View Full Version : Crawl space flood,wires and metal junction boxes in salt water,what repairs needed.
mustache tom
Dec 4, 2012, 08:40 AM
Wires and metal junction boxes were submerged in salt water, everything seems to work, are repairs/replacement needed?
smoothy
Dec 4, 2012, 08:46 AM
Yes... Salt water is VERY corrosive and it will continue to corrode to the point you have in intermittant connection which will create a very real fire hazzard.
hfcarson
Dec 4, 2012, 03:36 PM
Smoothy is right on...
Good friend has a place north of Atlantic City... all the romex in the crawlspace failed under
A megohmmeter test, one wire burned about 16 inches.
Don't take any chances on this one, replace!