Price Check On New Service 100a 200a

diyerforever

I am just curious how much a standard service install is going for in different parts of the country. When I say standard I am talking about just a ranch house with ALUM. SE cable. I haven't done a service since before wire prices went through the roof. Here in SW Pennsylvania I use to charge for a 100A 24circuit $900 and 200A 42circuit $1400. That is from the weather head down including the meter socket and 2 grd rods. I am sure the prices are different by know so please respond.

Thanks,
Sparky by trade diyerforever...

Speedy Petey

Yup, that was about right here two or so years ago.
We are in the $1k and up range for 100 amps, and $15k and up for 200 amps these days.
I've had a rash of meter/main, main lug services I've had to do the past few months. They were in the $2250-$2500 range. The SER was a killer.

AL SE cable has not skyrocketed...yet, but it has gone up considerably. AL is all I can get in my area for SE cable so CU is not even an option, unless I want to order a 500 or 1k' spool. (yeah right).

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ATS

A little less here in the Buffalo region of NY. If I bid a 150 a service at $900, I lose the job to others who bid less than $800. Prices are low here and I also have to compete with Electrical Inspectors who own electrical contracting businesses, no joke. One of my customers got an estimate a while back for the service I recently completed from the inspector who tried to use his title as "the inspector" as a sales tactic, luckily she thought this was unfair and refused to go with him. Sorry about the hi-jacking, guess I got off track. A question I would ask is how much time is figured for a typical service change? Lately I've been getting my butt kicked on services in finished basements and finished walls in other rooms the service may be in. I quote for it, but they can be real tough to figure. I haven't sold any service upgrade ever for over a grand out where I live.

JAL

That seems a bit low for where I am . The last one I did 3 months ago was a 200 amp and it was $1,600. My busy season is just starting with summer homes/camps and the price will probbly be going up due to overhead and material costs. I need to look at this before everybody starts calling.

fridaymean

200A overhead or underground in my area, you are talkin' 2K+ for a new service. Upgrades are more costly because of the additional time.

400A usually 3K+

mdcorreia

A service upgrade to 100 amperes requires additional hight availability outdoors, approval of the new service point, and usually reconnecting back 12 circuits = 12 hours + $640.00 for mat and permit. Then you have to wait around for hours for the inspector and then for the power
co. All = $1,600.00 + taxes. ( and rising due to copper increases every day).

(Advice to starters on their own business.
When I work out in the field once every 3 years with an union contractor - other electricians say - `oh I can do a 100a service in 3 hours`! This is what happens when an electrician starts out on their own - no clue about how long things take to get done. When I worked out in the field I used to make notes of how long any type of work took to be completed.)

Speedy Petey

That's funny. I CAN do a 100 amp service in 3 hours, albeit with few circuits and an easy riser.

I have to ask: 12 circuits = 12 hours??? Are you serious?

I do the "average" 100 amp service in about 4-6 hours. 200a in 6-8 hours. By myself!
And NO, I am not "just starting out". I DO know how long things take.

Also, why do you say an upgrade required additional height? This must be a local requirement.
If the existing drop has adequate ground clearance it just goes back at the same height.

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Kristina

100a is $1100, 200a is $1300 in CT.

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fridaymean

You guys have to have it inpected before the poco reconnects?

Sounds inconvienient. We recon when we are done, then we go home. Mr. Inspector comes later.

Speedy Petey

That's how I do a typical 1-family OH service.

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RobertWilber

13 for 100, 14 if it needs a unistrut frame plus permit
23 to 27 for 200 plus permit

mdcorreia

Details like identifying all 24 circuits could take 2 hrs by oneself - up and down stairs etc. - Or do like most - lights and plugs, lights and plugs, lights and plugs....
So 3 hrs of work is equal to what $900.00?
How long waiting to apply for a permit ( 2hrs in here)
Waiting for the inspector 1 - 2 hrs -waiting for reconnection crew 2 hrs, no service is reconnected by the power co. unless an inspector calls it in with approval after meggering it.
I had the opportunuty of watching one 3 hrs claimer (for a 100a10 cct) it took him 16 and had to go back to id the ccts properly after the owner complained.

Speedy Petey

Actually I would write "Lights & Receptacles".
I remark a panel as it was. If it is not labeled I label what I can and go. If they want a fully labeled panel I DO charge more.

You sure do a lot of standing around and getting paid for it. I thought before they changed the rules to let us make taps that our system was bad, but yours is pathetic!

2 hrs to APPLY for a permit??? I make a call, someone answers, and within 3 minutes I have an application number.
The only annoying part is calling the inspector himself during his one hour calling window in the morning. Getting through can take many tries.



Robert, are you really getting $2500 for a 200a service in Philly?? Holy crap!

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fridaymean

New service? I thought this was upgrade. Anyway. we were charging about 2900 for a 200A underground.

Sparky Joe

aren't panel shedules code? I'm not sure, maybe I've been gettin hosed.

mdcorreia

A 3 hrs service? - new 100a undergorung maybe. There is no cables to connect to the panel yet etc.
I was talking about a service upgrade. A lot of modification of the existing including extending some cables which do not reach the new panel or it`s neutral bar or the new panel has to be at the other corner of the basement etc. and all vables have to be extended + all other waiting - yes I get paid for all that.
The time starts when you leave home -minus breaks and lunch time - then the time you arrive home = how many hrs? It takes some skill to know how long something takes to get done. Working with the tools could be only half or less of the time it takes. It maybe is all measured
in what type of vehicle you one drives - an old van? Does one make at least $60,000.00 clear income a year? One should. I do - yet ` I am so slow?

mdcorreia

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That should be the price of a 200a upgrade - with a small variable from region to rigion,

fridaymean

200A underground = 2.5 hrs
400A underground = 2.75 hrs

RobertWilber

post was too short

mdcorreia

I have seen others and do it myself; 4 hrs to install the conduit and meter socket and pull the wires including drilling a hole in the concrete,
5 hrs to reconnect 12 cct including a new gr wire, id all circuits. The remaining time has to do with set up, buy materials, waiting for reconnection etc. I account for everything. including the time it takes to remove the old service conduit.