Tommy Dobczyk breaks down the full cost to add an ADU in Buckeye, Arizona: trenching $2,250, water line $1,200, electric sub-panel $2,400, plus septic tank and permits totaling roughly $20,000 to $21,000. He advises hiring contractors with local experience and checking references.
Chapters
Are you in the deal room? Site plan, and it's located in 85354 Arizona, Buckeye, Arizona. I need to connect to the water and the electric and bring it from the main house out to the ADU. And I also need to install a septic tank, approximately 1,000-gallon septic tank. So we need the engineering drawing done for that and the permit done for that, as well as the install. So go ahead and run all that and give me a price. And so with just a drawing of the site plan and the zip code or information, it should provide me with a good amount of information here. We've got trenching $2,250, water line $1,200, electric install $2,400. That's at a 100-amp sub-panel. So a 1,000-gallon tank, leach field install, evacuation and backfill, engineering and drawings, permit fees, labor and equipment rental, we're looking at $20,000, $21,000. $1,000 just on the utility, right? So all of this is me, but for everybody else, that's finding me, the who that knows how, right? So, and then contractor hiring tips says right here, make sure they've done installs in Buckeye or Maricopa, that they have insurance, request 2 to 3 references and see similar jobs. Literally want to go out and look at their work.
