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Found 2 wires hanging below shingles against foundation

Home Improvement Asked on May 1, 2021

I found 2 wires hanging below the shingles against the foundation outside my house under my bedroom window. One is white, the other black. Are they electrical? No idea how long they’ve been there and now I’m scared. I accidentally touched them when pushing leaves away with my hand and I didn’t get electrocuted. They were hidden by the leaves. Please answer asap; it’s going to rain tomorrow!enter image description here

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The safest thing to do of course is turn off your main and treat it as an emergency, make an emergency call to a licensed electrician. Nobody could rule out from what's provided that these wires are unsafe.

My personal opinion, it's such a remote chance that this is an imminent danger, I'd have someone that's competent to work on basic wiring check it as soon as possible, but I wouldn't make it an emergency service call to an electrician.

With no bare conductor exposed, there's really nothing DIY for you to do.

There's a real chance these wires are just some scrap that got buried.

If they are connected to your electrical system, it's obviously not code compliant; but then again it must have been there for a long time, so it's not likely there's anything that's going to happen today.

Again I am not assuring you there's no hazard, just saying what I would do if I were in your shoes.

Answered by batsplatsterson on May 1, 2021

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