gonative1 OP t1_jeeupdp wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:35 PM

I’ll call 811, the ‘call before you dig number’. One obvious pitfall might be that if the service needs to be dug up for repair the building would be in the the way. However if it needed work I would simply dig around the building and replace the entire power wire. It would only be a few extra feet of wire. How expensive is wire these days? The alternative is to place the building a few hundred feet in another location. But it’s a lot more trenching and wire to run power and water to the building. Thanks

Barrrrrrnd t1_jef2ve3 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:29 PM

Call 811, then call your county or city permitting office. Tell them what you are doing and see what the code is. They are almost always super helpful a can answer your questions to make sure you aren’t going to have to tear the building down once they resurvey your grid with a satellite and discover it.

lurkandpounce t1_jef80gz wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:02 PM

>How expensive is wire these days?

Way more expensive in recent years due to short supplies of copper, but the cost of the wire is outstripped (yeah, I did that) by the cost of the trenching too.