I have an apartment building. Service is being upgraded. The problem I have is in regards to supporting the service riser and drop.
This building is a ranch style. Looking at the outside wall on the building. We have a wall, go up 8' and we have the soffit. The soffit comes out approx. 15". Then we have a low angled, roof with shingles. The top of the roof is approx 11' off the ground.
This is where the problem is... I need 18.5' of clearance from the ground. I have to go around the soffit or through the roof.
I have seen angle iron support on commercial buildings, even offset angle iron, but I have never seen it as tall as 8' off the roof.
The inspector said guide wire is not an acceptable means of support. It sounded like guide wire is never acceptable, thought I heard it was, but again never installed one.
My guess is I need a welder to weld angle iron with an offset to the correct dimensions. Mount that to the brick wall and go ahead with the rest of the install.
Any ideas on this?
