What do you think an extra line will cost?
Yesterday, the Electric co-op finally bored/buried my new power line...that was supposed to be done 2 years ago, when most of my neighbors had their's buried/trenched during the street/utility re-construction. I got them to pull an extra line for power to my garage (see paragraph below)... the extra line was pulled with the new service line and my cable TV line...both ends of the extra line are currently unconnected and just coiled up on the ground, I'll connect them next spring (or have a electrician connect the one end to a meter box, if possible?there is three meter boxes strung together and the runs going out of them). I wonder what that extra line will cost? (material cost) They used about 125 feet of cable. They used 2/2 since I plan on putting in a 60 amp box.
The new service pedestal is next to my garage, but the meter is on my house 80 feet away. I buried a line 25 years ago from the house fuse box to the garage, and while it's has worked, I wasn't done correctly and was probably undersized, since I do a little bit of welding...I've blown fuses when the Air compressor kicks in while I am welding. I plan to make the connections in the spring, as I should first, re-organize the garage and change much of the existing wiring, because the new breaker box will be in a new location...and I want to change most of the Lighting.
Thanks for any comments you might have.