If you've just bought some property in High Point, NC and need city service, there's permits, fees, and field work that need to be done to get your new water and sewer tap installation done right. New Water and Sewer Tap Installation in High Point, NC Checking Eligibility more The first step is to find out if a public main already runs past your lot. Public Services can check on the city's mapping system, and if the lines sit close enough, you can then apply to connect. If they do not, you can wait on an extension, get up a neighborhood petition signed by more than half the street, or send a letter of public necessity from the county health department. Work to the Curb For an ordinary single-family dwelling, Public Services will install the connection from the main to the back of the curb, set the meter box, and afterward restore the pavement it disturbs. A duplex, however, counts as a commercial building, and commercial and industrial customers must hire a licensed North Carolina utility contractor to do the work. The fees for Public Service work depend on what work you're having done. A residential water tap of five-eighths inch or one inch costs $1,610. A four-inch sewer tap costs $2,080. Extra trench work, clean-outs, and frontage charges cause other fees, and those fees scale with meter size. Getting Pipes to Your House You must furnish and lay the pipe from your property line nearest the main to your actual house, and you are responsible for keeping that private run in repair. Public utilities contractors who build house sewer lines have to put in a clean-out at or near the property line, brought to finished grade, as an extension of the public sewer. Water service lines must end at a valve, box, or meter where the building's piping can join. Water piped from the meter to the house and sewer pipe from the clean-out to the house are private. When a leak or a blockage appears on your side of those points, the repair falls to you to take care of. Call 811 Before any work can get done, an excavator must notify North Carolina 811. They'll send locators to paint or flag any utility lines. Striking a gas, electric, or communications line can injure people and leave you paying for the damage. Plumbing and Inspection On the house side of the meter and the clean-out, you'll need a licensed plumber to complete the last run of pipe, take a well out of service if one is being abandoned, and retire a septic tank if you'll no longer be using it. After the tap is in and the private lines are joined, inspectors will need to look at the grade, bedding, joints, clean-out, and the meter setting before you can start using water. A lot goes into these connections, and we can take care of all of it for you. Call us now at JP Underground Connections LLC at 336-223-3615 to request service and speak to the top underground contracting services in the area. We are based out of Kernersville and serve nearly every area within a 45-minute drive.
