Hi all,
We are looking to knockdown rebuild our property, however our neighbour's power line runs across the front of our property and builders are suggesting it to be relocated either into a pit or to another pole.
I have spoke to my electricity distributor and they have referred me to Zinfra, who have told me to speak to an electrician. I have spoken to an electrician and he says the easiest thing to do is to have the line relocated to the pole across the street and to speak with my electricity distributor, so I am now back at square one!
If anyone has any experience, advice or can recommend an electrician for the job (Victoria, eastern suburbs) I will be forever grateful!
We had very similar situation (Sydney build) and installed a private power pole on the corner of the neighbours property for their line. Its high enough for trucks to get under and cranes to make deliveries. Our neighbour power pole on LHS of pic
Do not do this. A knock down up the road did this and the build has been shut down for weeks. This was after the tiger tails were installed on a Sunday by emergency crew because for 3 days there were no tiger tails so live wires were going through the scaffolding. Site still shut down. My SS was stunned when we told him so he took a walk to take pics.
Wow
denali ! Those wires going to the scaffolding is insane! I'm surprised they let it get that far before works got stopped.
With the power pole you put up for the neighbour, what happened after you finished your build? Were they able to run the line over your property again? Or did you have to put their line into a pit underground?
Our relationship with the owner is good, but I'm not sure if I want to impose putting a pole on their property. Your conversation with your neighbour must have gone well given they allowed the pole on their property. The large trees to sort of hide it must have helped?
$2.5k for the pole solution is pretty good! Right now the most direct solution is to pit their line so we're looking at a $7k pit (though that can be shared), then another $3k to do the conduit into their meter box, but their meter box has asbestos so will need to have to pay to have that removed, and then misc fees for the permit and inspections.
I'm also wondering how low your neighbours’ wires are at their property and do they meet today’s standards? Our neighbours were about 2.5mtrs so lower that standard so we used that as an reason they should to be updated and moving them to 4mtr pole.
This I'm unsure of, I'm in the process of finding an electrician for the measurement, but we've had different builder site inspectors come out and some say they can build with it there and maybe use spotters on a as-needed basis.