We install all kinds of temporary and permanent power poles in the GTA and Southern Ontario. Including construction site temporary lighting, weatherproof power distribution boards, outdoor branch circuits to trailers, tower cranes, and feed lines to other construction and portable equipment
If the existing service is underground or a trenching is required, please email us first with details on necessary digging, trenching, underground, or horizontal directional drilling work
If you need temporary power connected to an OVERHEAD power line, please read the following step-by-step instructions
If you didn't do it already, please call local Hydro (power supplier), tell that you need a temporary service pole and ask for an "Electrical Service Location Report", "Service Design", or "Service Layout". Such report or similar document (see sample at the bottom) contains instructions as to where the pole should be installed and how
Ask Hydro to attach and email it to you, then forward to us. If you got a paper document scan and email it to commercialelectricalcontractor@gmail.com together with any other docs and drawings (if any)
Include your name, company name, address, telephone number, and site address
IMPORTANT! Also please do include a link to google interactive street view like this https://goo.gl/9TzTs8
Please make sure that your link similar to https://goo.gl/9TzTs8 is showing the correct house, your particular property, building, construction site, address, or lot. And NOT something else
or
Email us pictures of the house, first of that particular property, building, construction site, address, or lot. Take second picture from across the street with your property/lot in the centre and adjacent houses/properties/lots, one to the left and one to the right.
And we will quote. In most cases it's from $2800 to $3200 for six month rental
For this price you will get one temporary service pole installed as per: your requirements that should coincide with Hydro specs, Canadian Electrical Code, building codes, ESA inspected/approved with a meter base, 100 amp panel, and two 15 Amp or 20 Amp 120 V GFCI receptacles
Let us know if you need any other receptacles or branch circuits of different volts and amps
We charge extra for every additional receptacle, breaker, plug, and circuit to the maximum of the 100 Amp panel capacity. We can add more 110 V, 110/220V, or 220V plugs and circuits of any type and Amp values. You have to tell us about your power consumption requirements now or 72 hrs before the installation
A $700 to $1000 nonrefundable guaranteed payment deposit must be maid in advance
After we finish the job, pass ESA inspection, the ESA sends an authorization to local Hydro, they hook-up the pole to power, you plug in your cords, tools, equipment, heaters, etc. and start using them. It could be a good idea to telephone Hydro 24 hours after installation and confirm the hook-up date
You must pay us in full with cash or a nonrefundable guaranteed payment right after the pole is installed, inspected, and approved
We will come and remove the pole for free after you are done or if you stop paying after the first 6 months
The following is a long, detailed and boring explanation how to do the same. If you need more details, please, go ahead and read it too
First, you have to call your local Hydro (electric power supplier) and ask for the "Electrical Service Location Report", "Service Layout" or "Service Design", a sample is given at the bottom. Such report or similar document issued by the electric power supplier in the area contains instructions as to where the temporary electrical service pole should be installed and how
The actual name of the report varies from town to town. The essence is the same
NOTE: Oakville and a couple of other other utilities do not issue such reports, making the installation a bit more complicated and longer. We could charge $200 to $400 more
Once the document is obtained, make sure the height of the pole is specified in the report. If it is NOT, call Hydro again and ask See sample at the bottom
It is now our "how Hydro wants us to do it" guide. We have to install the pole exactly the same way as Hydro wants us to
First, you have to call your local Hydro (electric power supplier) and ask for the "Electrical Service Location Report", "Service Layout" or "Service Design", a sample is given at the bottom. Such report or similar document issued by the electric power supplier in the area contains instructions as to where the temporary electrical service pole should be installed and how
The actual name of the report varies from town to town. The essence is the same
NOTE: Oakville and a couple of other other utilities do not issue such reports, making the installation a bit more complicated and longer. We could charge $200 to $400 more
Once the document is obtained, make sure the height of the pole is specified in the report. If it is NOT, call Hydro again and ask See sample at the bottom
It is now our "how Hydro wants us to do it" guide. We have to install the pole exactly the same way as Hydro wants us to
- forward or scan it and make sure that all scanned pages and all attached docs are of good quality and legible
- email it/them to us commercialelectricalcontractor@gmail.com
- in your email please also specify whether or not the pole location is accessible for a large and heavy auger truck. It must be free of any obstacles like ditches, trees, bushes, flower beds, large rocks, structures, snow, etc. The ground should NOT be soft so the truck doesn't get stuck, subzero winter or dry summer are preferable times. Same applies to a three meter radius around the future pole location. It is customers' sole responsibility to clear the path and make sure there are no obstacles and the surface is firm to hold the heavy truck. Please confirm all these points in your email
- please clearly mark the spot as per Hydro specs (place a stick or ask a person to stand there) and email us two or more pics of the exact pole location and around, taken from different sides of the property. And one or two pictures taken from a distance and showing the street overhead power line and the property or its part closest to that line. Remember, three more images is better than one less. We quote after viewing the pictures and docs that you provided
- email it/them to us commercialelectricalcontractor@gmail.com
- in your email please also specify whether or not the pole location is accessible for a large and heavy auger truck. It must be free of any obstacles like ditches, trees, bushes, flower beds, large rocks, structures, snow, etc. The ground should NOT be soft so the truck doesn't get stuck, subzero winter or dry summer are preferable times. Same applies to a three meter radius around the future pole location. It is customers' sole responsibility to clear the path and make sure there are no obstacles and the surface is firm to hold the heavy truck. Please confirm all these points in your email
- please clearly mark the spot as per Hydro specs (place a stick or ask a person to stand there) and email us two or more pics of the exact pole location and around, taken from different sides of the property. And one or two pictures taken from a distance and showing the street overhead power line and the property or its part closest to that line. Remember, three more images is better than one less. We quote after viewing the pictures and docs that you provided
Pictures eliminate the site visit necessity and allow us to offer $150 to $250 lower prices than competition!
In most cases we ask for pics of the property taken by you or a link to the address google map (street view) like this showing the specific site, the house, lot, or your particular property. We neither do free visits, nor free on-site consultations
- specify whether the existing overhead hydro supply line or suspended distribution power wires are located on the same side or across the street from the temporary pole
- how many 110V 15Amp GFCI plugs do you need? Do you need any other receptacles of different volts and amps?
- include address of the house, lot or property and your name + phone number. We will call you with the price. Check your email as well
- get and have valid locates or those "call before you dig" papers. During the hot season it takes two weeks or so and five or so days in winter to get the locates
- you will get a quote within 24 hours. Or the latest, within 36 hours after submitting all the necessary docs, pics and info to us
- you will pay a non-refundable deposit when you are ready to proceed. After the payment cheque is cleared in the bank we will apply for the locates and install the pole within five days after getting them
- off season we need five business days after we have received the deposit. In summer it could take us up to three weeks to do the job
- we will call for the ESA inspection, the pole and our work will be inspected by the Electrical Safety Authority, usually the same day. ESA will call Hydro and ask them to install the meter and connect power. Hydro does that usually within 24 hrs. Most poles are installed, inspected and connected to the power within 36 hrs from the moment we arrived to the site
Any delays associated with the ESA, Hydro and/or getting the locates are not our responsibility!
- Hydro charges its own fee from $800 + HST to $2500 + HST depending of the work involved. We have nothing to do with that charge
Please make sure you emailed us all the info we are asking for above. We would NOT be able to quote if details and the scope of work were not known
This is a sample of a typical email we would like to receive from you. Copy, paste, edit and email it to us together with your documents and pictures
I am looking for an electrical contractor to install a temporary electrical service pole
Could you do this job for me at this address please ????????
I have attached the Electrical Service Location Report specifying height of the pole which is ?? feet
and
I attached 4 pics that I have taken following your instructions
Pole location is accessible for your large and heavy auger truck. I cleared a three meter radius around the future pole location and it is now free of any obstacles. I removed trees, bushes, flower beds, rocks, structures, snow, etc. And I made the surface horizontal, leveled, flat and firm to hold the heavy truck
The overhead line is located across the street from the house. The shortest obstacle free distance, for the wire suspended in the air, from the future service pole location to the overhead street power line is ??? feet
I need two 110V 20Amp GFCI plugs like on this picture, I do not need any other receptacles of different volts and amps
or
I need four 110V 15Amp GFCI plugs and ??? additional receptacles of ??? volts and ??? amps
My name is ..... , Co. name is ..... , phone number ........
Please give me a quote, if accepted I am willing to pay the non-refundable deposit and I need the temporary electrical service pole installed ASAP or on (give date)
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