted to
be less than the 3 feet requirement.)
290.5 The point of attachment should be 12 feet above final grade or higher due to service drop and
drip loop clearances. In no case shall this clearance be less than 10 feet. NEC Article 230.24B and NESC
Rule 234C3.
 
Ga Power used to furnish us a toggle type, the toggle swung parrallel with bolt going thru but did not have the spring and wings like what we think of as being a toggle bolt

this pic is not what we used but am attaching to help visualize
 

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Here we use a "snuggle plate", its got 6 holes for lag bolts and a insulator with a metal rod in the middle. wholesale houses will carry what the POCO requires if POCO does not furnish.
 
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