ᐅ Utility connection pedestal in the garden vs. utility connection directly inside the utility room
Created on: 8 Jul 2020 14:32
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Hello everyone,
we are (hopefully) moving into a semi-detached house next autumn. It is located 50m (165 feet) from the street and main utility connection, situated in the second row.
For the electricity application, we now have to specify whether we want a connection pillar installed in the garden and roughly indicate its location, or if we prefer a connection directly in the utility room, in which case we need to submit the ground floor plan.
The topic of electrical installation for a new build is still quite confusing for me, and unfortunately, depending on whom I ask, I get different opinions.
The pillar should ideally be placed directly at the front boundary. Since we are having a back-to-back semi-detached house built, our plot starts right at the house. However, we cannot put the pillar in front before construction (it would be installed before the build to supply temporary construction power), as it wouldn’t survive the construction process. So it would have to be placed further inside the plot. According to an employee from the local electricity network company in Berlin, this does not make sense because there would be a main cable to the pillar and then two separate cables running back again to the utility room.
He also said that a connection directly into the utility room would not be significantly more expensive.
Acquaintances, however, say that there is an additional cost of about 2000€ for installing the connection in the utility room instead of a pillar.
What are your experiences? What is considered "state of the art"? Is a pillar even possible with our layout?
For reference: We are building on a slab foundation.
Maybe you can shed some light on this for me.
Best regards
we are (hopefully) moving into a semi-detached house next autumn. It is located 50m (165 feet) from the street and main utility connection, situated in the second row.
For the electricity application, we now have to specify whether we want a connection pillar installed in the garden and roughly indicate its location, or if we prefer a connection directly in the utility room, in which case we need to submit the ground floor plan.
The topic of electrical installation for a new build is still quite confusing for me, and unfortunately, depending on whom I ask, I get different opinions.
The pillar should ideally be placed directly at the front boundary. Since we are having a back-to-back semi-detached house built, our plot starts right at the house. However, we cannot put the pillar in front before construction (it would be installed before the build to supply temporary construction power), as it wouldn’t survive the construction process. So it would have to be placed further inside the plot. According to an employee from the local electricity network company in Berlin, this does not make sense because there would be a main cable to the pillar and then two separate cables running back again to the utility room.
He also said that a connection directly into the utility room would not be significantly more expensive.
Acquaintances, however, say that there is an additional cost of about 2000€ for installing the connection in the utility room instead of a pillar.
What are your experiences? What is considered "state of the art"? Is a pillar even possible with our layout?
For reference: We are building on a slab foundation.
Maybe you can shed some light on this for me.
Best regards
Tolentino schrieb:
We just want to put two columns on the property boundary Side by side? It might be more cost-effective to get one stronger connection for both parties and then split it accordingly.
Tolentino schrieb:
He believes that is probably not allowed.
But we will see if the network operator might suggest something like that...At least in Hamburg, this is completely normal. Entire rows of townhouses are supplied by a single box.
Well, they’re usually not really fully accessible anyway, since there’s often a fence in front of them. We’re not in the USA, where you typically find everything mounted right on the outside wall of the house.
But by the way, all those large telecom cabinets and electrical distribution boxes are generally placed at the roadside, and that usually works fine, even with vandalism.
But by the way, all those large telecom cabinets and electrical distribution boxes are generally placed at the roadside, and that usually works fine, even with vandalism.
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