Best way to get new supply to house.

[lizzieuk1]

Morning all,

 

So we're trying to work out the best way to provide our new electricity supply. 

We're still living in the old house whilst building the new one and wondering if there's a way to connect the old cable to a new one once we are ready to move from old to new. (Green is old house & old garage)

The red line shows where the current supply is and we will need it to go to the blue box area where our utility will be.

There is currently also a feed to the old garage (purple) from the current house.

 

Any ideas of the best options for new supply? Is it even possible to join a new wire to extend the old supply 🤔 or are we better running a completely new cable - bearing in mind the old one currently runs from the East boundary under where the new garage will be?  Slightly worried that will cost an extortionate amount though!

[Redbeard]

1st obvious Q: Is the old house to be demolished?

[Alan Ambrose]

I think your local DNO will do a free visit to make a recommendation / give you some options. There are a lot of factors - age of supply, existing earth arrangements, availability of 3 phase, distance to main LV junction - that we don’t know. If it was me, I would want to future proof by getting a fully kosher connection now, probably running it into a permanent kiosk on the edge of your plot. There a bunch of discussion on the forum about installing new power connections.