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ken56 wrote:2100 to hook it up?? After you do the work trenching and running the wire? OMG. I'm in the wrong business. No way you should pay that much for this. Granted, the wire will be your biggest expense in this. You buy all the material and save yourself from his markup. Does he think he has a fish on his line? Hooking it up will take him 20 minutes. You do it yourself and go to dinner with the money saved. SMH.
I read the post that the OP would supply the material, the electrician would supply the labor to hook up and lay wire and conduit. A docent electrician should be able to do that in 8 hours or less. $2,100 / 8 = $262.5 per hour, yep in the wrong line of work!!!
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midnightsadie wrote:while your doing this up grade to 50amp during the summer you might need two ac units.or upgrade your rv in the future,
EXACTLY!!!!!!!
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I’ll add, you must have some really really tough soil conditions if you’re going to get an excavator to plow in some direct bury or a little conduit.
But the answer is the same. You aren’t knowledgeable enough to do this DIY unless you have a buddy or someone who understands what to do helping you.
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StirCrazy wrote:
I don't even look at aluminum wire, here the rules for using it are such a pain it isn't worth it. plus it has a higher maintence factor so if your fine with that you could save money but it isn't much cheaper up here.
The only issue there ever WAS with aluminum, was the terminations. Pretty much all breakers and outlets are rated four Al/Cu now a days !
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Mobile Home Feeder (MHF) cable is aluminum and can be direct buried. If you are going to run conduit, use single strand THWN.
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opnspaces
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I'm an RV.net professional and nothing more.
I'm agreeing with the others that based on your posts you really should hire an electrician to do the hookup and make sure you have an adequate size wire. If you have Yelp in your area search for electrician and then click on the "Request a quote" link and put in your request.
"Installing a 30 amp 125 volt RV outlet 250 feet away from main panel I will provide the trenching and materials. Paying for your expertise regarding trench depth, wire gauge etc plus to do the final hookup."
It will go out to multiple people and somebody it bound to text you some kind of quote.
Where I live trenching is about 10 dollars a foot. So I can see him quoting 2,500 for the trench alone. Call an equipment rental place and see what it costs to rent a trencher for 4 hours. Around here that's $75. If it's just plain ground with no pavers or concrete in the way you can have it trenched in under an hour. But look at the whole picture. Do you have to go through a wall, is there a sidewalk, a water line, a tree with big roots or a sprinkler system in the way?
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opnspaces wrote:But look at the whole picture. Do you have to go through a wall, is there a sidewalk, a water line, a tree with big roots or a sprinkler system in the way? Don't forget 811.
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True, call before you dig and make sure there are no utilities in the way that you are not aware of.
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opnspaces wrote:True, call before you dig and make sure there are no utilities in the way that you are not aware of. 811 is an odd service around here. The electric utility won't locate on private property, but the internet provider will, and I lucked out that they would locate the power to my garage. My water utility won't do PP either, and of course nobody has UG utility schematics.
Not a big help.
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2oldman wrote:opnspaces wrote:True, call before you dig and make sure there are no utilities in the way that you are not aware of. 811 is an odd service around here. The electric utility won't locate on private property, but the internet provider will, and I lucked out that they would locate the power to my garage. My water utility won't do PP either, and of course nobody has UG utility schematics.
Not a big help.
Interesting. here when you call 811 ONE person comes out and locates utilities on your property and easments. Water, electric, gas, cable/internet, POTS lines if they are still used,
Now the location is generally only the portion the utilities are responsible for, not additional stuff beyond the service.
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