Hi everyone,
I'm new here, this is my first post.
My wife and I are planning an ownerbuild property on 2 1/2 acres in Kinglake West.
I have designed the concept plans and had all of the relevant surveys and reports undertaken at the block.
I was hoping my first post would be a positive one this early on in build but it is not.
The block has no power to it. I believe the agent had verbally advised that it did but my fault for not double checking. The owner of the block (my soon to be new neighbour) advised last month that there wasnt power but he'd been quoted about $1,800 a few years ago to run the power from the pit outside his house up to the block.
So 8 weeks ago I applied to SP Ausnet to get a quote to run the power to the corner of our block.
Expecting no more that $3,000, I was horrified when the offer arrived today at $25,000 (of which SP Ausnet KINDLY offered to pay $3,500 of!) so we are left with $21,500 to pay. They said that the LV cable needs upgrading from the closest power pole (about 200m away) and cannot simply be ran from the pit.
Has anyone else had an experience like this? Considering we only paid $170,000 for the block, this extra cost has come as a massive shock.