Service connection costs - long driveway

mesophyte · Oct 17, 2013 3:26 pm

I'm looking for some rough guidance on service connection costs (the whole crop: electricity, water, sewer, gas, phone, cable) when dealing with a longer connection than usual (~60m driveway). I'm assuming one way to minimize costs is to have them all run at the same time in a common trench - is this something a builder can do or do the utilities need to be present for drawing their respective connections?

Also AFAIK gas piping can be expensive; given the distance, I wonder if I would be better off with using bottled gas?

Or should I just talk to all individual providers separately? Would they even give connection quotes?

nully · Oct 17, 2013 6:20 pm

Not sure what state you are in. We are in WA and the prices we have are:

Gas (more than 20m) @ $55/m
Power $55/m
Water $18/m
Sewer $43/m

Gas would be cheaper if we dug our own trench (around $22/m)

I'm guessing some of this would vary a lot by state.

mesophyte · Oct 17, 2013 6:41 pm

Should've mentioned the state, yes - in VIC.

Can't imagine the prices differ by an order of magnitude or anything, so that's a useful guide, thanks for that.