Poles apart

Finally received the quotation from Central Networks for our electricity connection yesterday.  Their pole is directly across the road from the barn, so we struggle to see how they've come up with a price of £9,200 !!  I phoned them today to query it.  They explained that they have to upgrade our end of the village to accommodate our power demand, and that they've routed it underground across the road, along the verge then round our driveway to avoid going under the boundary wall.  I said our builder will put the ducts under the wall, so it can come straight through that way.  So now they're going to revise their quote, within the next 15 days, and hopefully reduce it.  I even asked whether it could be overhead from the pole (like our neighbours both sides).  Afetr a discussion with her manager, she said it was possible, but would probably be more expensive and delay the quote as they'd need a site visit.

At least we can see a bit of progress on the barn, as the builders have taken the roof off the old lean-to and taken down a few of the walls - so we can see the buttresses in the open now, and they're still holding up the leaning wall.  Still got to take down the old block wall; if the leaning wall is still in place after that it'll be a relief.