nod Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Just had a call from the electricity supplier Quote for two plots coming from overhead cables Crossing a moderately busy road £7000 A lot more than last time as all services where on the pavement in front of the plot Though £3500 per plot doesn’t sound to bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markc Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 That sounds pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Would be interested to see the breakdown. I would have expected less, e.g surely only one road crossing is needed etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 13 minutes ago, ProDave said: Would be interested to see the breakdown. I would have expected less, e.g surely only one road crossing is needed etc. It’s the first one I’ve tried Design map coming tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 4 hours ago, ProDave said: Would be interested to see the breakdown. I would have expected less, e.g surely only one road crossing is needed etc. It’s the first one I’ve tried Design map coming tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJohnG Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 6 hours ago, nod said: Though £3500 per plot doesn’t sound to bad Seems pennies to me. Albeit....I spent 18k crossed 3 fields with 6 poles and have my own transformer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 How do you find a non power company to do the contestable works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conor Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Bargain. Road closures are not cheap. I think we've done three on a project in work and it's cost €50k so far. My connection was £2300 and that was literally 10ft of digging through my neighbour's garden to bury the existing service. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitpipe Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 5 hours ago, Moonshine said: How do you find a non power company to do the contestable works? Talk to local ground workers - if they are doing road crossings then they need to be approved by the highways agency or LA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Do other services need to come under the road? We found Scottish Water gave a cheaper quote for the road crossing, so they did it and we laid in a duct for the electriciy. See if you can find a local contractor that has a minor street works permit. and see if they can mole under the road and install a black electricity duct. That would be chepaer than closing the road, traffic lights and digging the road up. We ended up with the connection pit open and a duct from the connection pit all the way to my meter box and the electrical connection them came down to about £1000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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