Ball park cost for breaker box replacement

I just had some work done by an electrician friend of mine at my cabin. He
put in eight exterior four plug receptacles, four switches with runs to
exterior lights, mounted the conduit and boxes for two motion halogen
lights, and put a light and switch in the under the stairs closet.

I had to buy the Romex. He brought all the conduit and boxes and
weatherproof covers and various stuff from his work for all the rest. I had
to buy the two $50 halogen motion lights. I had to buy him two cases of
beer, and let him stay in the cabin for three days.

Do you think I got taken?

Oh, I also bought him a Remington 870 synthetic stock 12 ga. shotgun.

Steve

Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on September 16, 2006, 3:26 pm

>> I paid just over $200 (I think it was $220) for a new service, breaker

> I had to buy the Romex. He brought all the conduit and boxes and

> weatherproof covers and various stuff from his work for all the rest. I

> had to buy the two $50 halogen motion lights. I had to buy him two cases

> of beer, and let him stay in the cabin for three days.

> Do you think I got taken?

You did good. The $220 job was 1966. Do you think prices have gone up
since then?

Posted by Steve B on September 16, 2006, 6:07 pm

>>> I paid just over $200 (I think it was $220) for a new service, breaker

> .

>> I had to buy the Romex. He brought all the conduit and boxes and

>> weatherproof covers and various stuff from his work for all the rest. I

>> had to buy the two $50 halogen motion lights. I had to buy him two cases

>> of beer, and let him stay in the cabin for three days.

>> Do you think I got taken?

> You did good. The $220 job was 1966. Do you think prices have gone up

> since then?

I think I did good. We're friends, and although he gives me a break, I try
to take care of him.

Steve

Posted by Stormin Mormon on September 16, 2006, 10:13 am

I've been doing repair and install work for several years. Both for my
own company, and working for someone else. It's OK to say you prefer
some brand or other of parts, but it's not OK to supply your own
parts.

People who supply their own parts tend to be:

1) overcontrolling. This is the guy who will watch every thing you do,
ask too many questions, and tell you how to do your work. This is a
total PIA that contractors hate.

2) Buying the wrong parts. Most of the time, customers by the cheapest
parts they can find, which end up not fitting, or need a lot of extra
time to make them work. It's hard to get them to understand that the
cheap part is far more labor than the good part that I woulda
installed.

3) Trying to keep the price down, by cutting out the contractor's
normal and expected markup on the parts. This is the guy who buys the
cheap part on Ebay, or at the local home center, and expects the
contractor to enjoy installing cheap junk for discounted labor rates.

My suggestion is to skip the "if I supply the parts" and just call em
out for estimates.

--

Christopher A. Young
You can't shout down a troll.
You have to starve them.
.

I'm calling around for some sort of quotes to replace my failing
circuit
breaker box and so far I've only received one estimate.

The price they quoted was about $2500 bucks roughly or $91/hour for
their
work - including permit and inspection. No other electricians want to
release their hourly rate nor provide estimates. I'm not bitter about
it,
just interested in how much money I'll have to secure to do this.

So if you had to guess, what would it cost to replace a non-grounded
circuit
breaker with a grounded circuit breaker IF I SUPPLIED THE BREAKERS AND
THE
PANEL.

Posted by HeyBub on September 16, 2006, 10:26 am

Eigenvector wrote:

> I'm calling around for some sort of quotes to replace my failing

> circuit breaker box and so far I've only received one estimate.

> The price they quoted was about $2500 bucks roughly or $91/hour for

> their work - including permit and inspection. No other electricians

> want to release their hourly rate nor provide estimates. I'm not

> bitter about it, just interested in how much money I'll have to

> secure to do this.

> So if you had to guess, what would it cost to replace a non-grounded

> circuit breaker with a grounded circuit breaker IF I SUPPLIED THE

> BREAKERS AND THE PANEL.

I had this done on 1/2 of a duplex about five years ago. 200A service, $800.

Recently, the other half of the duplex needed the same treatment. The same
company was now charging $1100.

I bought the panel/breakers/etc at HD and did the work myself, with my son
helping. We started at 10:00am and were finished around 5:00. Out-of-pocket
cost: ~$280.00. Then we had a beer.

In my jurisdiction (Houston) no permit is required nor is there a fee for
removing/resetting the meter. (Houston also has no zoning laws - eat your
heart out.)

So flush with the thrill of a job well done, we repeated the process a
couple of weeks later at his house.

I wrote up the project for this newsgroup. Check the archives.

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