Wow! That went fast! Update needed! Let's call this one Holly VS The Man.
Our Electrician was in touch to hook up our power so the builder's can, you know, use power tools and stuff. The current "run an extension cord from the neighbour's garage" set up wasn't really a long term plan. Our Electrician flicked us a wee email saying "please sign the attached form and I'll go ahead with the connection". Harmless enough, right? Unless you are the kind of people that actually READ forms before you sign them! And we are that kind of people!
The form was three pages long, written in legalese which meant a highlighter was necessary in order to make any kind of sense of it. But in a nutshell, it said "you have to get an Easement in Gross put on your title, and both your neighbours' titles, and get a surveyor to draw a pretty but expensive picture of the power line, and pay for all the legal costs and surveyor fees attached to this. Good luck, suckers!" Next stop: Google the legalities around "Easement in Gross"! Email all the Surveyors in town! Email our Property Lawyer (who basically said, "they got you over a barrel, suck it up"). Google PowerCO's own policies so I can quote them back at them. Find the email PowerCO provided us in late 2013 before we bought the section, which indicated we should have no issues connecting up to the power line, and made no mention of the requirement for an Easement in Gross. Then gather all the info and send two very long and detailed emails to PowerCO....
Our Electrician was in touch to hook up our power so the builder's can, you know, use power tools and stuff. The current "run an extension cord from the neighbour's garage" set up wasn't really a long term plan. Our Electrician flicked us a wee email saying "please sign the attached form and I'll go ahead with the connection". Harmless enough, right? Unless you are the kind of people that actually READ forms before you sign them! And we are that kind of people!
The form was three pages long, written in legalese which meant a highlighter was necessary in order to make any kind of sense of it. But in a nutshell, it said "you have to get an Easement in Gross put on your title, and both your neighbours' titles, and get a surveyor to draw a pretty but expensive picture of the power line, and pay for all the legal costs and surveyor fees attached to this. Good luck, suckers!" Next stop: Google the legalities around "Easement in Gross"! Email all the Surveyors in town! Email our Property Lawyer (who basically said, "they got you over a barrel, suck it up"). Google PowerCO's own policies so I can quote them back at them. Find the email PowerCO provided us in late 2013 before we bought the section, which indicated we should have no issues connecting up to the power line, and made no mention of the requirement for an Easement in Gross. Then gather all the info and send two very long and detailed emails to PowerCO....
A couple of stressful days later as Ben and I try to figure out where we are going to find a spare $3K to get our fricken power connected! The box that the neighbours are connected to is ACTUALLY ON OUR LAND, and yet we apparently can't connect to it without paying thru the nose first?? Then I receive the email from PowerCO: "I have spoken to my supervisor, and on this occasion we have decided to waive the Easement in Gross requirement". Say what? Waive? I like it when you waive! Thank you for waiving!
In other news.... the trestles for the roof are on, and the roof is going on this week! Whoop whoop! Skylights are cut out, looking good! It's bucketing down as I type this, hope it passes over quickly! No pics of the site cos Ben keeps them all on his camera. Grrrr!
Until next time!
In other news.... the trestles for the roof are on, and the roof is going on this week! Whoop whoop! Skylights are cut out, looking good! It's bucketing down as I type this, hope it passes over quickly! No pics of the site cos Ben keeps them all on his camera. Grrrr!
Until next time!