2 family house (new construction) inspection without ConEd hooked up

I am looking at a 2-family house, new construction, in Brooklyn. As of now, ConEd has not installed the meters or hooked up the house to electricity.
The sellers broker said that they could attach a generator for the home inspection.

Is this common for new construction?
I anticipated everything would be in place in time for the inspection.
Can inspectors do a proper inspection with generator power and not proper ConEd power hooked up?

susan.scottker

in General Discussion 4 years and 3 months ago

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colonialrevival | 4 years and 3 months ago

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Prior to our historic home purchase, we were in contract on a new construction building for nearly a year due to an inept developer and builder who repeatedly failed inspections and ran out of cash when it was time to fix them. If you’re trying to get into the home this calendar year, a new build may not be your best bet. I wouldn’t put money down on something that didn’t even have meters.

krobertson

in General Discussion 4 years and 3 months ago

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Agree with Urbandad, try to hold something back in escrow until the meters are actually installed by ConEd. Not just passed DoB inspection. One risk is that when they built the new house they left and reused the old underground electrical service line from the street. When you apply to install the meters, ConEd could very well say the old service line is undersized or deteriorated for use with the new electrical load in the house and will refuse to put in the new meters until the service line is upgraded. And if it happens to be a protected street you’re going to be even more screwed as they will refuse to dig up the street to upgrade the line.

andriywww1990 | 4 years and 3 months ago

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i would be worried to, too many what ifs.

i can say this though, because we have over head lines here in queens, we lose power about once a year and we lose it for days at a time during things like sandy and that storm last year. i have a generator and i back feed that into each leg of my power box. i will not explain how (there are two ways to do this, that i know of; and i wonder any inspector would say if he or she saw any of this?). i will say this, it feeds the entire house as if it is being fed by coned. we monitor voltage on each floor, no issues. my guess is, there is probably a way to do this for the inspection, but i will also point this out: i do not trust my generator and would it not be bad luck that you go to do this and something goes wrong? most of these generators owned by people like us use are not hospital grade power plants.

for electricians who just read what i wrote above, we do turn the mains off.

hkapstein | 4 years and 3 months ago

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Ok I wouldn’t like this very much. I’d try to hold back something in escrow in case there’s a problem with the electrical, or for some reason it can’t be installed by coned as planned, or in a timely way. The generator inspection may be better than nothing as a way to chek the interior wiring works, but ask your inspector.