I am in the process of building a new home and we just had our electrical hooked up by Com Ed. The run from the utility box to the house was about 150 feet. Com Ed told me there would be an additional charge for anything over 100 feet but they didn't tell me it would be over $17 per foot. I just got hit with a bill for $863 just for them to connect me to the utility box. What have other people paid for their connections?
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New home electrical connection
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logical
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What would you have done if you knew it was $17/foot over 100?
I don't have my spreadsheet handy from when I owner-built 2 years ago but I kinda remember the gas line being the shocker. I am also 150 ft plus from the road.
I don't have my spreadsheet handy from when I owner-built 2 years ago but I kinda remember the gas line being the shocker. I am also 150 ft plus from the road.
I would have borrowed my neighbors directional boring machine for the weekend and went under the road to make the distance less than 100 feet.
Interesting you thought the gas was a shocker, my gas line run (100feet with the first 60 feet being free) was only $125 and they did bore under the road.
Interesting you thought the gas was a shocker, my gas line run (100feet with the first 60 feet being free) was only $125 and they did bore under the road.
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Palmetto
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lol....
Check this Bro. I am building out in the country, and I am 600' from the road. I decided to go underground to prevent chopping up abunch of pecan trees. So, I rented a trencher, trenched 600', layed that much 3" sch.40 conduit w/mulestring in it, and built a meter panel with a meter, a 200a main breaker for the house & 100a main breaker for my barn, and made a pad for the transformer to sit on. I had to pay for all of that, plus for the power company to come out, and set 1 pole and pull the wire, set up the transformer, and hook up the power to the meter.
Power Co. charged me $6600
My cost (trencher, matl's,etc) : $1500
total: you do the math...lol.
Some people dont understand how much it costs to get set up in the country!!
Check this Bro. I am building out in the country, and I am 600' from the road. I decided to go underground to prevent chopping up abunch of pecan trees. So, I rented a trencher, trenched 600', layed that much 3" sch.40 conduit w/mulestring in it, and built a meter panel with a meter, a 200a main breaker for the house & 100a main breaker for my barn, and made a pad for the transformer to sit on. I had to pay for all of that, plus for the power company to come out, and set 1 pole and pull the wire, set up the transformer, and hook up the power to the meter.
Power Co. charged me $6600
My cost (trencher, matl's,etc) : $1500
total: you do the math...lol.
Some people dont understand how much it costs to get set up in the country!!
Stuart in MN
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Wire is expensive these days...I don't have the figures in front of me here at home, but I'm pretty sure that if you had to pay an electrical contractor to run that underground cable it would have been more than $17/foot.
Kirby
Member
Just finishing up a detached garage/shop(1100 sq. feet). My rural electric coop came out and estimated the cost to run 200 amp service 140' from our transformer to a new meter base...a little over $2000. I pay $120 up front, then sign a contract for service for at least 4 years at a minimum of $44/mo. regardless of how much I use; I use $20, I pay $44... I use $55, I pay $55. After 4 years it reverts to whatever you consume. They did have to bore under the driveway, and they us 4/0 aluminum, I believe...about $3.50 a foot at Home Depot. Still have to pay the plumber to run water to it. $$$ never ends. Good luck, Kirby
Ezzie
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400' of primary overhead (2 poles), 130' of secondary underground to a 200A meter base (250MCM aluminum), all inspections, guys, etc. $5,600 to the electrician and $2,000 to the electrical utility and I had to supply the underground duct with pull string.
330' of 1" natural gas line - $700 including the meter - I had to supply everything from the meter on.
330' of 1" natural gas line - $700 including the meter - I had to supply everything from the meter on.
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logical
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I said I "kinda remember" it was the gas...I'll check my files tommorrow.I would have borrowed my neighbors directional boring machine for the weekend and went under the road to make the distance less than 100 feet.
Interesting you thought the gas was a shocker, my gas line run (100feet with the first 60 feet being free) was only $125 and they did bore under the road.
Tscott
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Power companies have a lot of overhead, no pun intended. It is very expensive to do what we do, especially if you are run badly. A lot of them are by the way. I work for a coop, and we will do overhead power for basically free ($150 new service fee and a $9 a month fee for the meter and of course the cost of the power you use every month) and we expect to recoup that cost outlay in 30 years or so. We do charge for underground service or underground primary if we install the wire or conduit, mainly because it costs almost 3 times what overhead power would cost to build. Typically, if the customer installs conduit for us then we will do the underground power for free.
Tom
Tom
Palmetto
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We are de-regulated here in Texas, so it makes it a royal PIA.
I guess I don't have it too bad but was just shocked when I got that bill. A lesson to anyone else, when they tell you there will be an additional charge for distances over X feet, ask what that charge is if for no other reason than to avoid the sticker shock.
boiler7904
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If that's the Com Ed that services most of the suburbs of Chicago, I'm not surprised. I have a commercial job now where they wanted rounghly $30k to run about 700 ft not including the transformer.
Just out of curiosity, how long did it take to get your service installed from the date you sent in the application?
Just out of curiosity, how long did it take to get your service installed from the date you sent in the application?
Bib Overalls
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COOP here charged $1.00 per foot for the wire and we had to provide the trench. That was 10 years ago. Suspect the per foot price has gone up since then. Overhead is free if they don't have to extend a line.
rwhite692
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Yeah, you got off relatively cheap...
I just paid PG&E $4300 to convert my house from overhead service feed, to underground. (400A service). All the underground conduit was already in place. total run of about a hundred feet of wire. They were on-site for all of about an hour.
Nothing I could do, though. They have a complete monopoly on everything from the meter, out. Had to pay PG&E in full, up front, as well.
Time from submission of request, to job completion, was about 5 months. (To be fair, though, It would have been much shorter if I didn't already have a working service.)
I just paid PG&E $4300 to convert my house from overhead service feed, to underground. (400A service). All the underground conduit was already in place. total run of about a hundred feet of wire. They were on-site for all of about an hour.
Nothing I could do, though. They have a complete monopoly on everything from the meter, out. Had to pay PG&E in full, up front, as well.
Time from submission of request, to job completion, was about 5 months. (To be fair, though, It would have been much shorter if I didn't already have a working service.)
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