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Right my new garage is ordered and winging it's way to me
My existing one is on a 2.5mm twin n earth and its strung on a wire/cable. Proper shabby but it's only running lighting.
I want to be using a welder etc in the garage so this needs updating.
However.... my power comes in down a wooden pylon 8ft from the garage. And I'm wondering how much Scottish Power would charge to connect a new meter up that way I'm not running meters of cable from the house
Anyone any ideas?
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Wouldn't any savings from having a separate power supply (if there were any, I wouldn't bet on it) be eclipsed by having to pay two lots of standing charge for ever?
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Thousands
Its going to cost a few quid in cable as it stands. Plus routing it would be a bitch
Was just a thought that crossed my mind as the pylons so close.
Thought it would be a couple of grand.
Well average price for a new install is £1,600 according to check a trade.. which won't include the consumer unit and everything beyond..
A drum of 50m of 6mm SWA is £150.00.
So unless your house is a long way from the garage it's going to be considerably cheaper to just put a new feed from the house.
J
Its 40 ft, but I'm on rock so cant dig a trench.
Current supply hangs from the eaves to the pylon and then the garage. Which I dont think is ideal.
Not sure what your describing. Does the pole supply the house and garage, but with just 2.5mm2 cable to the garage from the pole? If so, where is the meter for the garage supply now?
Having asked for a second connection across 1m of pavement and 1m of front grass before, I've this as my abiding memory of the energy supply companies.
(£3.6k and 6 months wait btw)
Meter is at the front of the house.
Garage is in the back garden next to the supply pole. Pole feeds house only.
Garage is supplied by shonky wiring from the house it's like a washing line....
It was a thought as the pole is 6ft from the garage. Presumed it would be easier and safer just to drop a new supply in.
I'm not sure you're allowed a second metered connection for a domestic property (based on recent experiences with SPEN).
Interesting. Could be a moot point then.
I can see me having to go external armour cable.
I had a quote recently for my garage as its on the other side of the road. ~1600 is about right and that is with a mains pylon ~3ft from the garage, the further they have to go, the higher the price.
then would have had to wire it internally as well, plus standing charges etc.
instead I installed solar lighting and bought some more battery power tools. maybe not an option for welding though.
If you can feed off the house, do that. I have a supply up the a studio that is ~40m run of armoured cable, it runs up the fence other than a short trench under an access path at the back.
I’m not ScottishPower but when I ran the connections design teams for another DNO I was quiet clear - one property, one supply. And I didn’t limit that to domestic supplies.
There are reasons for this, mainly around safety and power flows on the network, they’re not huge and in 99 cases out of a hundred it wouldn’t matter. But we have millions of connected customers. So we worry.
Note that is one point of supply. You might have multiple connections, multiple cables, at that point of supply. But it’s only one point of supply.
PS - other side of the road might well count as a second property to us.
I'm not an electrician, but the one who wired up my garage recommended 10mm SWA for the main supply from the house*. That about 40ft run. I told him I wanted to use a welder etc. Might as well pay extra now for materials and be future proof.
* which was peachy as a mate had just over that much left on a drum from a job he did