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Follow up question: quote for connection and local supply issue

Morgan Phillips
Thanks for the fantastic replies I had to my previous question, helping me to understand the supply locally and enabling me to successfully push back on the quote/plan provided. 


I now have one further query.


WPD say that if they were upgrading the local network they would overlay the current 95mm wcon cable with a 185mm wcon cable, but that this alone would not be sufficient to allow for my property to be connected to the local network. Instead, they said that for me to be connected, a 300mm wcon cable needs to be laid, and they want me to fund the difference between the 185 cable and the 300 cable. 


As they were less than scrupulously transparent in their previous quote, I would like to check if anybody has any thoughts on the veracity of this? Why would upgrading to a 185mm cable not allow sufficient capacity to add my supply? Why would they not, if doing an upgrade and presumably incurring significant cost, simply upgrade to future proof the local supply with a 300mm2 cable?


I'm particularly concerned that what they have said about replacing the 95mm2 cable with a 185mm2 cable (that this would not be sufficient to connect me to the supply) is untrue.

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    AJJewsbury:
    less (fewer, I can never remember!)

    in my head ...


    less for things you measure (continuously variable quantities)


    fewer for things you count (things that can only be integers)


    So fewer eggs might mean more egg, if you had a smaller number of much larger eggs.


    If I were to drink fewer bottles of beer, I would weigh less; similarly, if I were to drink less beer, I would weigh fewer stones. ?


    Back to the real question. I think that we are all agreed that the old cable could potentially be used, but it does depend upon its being in serviceable condition.



    Morgan Phillips:

    Thanks Mike, that's really interesting and helpful. I agree, I think they are trying to wear me down with vagueness and hope that the delay of dragging these answers out of them will force me to accept their offer so as to get the supply in situ by the time the build is due to begin.

    Don't be rushed. Perhaps you need a construction site supply, but that is certainly not of the same magnitude. Surely you need your definitive supply only near to the end of construction?
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    AJJewsbury:
    less (fewer, I can never remember!)

    in my head ...


    less for things you measure (continuously variable quantities)


    fewer for things you count (things that can only be integers)


    So fewer eggs might mean more egg, if you had a smaller number of much larger eggs.


    If I were to drink fewer bottles of beer, I would weigh less; similarly, if I were to drink less beer, I would weigh fewer stones. ?


    Back to the real question. I think that we are all agreed that the old cable could potentially be used, but it does depend upon its being in serviceable condition.



    Morgan Phillips:

    Thanks Mike, that's really interesting and helpful. I agree, I think they are trying to wear me down with vagueness and hope that the delay of dragging these answers out of them will force me to accept their offer so as to get the supply in situ by the time the build is due to begin.

    Don't be rushed. Perhaps you need a construction site supply, but that is certainly not of the same magnitude. Surely you need your definitive supply only near to the end of construction?
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