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Can the house be the detacted building?

romad275

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Built a garage 70 feet from the house. The service pole is now next to the garage connected to the house by a over head that crosses the yard and the corner of the garage. I want to move the meter from the house to the garage and connect the house by an underground elimitating the overhead. The meter on the garage is a short drop from the pole now and the utility will connect it for free.

So now would you connect this service with the meter on the garage?
 
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volleyball

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Where is your power usage? If the garage is a heavy power user than yes.
There may be other options. If you are going to be digging a trench between garage and house, it isn't much more to do house to pole.
 

sberry

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Sure, I got one that way, got a different one fed from one house to another. Have 4 detached structures and a walk in cooler powered from shop.

BTW, this is a nice upgrade. A lot of overhead is due to the fact the poco comes to the weatherhead for free in many cases and people become accustom to seeing it but underground is a class act, if often cost the customer some though, he has to buy wire. Some minor differences between companies etc.

I did one a while back and we were willing to pay a foot fee for the new from the road and they sent a field "engineer" ,,, we did put a UG in 50 ft from a ****** and pole but due to convoluted "rules" and a field tech don't know squat we had to settle for a crummy design that is going to cost the poco risk and maintenance for decades. They would never had to leave the road and could have lost 300 ft of hi line thru the woods and a ****** with us footing most of the bill and them doing the same upgrade hookup.

The owner didn't all much care so we just went with the flow and had to pay 100$ for 40 ft so all was well. I see a fair amount of new installs where it was poor design and underground would have added a lot value and in some case improved service.

I saw one where the owner was all giggly about the new 100 for his shop and the poco had to furnish wire on this so it made a little sense although another meter,,, but this long run was parallel with and ran 100 ft past a set of fat 200A conductors on its way to the garage.
 
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