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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
Assuming your house is underground fed, yeah honestly not much to know aside from any type of lubricants you may be allergic to. Hopefully the transformer feeding your house is close to your property, the further away the transformer is the more expensive it will be.
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Underground, directly across the street from a transformer...
"A project manager would be able to give you a more accurate assessment, but to answer your question about a ballpark figure... probably $30K-70K"
I was hoping for something in the $15-20K range based on some information I found online (even with the across the road aspect). I thought that there were a few other transformers near by that might not need to trench across the road. I went outside to double check and it turns out they're telecom boxes instead. Dammit.
I was thinking it might be a good "investment" since I read that if a transformer gets maxed out, they won't allow others to get a 200A upgrade and there's no plans to upgrade transformers for the foreseeable future. I'm still trying to decide whether to put the $1K deposit down to get a more accurate idea and confirm whether the guy on the phone was being serious, or if the guy on the phone gave me a ballpark "#### off" quote.