The power wire going into my brother-in-laws house seems to be deteriorated. The heavy gage gray plastic coated wire going into his meter from the telephone pole seems fine but the wire exits the meter and runs along some of his bricks (horizontally) for about 10 feet before it enters the house. I think it's about 30-years old and it gets a lot of sun exposure. The horizontal stretch attached to the brick has the plastic sheath delaminated away to the point where you can see the woven insulation underneath. I assume the wires inside the woven insulation as also insulated.
Anyway, I assume that the plastic coating coming off the wire is a bad bad thing and needs to be fixed. The problem area is between the meter his hook-up to his breaker box in the house. Since he can't shut off the power at the meter, is this something the power company would be responsible to fix for free (even though it is on the house- side of the meter?
He's in Warren Michigan.
Thanks for any feedback you can provide.