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I can’t say what is or isn’t permitted, Tom, but the incoming electrical service to our guest house, built in 2005, and our main house, built a year later (both outside Grecia, Alajuela) and full permitted, cross private property thanks to a legal easement. The water lines run through that same easement.
We will be connecting to the power company’s poles when they install them on our road. This has not happened yet because we are the only house that has been built there.
In the meantime, we followed their instructions on connecting to the nearest existing pole, and hired an electrician to do it. He purchased the correct gauge cable and attachment hardware based on their guidance.
When we were ready, the power company arrived in a big shiny truck, installed a new transformer and new box on the pole, and connected our cable to it. I don’t think they would have done all that if our cable was not permitted. Perhaps exceptions are made when there is no other way of connecting a newly built house to the grid?
Since one of the respondents mentioned something about modular houses not being as sturdy as normal construction, I thought an update following the earthquake would be in order:
Our house is on the Nicoya peninsula, about 50 km away from the epicenter, I believe. Our groundskeeper, who was on the property at the time, said the quake was so strong he had trouble standing. He could see the house from where he was and said it ‘looked like jelly’, to use his words. But the house had no damage at all. We have been there since the quake, and I looked over the entire house very carefully. I found nothing, not even a tiny crack.
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