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Old 06-17-2009, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by mulligan View Post
Having been involved in construction in florida, I can tell you that with the scale of construction at TV, the cost would be prohibitive, A separate permit is required for each temporary service. It must be mounted on a pole away from the building, which gets in the way of site work(grading, landscaping, etc), and the use of longer extension cords is not real good for the contractors power tools.


Also, TV builds with a roster of 18 builders, some subs they use for nearly every home (i.e. Munns and Massey) and other subs each builder prefers. If they installed power, they wouldn't be easily able to track the cost to build each home overall and by type of sub.

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