I showed up on one job to do the temporary service and found the rebar in place and the concrete guys just waiting for the mud to be delivered. I asked them to stub up a piece of well tied rebar out of the footer and coat the last several feet of it with the foundation water proofing cement they had on site. They acted like I was crazy but they did it. It measured a lot lower than the thirty feet of number two that was used on the house next door. I have read somewhere that the steel does better in the footer than the bare copper does. Is galvanized rebar readily available? Will it help with the corrosion problem on the stub up. Galvanized ground rods are installed all the time so I presume that the galvaneal coating is reasonably conductive.
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Tom Horne
"This alternating current stuff is just a fad. It is much too dangerous for general use." Thomas Alva Edison
