Browse Forums Building A New House Re: At what stage is electricity, gas, NBN/phone connected? 10Apr 24, 2019 10:00 pm Doozer1905 No that wont happen, you have to register your development with Testra Smart Communities even if it's in an NBN area and can take up to 6 months 6 months for them to reconnect or 6 months for them to just detach the current cable before I can demolish the house? Re: At what stage is electricity, gas, NBN/phone connected? 11Apr 25, 2019 5:54 pm pumpkin11 brokenstick If your street is NBN enabled, you can order it to be installed the day after handover. Mine took 2 weeks from date of order. My builder connected the electricity for themselves to use during the build and paid the bill. At handover I had the option of continuing with the same provider or switching to one of my choice. It was all very simple and smooth. This was for a kdr in an old inner city area Also, how long did your services normally take to disconnect from the old place. Telstra giving me the full on run around atm, and the power company not being much fun either. Power and gas took about 2 weeks each (they said to allow a month). I also had to do an overhead to underground power conversion which took about a month (this doesn't affect the supply so can be done anytime) and cost $3,500 At the time of demolition we didn't have NBN and had Optus cable for Internet, and no home phone. I just cancelled the Internet and cut the cable. I didn't do anything with Telstra, just cut the old phone line (which I wasnt using anyway) NBN via HFC was rolled out to my street during my build, which was perfect timing The fastest thing a builder will do is bank your cheque, those systems work perfectly with lightning speed, everything else is slow burn. Just the way it is. 1 9175 1 4948 Thanks for much mate. I see that you do cabinets before flooring. For timber flooring, for most parts it's fine because it's got base plates, and for door jabs you can… 7 13578 |