Not a good sign for construction in My area.

[Timothy]

There's a house up the street from me, $180K Beautiful, inside and out, worth easily double the asking price, Been on the market for years.  Furnace works fine and has been well maintained for the entire 80+ years it's been under that mound of asbestos. Knob and tube wiring is in excellent shape as well  

Sounds like my BIL's house.  He paid about 15 grand to remove his boiler.  The new one takes up about three square feet compared to the 6' diameter beheamoth that he got rid of.

[tombogan03884]

Sorry, I don't buy that about asbesto   there are federal laws that come into play about the transpertation and diposal.
  You can sell a home that has asbesto and/or lead paint here, you just have to disclose it. I delt with it all the time, as long as you don't mess with it, its fine.

there are alot of things you can do, does not make them legal. Tom, you paid for that hook up, every time you pay your power bill.

I guess I wasn't clear,  My Dad was 1800' from the last existing pole, He had to pay for everything from there to the house but they knocked off the cost of the first 300 feet, (might have been a senior discount) it was tacked onto his light bill $X per month, as others built on the road they got hit with a pro rated piece of the cost and his payments were lowered.

[david86440]

In Me and NH you can do all the work yourself only permits needed are building permits in most, but not all, towns,  Perculation test of the soil if you are going to have a septic system Leach bed and electrical have to be inspected. (Electric by town building inspector or Electric Co. before they will make the final hook up, You pay for everything from the last existing pole, first 300' are free. Leach bed has to be inspected by the the engineer who did the Perk test before you cover it. )

You are absolutely correct Tom.

The last house we had in Maine I did all the work my self including plumbing, heating, septic and electrical.  I even hauled most of the materials myself. I chose to sub out the concrete foundation, chimney and some brick work but I could have done that myself as well.
In order to get a construction loan the bank required that the building inspectors submit a letter stating that everything I was doing was being built to code and was being inspected on a regular basis.

The electric company at that time would provide one pole at no charge so I trenched out to where the pole was going and ran underground to that point. I provided the conduit and clamps and they made the connection at the pole.

After the town inspector signed off on the electrical they came back and set the meter.

[Timothy]

http://www.mass.gov/dep/air/asbguid.htm#Inquiries

The EPA defers to the MA regulations regarding asbestos removal and disposal.

It is strongly recommended but not required that a licensed abatement company be used for removal.  As to disposal, if it is properly wetted and double bagged, it can be disposed of in a MA landfill certified to accept it.  Twenty years ago, things were a bit more lax.

You are correct in that if it's in good shape and not disturbed, it can be left alone.  I was incorrect on that point.

[tombogan03884]

 When I was in the National Guard they made us give up the asbestos mitts for changing machine gun barrels. They made us triple bag them is trash bags, each one had to be wrapped in Duct tape and then the outer most one tied shut and marked "Hazardous Waste", then they replaced them with bright Yellow oven mitts   

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[TAB]

its actualy the DOT that has the issue not the epa,( then there is osha which we won't get into)  asbestos  its found in the ground all over this country.

[PegLeg45]

Wrong Peg. You, and your neighbors got charged. You're paying for it in your light bill. Now, I can go either way on this question, do we stick the builder for the full cost so we aren't forced to subsidize someone else? Or, do we spread the cost out over everyone's bill as more construction equals more jobs and is to everyone's benefit, and no one wins from a prohibitvely high fee that might have kept you from building that workshop? There is merit to both sides, though I lean towards the former, but in neither case is it "free".
FQ13

Well, considering my bill for my shop averages about $10 a month, I don't feel like I'm getting fu**ed too badly. It goes up slightly in the summer when we run the pool filter pump.
It is understood that the cost base for monthly charges is derived from an average of installations, maintenance, labor and usage per month....what I meant was that there was no extra charge by the electric company to hook up my base.