Wooden electrical masts near a property

Davesnave

witchy1066 wrote: »

regardless of what you have or haven't seen dave, and you know I respect your views, I do have one in the back of my garden and only recently the electricity company ungraded the cable,

I don't get wayleaves as I don't own the land

its not just one pole , they are all the same around here , we have no underground electricity cables

I'm agreeing with you.:) In rural places the phone and electric can be on the same pole or poles, but as Val Haller says: "It is unusual to share higher voltage lines with telephone circuits."

i.e. 11 000volts is a bit different from 400/240 volts!

Maybe it happens right out in the sticks.

Neighbour's phone and ours are attached to the same pole that brings us both the leccie, but significantly, that's after the step-down transformers, which are in the field.

witchy1066

I have just gone to the back of beyond to see what it says on the pole,
it reads "danger of death, keep off" in English and Welsh
so definitely electric :rotfl:
also a number , this number we have to quote to both bt and the electricity company if we have any problems which is very rare last year a lorry coming into the cul de sac near us brought the cable down, sparks flying every where ,since then they have replaced that pole with a new taller one,

anyway back to the OP I don't think you have anything to worry about ,as other posters have said its not uncommon

Dimey

martindow wrote: »

I doubt if they are share,d as two separate companies put up poles for their own services. If they were shared I would imagine that electrical cables could interfere with phone lines if they were alongside each other.

The phone and electricity cables to my house share the same telegraph poles. One above the other.

It's the normal way to supply in rural Kent.

Dimey

Davesnave wrote: »

Phones can sometimes use small electricity poles, but I have never seen them sharing the typical 11000 volt lines with multiple wires on them. They all use wooden poles.

I have both on my fields and I'm paid wayleaves separately for them.

Glad to say I have none in my garden!

How do you get wayleaves ? Are they some kind of fee for posts using your land? Who from?
Can you explain more please Davesnave?

Davesnave

Dimey wrote: »

How do you get wayleaves ? Are they some kind of fee for posts using your land? Who from?
Can you explain more please Davesnave?

There's a thread on people's woes elsewhere, but they're normally trouble free. I only had a problem because someone moved a telegraph pole off their land and onto mine some time before I purchased. Things like that can happen in the countryside, where people know contractors etc. That pole was preventing the neighbour from erecting an outbuilding.;)

The wayleave for telephone poles is a one-off payment of £150. It's only given if the landowner is not served directly by the pole themselves. I eventually got mine. Long story!

The electricity people are easier to deal with. They monitor their own lines and, hopefully, sort problems like tall trees, as witchy says. Each year they send me money. It's only about £40 overall. Every pole and stay is itemised and attracts a certain payment. This money is paid despite the fact that I benefit directly from the line.

I don't get anything at all from the Water Board, though the 150mm main goes through the bottom field and yard. Fair dos, it causes no problems, but I have to be aware exactly where it is when digging out for gateposts, foundations etc. Their map is either out by a good few metres, or my dowsing is rubbish, but we haven't hit it yet! :rotfl:

Rachyk

The only impact they'd have on your property would be if someone could see them and didn't like the view! We have had problems of the transformers at substations humming at the same frequency as the broadband (BT said it more technically than that!) which meant the broadband didn't work, but that's on sites so I'm sure houses would never be close enough to the equipment for that to have any impact!

epz_2

If its an electricity poll then it should have a poll number on it. You can just phone up the electric company and check if its electric or not, that said I doubt it would be over11kv.
Still enough to kill you but probably not very highly rated, the big concern about pylons is the electro magnetic fields which is a product of voltage and lots of current being pushed through it.
There is a substantial difference between a 275kv transmission pylon serving a major town and a radial circuit for a few hundred houses in the country.
Personally my rule of thumb is if you can hear a hum coming from a pylon then you probably want to be further away.

[Deleted User]

HV transmissions lines are suspected to cause cancer. No-one should live near one.

On the plus side if you can get free electricity if you know how.

Dimey

Thanks Davesnave. Looks like I may be eligible.
You've given me a little project to investigate.:)

Dimey

DELETED USER wrote:

HV transmissions lines are suspected to cause cancer. No-one should live near one.

On the plus side if you can get free electricity if you know how.

How much voltage is classed as HV?