How One Electrician Made My Day

rbsremodeling

Successful relations are built on honesty

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Eric K

Im in the pittsburgh area and I know many of the more "advertised" electrical companies charge $1100 to $1500 for a 200 amp service upgrade.

dkillianjr

You beat me to it Eric, I was gonna say just about the same thing.

Dave

Magnettica

$1100 services:



$2500 services:



Any questions?

bill02

my electricians will not even touch a FP panel to repair it due to liability reasons. Maybe this electrician was avoiding a lawsuit by not charging for it

Aggie67

That is a possibility I didn't think of.

InPhase277

I'm not sure I see what the big stink is about. So this guy doesn't charge what some others here would charge. So? We have no idea what this guy has as overhead. If you have a low overhead and can charge low enough to beat the other guy and still turn a healthy profit, go for it.

slowforthecones

Yeah.. honesty = you don't have any money left or she knows your finances too well that when its a rainy day you can't get money out.

Magnettica

Speaking of FPE.... look at this work of art:



The whole time I was thinking of this thread as I detached these (2) #12 wires that were feeding a small disconnect box that was protecting (2) #14 wires under a 50 amp circuit breaker.

Celtic

I just priced out the job as you detailed it Mags....
About $3200 including the permits, filing and inspection costs.

A panel swap out under "average conditions" using QO....running at $1800 w/permits, filing and inspection costs.


Looks like Aggie may have gotten the fabled "good deal"....maybe we can see some before/after shots of the swap out?

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Magnettica

I would love to see before/ after pictures.

How much would you charge (approx) to upgrade this mess?

wireless

I have been staring at the picture, I can't seem to find the mess!

Winchester

T&M

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Ryan

Celtic

If you have to ask ~ you can't afford it


What is there now?
12 meters at 60A?
2 meters at ??A ?
Service size?

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Magnettica

13 at 60 amps and 1 at 70 amps to a remote building under single management. The main disconnect is 200 amps at 120/ 208 volts. Not that it matters, but there is also a 200 main disconnect (not pictured) for some roof-mounted T-Mobile cell phone equipment and that has it's own drop and own meter with three separate unused meters coming out of a wireway for future use.

Celtic

But what is MAIN service rating....that's gonna be changed too.

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Magnettica

200 amps.