An important part of building a home on a section is getting water and electricity. Water is easy. We will collect rainwater into two huge tanks. This is a fairly common practice out here. We certainly get enough rain in the winter and two big tanks should see us through most dry seasons. We could drill a bore... and would love to... but the expense is a bit prohibitive at this point. (Foreshadowing...)
Now, electricity to the building site. We had thought that would be relatively easy also. Not so! When we originally looked at the property, we were told that there was electricity cabled to the end of the driveway and down by the damn. Great. Fine. Unfortunately, this information was wrong. (*sigh.*) For most rural property that is subdivided, electricity needs to be taken to the property boundary (by council law). However, in our case, the property owner at the time was somehow able to get an exception! There is telephone cabling to the two spots that we were told about, but the electricity ends further up the road... meaning quite a financial difference in getting power to our building site. (Arg!!)
We feel stupid, as if we did something wrong... but, like I said, we DID look into this. Unfortunately, we actually believed what we were told... which was wrong? This is so incredibly frustrating! I mean, if you can't believe the professionals around you, who can you believe?! Perhaps we should have had a rep from the electricity company come out to verify that info? It didn't seem necessary at the time.
We've looked into what we should do about this. There may be a couple of different legal routes that we could take... but what a pain in the butt! Besides, we might just end up getting very little in return for our effort (when you take into account legal fees). Either way, we still need power to the building site. So, we'll just have to bite the bullet and get it done.
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