My wife and I are considering building a house on a piece of land around Saskatoon and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me the cost of bringing in power, gas and phone. It dependes on the cost of gas but it might be just as well to go with geothermal. Any help with what to expect would be greatly appreciated!

 

prep should be able to fill you in with that Marlon. i'd like to help you out also if you decide to build there...

i know its usually 30-50g for power, gas, phone and getting water sourced. geothermal usually runs 20-40g also. starting an acreage isn't cheap... moving to yorkton is a much better alternative....

 

I'm sure Yorkton is lots cheaper. Saskatoon must be getting pretty pricey.
On a side note, sherm, wht's with all the RTM's in Yorkton. Never seen so many.

 

It really depends where the services are. Like for us power was across the road. So we got it trenched in with their little trencher (they wouldnt let me dig it) and got the box and everything in the yard and i think it was right around the 8 grand mark.

For water we went with a well, and to get it drilled it was around 8 grand, and that was for a test hole, and a 12 gallon per minute well. We went with a more expensive guy too, and he was certified (or whatever they call it) from the watershed authority.
You have to get the water trenched in to your house too, and that varies to how far the well (or the city water is) from your house, if you have to trench it under a driveway (costs more cause it needs to be deeper and insulated). (backhoe makes around a thousand dollars a day, PRETTY MUCH for any kind of work it does so that gives you an idea)
Natural gas to get brought to our yard would have costed us 15 grand. Now im not sure what all that would have included, but thats with the nearest line about a kilometer away. We then decided to do geo thermal.

Now geo thermal isnt cheap unless you dig it yourself, or drill your own wells. For a complete system we have gotten quotes from 35 grand, and up to 50 grand.
Since I own a backhoe I did do our own digging and we ended up getting a complete 6 or 7 ton system for 22 grand. Now it should have been about 15, but we got a bunch of upgrades(better cooling, and a better tank, hot water assist, that sorta thing), and we are getting the guy to do some ducting work for us too(since hes got his hvac ticket)

A sewer system can be either cheap or expensive, and it really varies on different things. A tank is around the 3 grandish mark (talk to me and Ill get ya a good deal at just above our cost),
Ive done complete systems for 6 grand, and complete systems for 18 grand, all depends on the amount of land you have (for codes) the soil, etc.

Phone wasnt really expensive, I think it was about 400 bucks to get them to trench it from the field to our house. Again then didnt want me to dig that, cause then they wouldnt have made any money haha.

Its not the cheapest thing to start from scratch, but let me tell ya man, it is so well worth it. Our only small gripe is that the pavement is a couple miles from us, and then that takes us a little longer to get to the city then just driving on the gravel.

The trade off is it is so quiet and peaceful out here. I mean its just pure awesome. Sometimes I wish I was a little bit closer to the pavement, but then I hear the traffic go by alot more, and settle for what I have

 

Thanks Prep!! Gives me a good idea of what to expect. I think we would just get a sistern put in for water instead of a well. My inlaws have that and get water hauled in, it's no more expensive a month than our water bill is in the city.

We are in the process of finding how far we have to bring the utilities to the land we are thinking of. Just trying to decide if a acerage is in our range or if we are going to have to wait and just build in a town.

 

Well man you just let me know if you need any help at all. If you need some work done also let me know, I know how it is to start out and I try my best to make sure my prices are very reasonable, specially to a fellow fte'r!

 

Good on ya Sheldon.
And good luck Marlon. Out of town is So very nice.

 

It simply can`t be beat!

 

Country life can not be beat in my books. We won't be moving back to the city until we can't handle the acreage anymore. I'm hoping another 40 years!!!

 

I love the sistern idea, all your compnents are in the house. I also loved hauling water as a kid. If you collect rain water we usually hauled in 2000gallons of water a month extra. That was with a family of 5 (3 being girls)
Rather then that geothermol is a good idea IMO

 

We both grew up on farms and would love to be in the country. There are a lot of things to think about and figure out before we make any decisions.

 

Yep its only a matter of time before I buil a acreage of my own as well.

 

We had to haul water once in awhile at my grandparents house, and it sucked in the winter time, with their setup.

Properly drilled well, with a proper dug line should never freeze or anything, its pretty close to being inside, just buried 8 feet deep haha

 

Murphy's law states anything that can go wrong usually will, sooner or later..........

 

I'm also wondering if anyone can fill me in on what property tax's are like for a acreage in the R.M. of corman park.