Big surprise…

January 2, 2006

Today we received a late Christmas present from Scottish Water. The work to be carried out to connect our plot to the mains water was not including the roadworks necessary to bring the pipe across the B884 to our plot. This work can only be performed by a certified contractor and, of course, you guessed it, those contractors don’t come cheap. In our case we have to pay £867.79 to get this done.

Surely this can be done cheaper! That was my reaction at first as well. How much work could there be in crossing that road? Well, you CAN do it yourself, however if you do that you have to pay a yearly insurance premium of about £90.00 for the rest of your life.

After some thought and tooth crunching I decided we’d better use the certified contractor. When buying a plot make sure you have access to water without a need for crossing roads. If you do, add sufficient funds to your budget to allow Scottish Water to do the works through a certified contractor. By the way: from other people we know who are building on Skye the same applies to the foul water drainage. If you have both across the road, check out the consequences!!

Posted by roger | Filed Under House Project, Plot development 

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