Electricity board sting for new post installation

[OscarMike]

It seems that many of my recent threads have been about being royally shafted, I'm getting used to it now and even carry my own KY, so here is another for you ...

Can those in the know tell me what it costs for a concrete post, a few clamps, and 10 meters of cable?

Hold that, the cable I know, 25 millimeter aluminum core (which is what they use) is 15 baht per meter.

Now then, ten points for those that can tell me what the electricity board want to charge for the above!

[STEVE G]

I could tell you if I'd counted the number of posts! We recently had a couple of hundred metres of posts and wiring installed for I think about 90,000bt.

[hhfarang]

All I know is that after reading Super Joe's post on another thread about the cost of getting your own small 3 phase transformer installed I felt like a fool. We were the first ones to build in our neighborhood and we had to run electricity from the nearest edge of Nong Khae village several years ago. Three or four poles, the wire, and the small transformer to handle our house cost me a quarter of a million baht... yes, that's right 250,000 baht!

[Super Joe]

Can those in the know tell me what it costs for a concrete post, a few clamps, and 10 meters of cable?
Hold that, the cable I know, 25 millimeter aluminum core (which is what they use) is 15 baht per meter.

The electric company 'can' charge 3k installed per concrete post for the smaller one's, like you get within a development, and 5k installed for larger one's on government roads. But... three different managers in there will probably all charge different prices, especially for farangs, as I fear you're about to reveal.

One of our first builds was our own house and all this malarky started coming thick and fast, at the time it did put a major dampener on the experience, until it was all over and we moved in. But how's it been overall building your own, the whole thing been a bit of a nightmare? just a few odd 'tuck-ups' that have taken the gloss off it? You pleased with how it's turned out overall though?

I could tell you if I'd counted the number of posts! We recently had a couple of hundred metres of posts and wiring installed for I think about 90,000bt.

[/quote]Posts can typically be 20 metres apart. So 1 every 7 floors if a condominium.


SJ

[OscarMike]

One of our first builds was our own house and all this malarky started coming thick and fast, at the time it did put a major dampener on the experience, until it was all over and we moved in. But how's it been overall building your own, the whole thing been a bit of a nightmare? just a few odd 'tuck-ups' that have taken the gloss off it? You pleased with how it's turned out overall though?

Good to know I'm not the only one getting tucked up. The building experience has been an eyeopener for sure, overall not the major nightmare that was expected, but it is annoying that the biggest ripoffs and scams all come from government departments (Tessaban, water dept, land office, electricity dept etc etc) - not the actual builders or foremen. And here was I thinking that Mr Abhisit was cleaning up corruption!

[pitsch]

The electricity dept. in Sam Roi Yod wanted 3 million Baht for 10 posts. 2 years later they made it for 300 000 Baht! But in these 2 years we had to pay nearly the double price for electricity with a provisional line.

[PeteC]

The electricity dept. in Sam Roi Yod wanted 3 million Baht for 10 posts. 2 years later they made it for 300 000 Baht! But in these 2 years we had to pay nearly the double price for electricity with a provisional line.

What a deal, $10,000 per post down to $1,000. In my book if someone pays for a post, it belongs to them and they should be able to charge rental to anyone else who hangs a line of any type on it. Would be interesting to see the Thai documents to be signed as I can imagine that the paying party has no future rights at all. Just look at what the law school students here are missing out on with no case studies like this. Pete

[pitsch]

There were no papers. The money was given to the boss just under the table without receipt.

[PeteC]

This entire topic has to go down in the books as the most flagrant rip off of foreigners ever. I bet there has never been a Thai who has paid more than a box of beer/whiskey or a few thousand baht at most.

Newcomers beware if you decide to build in the hinterland. Pete

[Super Joe]

Yeah, I found them about the worse for new installations, but elec boards are always a law unto themselves, they used to pi$$ everyone around in UK with their installation work ind./commercial projects.

The elec office (well one of the install manager's) has been useful another way, as the missus got to know him when he was doing installations for us, he asked her if she wanted to cap monthly 'bill' for our house at a figure 3k under what it was averaging. He comes to house with bill every month and we pay it +1k. He changes meter over every few months apparently with one from his boot.

We've built a couple of small rental places behind us over the years, and got builder to run feed off to them with HomePro meters, thought it'd be rude not too. Judging by the bill, one of them big computer printouts with them tear-off edges, I don't expect the monthly 'bill', really is.

Even when you think you're getting a result... they're ahead on goal difference!! Good lad

SJ

[kendo]

Nice one SJ, when we built our house in Surin we paid more per unit with our tempory meter, then paid 4,500 for the guys to come around and install the perment one with a concrete pylon took them 15 minuits start to finish, shame it was more than three hours to sort the paper work out at the office the lady's where more interested in slicing up mango and passing it around.

Kendo.