Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Apr 23, 2014 4:03 pm Hi Everyone, I am building a new house on a battleaxe property. It is being built by a project home builder. The house is to be situated approximately 85 metres from the street. It is our responsibility to bring the electricity and water connections from street level to where the house will be built. For plumbing it is approximately 60 metres as it only need to reach within 20 metres of the house. The electricity and phone conduit is to go all the way to the meter box (approximately 85 metres). So far plumbing seems straight forward, although I’d be interested to know if anyone has had to install water services for a battleaxe and what sort of cost we might be looking at? However regarding the electrical connection, does anyone have any advice or stories of how they had the electricity connected by a level 2 electrician, especially for a battleaxe property? For example how was it connected? Did you have to wait until a certain stage of the construction had commenced? How much did it cost (including excavation) etc.? Are there tips and techniques to bring down the costs? Can 3 phase electricity be connected to a single phase meter box? And then can the meter box be upgraded at a later stage? Does anyone know about providing provision for the national broadband network? Is it necessary? One final question. Are these two installations (electrical and water) only permitted once the council has approved the house plans? Or are we able to install them before then? I have asked our builder, but it would be great to hear what others have to say. Especially from first hand experiences. Thank you in advance! Andrew Re: Building on a battleaxe block - connections question 2Apr 23, 2014 7:23 pm Where abouts are you building? I will have a look at our service costs when I get home. We had to run all of ours down the driveway with the added fun of it being a shared drive with existing concrete. The water, gas and electricity all went down at the same time. It was a logistical nightmare and held up our build a Fair bit. The whole thing was not cheap. Can't help you with phase 3 stuff. Re: Building on a battleaxe block - connections question 3Apr 24, 2014 9:59 am Hi, Thanks for your reply. We are building in Baulkham hills. Yeah it's quite a long driveway and already concreted. The only good things is that there is a gap between the fence and the concreted part approximately 400mm wide, which allows for a trench to be dug. So hopefully no need to tear up the concrete. Re: Building on a battleaxe block - connections question 5Apr 24, 2014 3:45 pm Yeah it certainly helps, but unfortunately it's still a fair distance. Approximately how long did you have to dig the trench? And did you have it done by one of the utility providers, or by an excavation contractor? Re: Building on a battleaxe block - connections question 6Apr 24, 2014 3:59 pm Hey I'm also building on a battle-axe currently and our site costs were astronomical in my opinion. Power run in was $1573 Water run in was $2031 plus $1515 to relocate it as it was in our proposed driveway Telstra charged us $931 to prelay the conduit and wiring. Sewer was another $482 to connect it to the front house I think? We were building on lawn as we are the only house so there was no existing concrete path that needed to be ripped up or anything. Also we did everything with Dales so I don't know at what stage you would be allowed to do what but looking at the sub division documents, if sub division is allowed, I think all connections would also be allowed prior to the build. https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=64434 Building our own custom design based on the Elwood by Dale Alcock Land settled - November Plans submitted to council - January Prestart - March Slab - 18 September Brickies - 23 October Re: Building on a battleaxe block - connections question 8Apr 28, 2014 12:59 pm Thanks for that. So was the power run in done by your own electrician or the builder's? Did Telstra come out to lay the conduit? Were these all trenched separately or all together? For us i am going to ask the electrician to do that, along with the electrical cabling. Re: Building on a battleaxe block - connections question 9Apr 28, 2014 1:41 pm You will also have to be careful as some councils won't let you lay a utility trench closer than 600mm to a side boundary. It also varies state by state. I'm pretty sure they can all be laid in the same trench but minimum distances between the services apply ( your sparky and plumber would know this ). Stewie Re: Building on a battleaxe block - connections question 10Apr 28, 2014 7:12 pm Yep was done through dale and Telstra also came out to do their bit. I'm not sure if they are together or separate, I think Telstra was desperate because they've had to set us up so we can connect to the nbn when that happens as well and that has all been done a while ago. https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=64434 Building our own custom design based on the Elwood by Dale Alcock Land settled - November Plans submitted to council - January Prestart - March Slab - 18 September Brickies - 23 October Re: Building on a battleaxe block - connections question 11Apr 28, 2014 9:16 pm Varies wildly from council to council, state to state as always. Couple years ago battle axe block 61m deep 18 wide, subdivided into two green titles. Sewer link up 6.5k ( this was just for the privilege, plumber charged 1.5 k to do the actual work ) Water, power and phone splits were approx another 3k All this prior to any titles being released, prior to building permits etc. block was level , clear , soil. Then builders provisional sum to bring all services to the rear house upon completion 18k. All of this was used but it nearly always is by builder, they don't give change back on provisional sums. Oh and driveway to rear house , not by builder, private contractor was another 10k. The joys of building Timeline Aug 08-Land Mar 09-Demo/Titles Sept 10-Handover No1 Sept 11-Handover No2 April 12-Sold No2 Aug 14-Land/Demo Jan 15-Slabs viewtopic.php?f=31&t=25736 Thanks for the insight! My plot is a new development so hopefully I won't have too much problem during build as everyone should be roughly building together. I also… 2 2479 Building Standards; Getting It Right! It's all good. You can get both wye piece and the coupling with or without thread. The cost difference is negligible and means the plumber only has to carry the single… 1 3814 4 3592 |