Hello everyone,
We contacted PEA to connect electricity in our land (15/45 amp). The house is now built, we are asking for a permanent meter and the installation to the house (about 200 meter from the public road, quite long as the access road is about 170 meter long). The officer had a look on the Chanote, another guy came to see our land one week before. He said the first step was to contact a private contractor to install the cables/poles between the house and the land entrance (public road). Then, PEA would check that work, and install the meter.
Even though I often heard it was better to contact a private company to deal with the installation on the land, cheaper and in some cases more reliable, I was very surprised, especially because the neighbor did the same last year, and PEA installed the 2 poles necessary on his land. My questions:
1. What might be the reason to automatically give the job to a contractor and not trying to get the job done by themselves? Anything to worry about this practise?
3. We will meet the contractor next week, so to check the quotation he would give, what is roughly the cost to install electricity along 200 meters. We live in the countryside in Chiang Rai province. What are the other costs? because they just told my wife the meter cost just something like 800 bahts but I always heard of a deposit of about 30,000 bahts.
Thanks for your help ????