install new ele wire on 408 sq ' cabin

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is this answer free is there a charge

AllanJ

The answers are free but sometimes take a long time to get for difficult questions.

You typically pay for the line from the utility pole to your house (the service drop).

In many locations you have to pay for extending the utility power lines and adding poles up your street to your house if none already exist.

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J. V.

True log cabins are not for the DIY'er. Even licensed qualified electricians may not be familiar with log home construction. Especially the electrical end of it. This is a job I would say you need professional help with.

mpoulton

Electrical in a log cabin is hard because of the construction type. It's just very difficult to run wires through stacks of solid logs. Like many other aspects of log construction, there are very specialized tricks and techniques to use, and not many people know how to do it these days.

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TarheelTerp

How much power does a 20' X 20' cabin need? Or want?

An LP refrigerator will keep the bait and beer cold...
what else do you need?

md2lgyk

Well, with proper planning it's not THAT hard. My wife and I live in a log home we built almost entirely by ourselves. And we are not professional tradesmen of any sort, just skilled DIYers. Hiding HVAC ducting is a lot more difficult.

rrolleston

If this is a modern log home it's usually pre drilled for the wiring and holes just have to be cut for the boxes. Last one I was working at on site they would drill a hole through the wall for the wires and mark on the floor where the hole was so we knew where to go and just had to cut out at the desired height and ones that fed upstairs were also marked out.

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TarheelTerp

It's a 400 sq foot (20x20) cabin.
Probably just like all the other fishing cabins on the lake.
No real need for power is mentioned.

No logs are mentioned either.

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Speedy Petey

I've done many many real log homes. I have not seen one that was pre-drilled. Every time we'd either have to be on site to drill out own holes, or lay out the holes with the builder and they drilled them as they set logs.

I highly doubt the OP is talking about logs though. I agree, more likely just like the image above.

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rrolleston

That is what I mean by pre drilled. The architect or contractor had in the plans where they were supposed to be and they drilled them as they were going. So when we got to the upstairs everything was already drilled for us.

They do have kit log homes that everything is cut and drilled and numbered at the factory and basically goes together like leggo's. A place around here does it.

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