Electricity for construction

[Shawn Legree]

Hello guys,

This is my first time owning a home, I'm about to start gutting the property.

My question is how do I get electricity in the place? Do I use a generator or do I call the electric service provider? Please note this is a distressed property the meters may not be there.

I hope this is not a silly question,

[James H.]

If possible, I would skip the temporary service and have a new service installed as the very first item and then just use temporary leads from that until I was ready to start roughing in the rest of the electric. There might be some minor things that need to be done to prepare for the new service for which a small generator would likely be cheaper than a temporary service (and useful elsewhere).