New House Cost of Underground Electrical Pit

Doboman on 15/10/2018 - 20:01
Last edited 16/10/2018 - 12:38 by 1 other user

Hi All,

This is question for who ever building a Newhouse and have done the underground Electrical pit. I'm in the situation on knock down and rebuild house, and need to get the underground electrical pit done.

As I'm in Victoria - Monash council, I had to get a quote from United Energy and the total cost was $5000, which I did not expect.

My question -

How much did it cost you ?
Has anyone shared the pit with your neighbour and share the cost , then how did you do it?
Do we have to go with United Energy or is there other company who does this?

Many Thanks
Dobo

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  Jnr202 on 15/10/2018 - 21:07

  +1

  We are in Altona and ours cost $2200. Our builder also built 3 townhouses down the road and it cost him $5000, we only built 2. He also told me he did a job that cost the owner $13,000 for a pit.

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    EightImmortals on 16/10/2018 - 07:23

    It's just a trench, why so expensive?

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      coolsteps on 16/10/2018 - 07:50

      offer to dig the trench yourself save some money

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      Jnr202 on 16/10/2018 - 09:22

      I think it depends on pit position, and electrical poll position. That $13,000 job was along way from a power pole and had a 100m driveway.

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        EightImmortals on 16/10/2018 - 09:42

        That makes more sense, 100 meters is a long dig and if memory serves, power cables have to be 1.5M deep? Would be good to know how far the OP has to dig I guess. But if he's only 5-10 meters from the road then seems a bit pricey to me.

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          whooah1979 on 18/10/2018 - 00:27

          @EightImmortals:

          power cables have to be 1.5M deep?

          nobody is going to trench 100m @ 1500mm on a residential property. 300mm to 450mm is the most common doc.

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    Doboman on 16/10/2018 - 10:24

    Thanks Jnr202 - I guess then its normal price. how long was you pit to electrical pole ?
    Did you share yours with Neighbor is that why $2200 ?

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      Jnr202 on 17/10/2018 - 22:14

      No didn't share, alot of pits going in around here. Pit to pole was 10m. Each council charges there own price.

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  TheBilly on 16/10/2018 - 20:07

  +1

  its the labour or machine hire, pit and conduit are cheap

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    [Deactivated] on 16/10/2018 - 22:58

    is it possible to get spare conduit installed? Eg for NBN or some other unforeseen future usuage (eg put security cameras on your boundary)

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      TheBilly on 17/10/2018 - 07:02

      Yes, generally but just need to let contractor know before starting, so they can modify to suit. Sometimes the 1 is enough. e.g. 50mm conduit and 10mm cable. But I think telstra has to be separate to power anyway.

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        [Deactivated] on 18/10/2018 - 00:13

        telsra copper does, but there is no need for fibre optic to be seperate.

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  coolsteps on 17/10/2018 - 11:07

  comms need to have a barrier from power its the law. for telecommunications its min 300m deep and 600mm deep for power in qld

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    whooah1979 on 18/10/2018 - 00:32

    for telecommunications its min 300m deep

    the doc requirements depends on lic location and the surface.

    600mm deep for power

    the deep in nsw may be found anywhere been 100mm to 600mm. most common is 300mm to 450mm.