We soon realised that this is where the point of connection will be for our 3 phase supply to the house. We could not understand why it had to be where it is. We phoned the site supervisor first thing this morning and he said this is the only place it could go to comply with Australian standards. We decided to look into it further and found out that unfortunately this is true. The problem is the point of connection has to be accessible by ladder and due to the roof above the garage door, a ladder cannot be set up to the correct angle if trying to access the top roof gable. Unfortunately you are not allowed to have the point of connection on a balcony either. The only other solution is to have a pole mounted in the corner of our block. A cable could then be run from the top of the pole to the house underground and the point of connection would then be to this pole.
We are a bit disappointed that this wasn't pointed out to us sooner and what our options were, as we could have had the pole installed sooner rather than the overhead bracket. We have decided to put up with it for now and look to get the pole installed at a later date. We will just need to make sure suitable conduit is installed underground before the driveway is laid.
