Can This House Be Made habitable?

I’ll get a link; meanwhile; a man just completed a new house in N. Attleboro, MA. he cannot move in-the house (although build with a valid building permit0 is within 150 ft. of a 360,000 volt HT transmission line. carpenters working in the house received electric shocks when touching grounded outlets, a voltmeter connected to the (unconnected ) house power line reads 52 volts potential, and flourescent lamps light up when one terminal is grounded!
now the town won’t approve the home for occupancy-and the unluckey owner has no recourse 9the power company (NATIONAL GRID") has been using the easement for 20+ years.
My question: could the guy live in the house, if it was enclosed in a giant “Faraday Shield”? If he were to cover the house with copper mesh 9and ground the mesh with deep copper ground terminals), wouldn’t he be OK? Would he be safe? maybe it is no too bad-he has free lighting! :smiley:

I would say he would have a lawsuit against the realtor who sold him that plot of land.

IANAL, but I would guess if the town won’t approve it for occupancy, he will never be able to live there.

Find some woo-woo goofball who believes in astrology, dowsing, homeopathic remedies, body auras, etc. Tell him that this will strengthen the electrical aura of his body immeasurably, and sell him the house for a big price!

Isn’t it usually illegal to sell a house without a certificate of occupancy?

How did the house possibly get built with all of these issues? He may have a lawsuit if the general contractor did not inform him of the potential dangers while it was being built. Requirement of the GC to notify him would depend on the jurisdiction but I would have him use a free consult with an attorney.

That is very odd. I drive through North Attleboro every day and I think I know the high tension lines they are talking about. In any case, I definitely know of some nearby ones and there are houses all around them. There is one place not that far from there where HT lines pass right through a built-up suburban neighborhood.

I find it hard to believe that other houses along the same lines aren’t experiencing the same thing yet this one house is. I say it is a new urban legend or somebody screwed up when they hooked up the electrical system.