My Mother hired a licensed electrician to install 1 ethernet drop in her home office. She already had a preexisting tp-link setup in the basement. She showed me the invoice today which totaled $958.00! I’m shocked and disgusted. Feels like they took advantage of my Mother.
I told my Mother to call them first thing tomorrow morning to see if they possibly made a mistake. If not, I advised her to never do business with that company again. This seems like highway robbery. Is there anything else she can do?
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She got way over charged. Shouldn’t have been over $300.
Our commercial vendor charges 250 per run flat fee.
Anyone else wondering why someone’s mom has a server rack on the basement?
Only moms website hosting.
When I bought my house 25 or so years ago, one of the first things I did was have Ethernet and cable drops installed to every appropriate room (5 rooms). Cost me $2000 and they left me with the leftover cable. I installed drops myself in the cellar. Now everything is on Wi-Fi and I’ve discontinued cable. Oh well.
You were overcharged.
The price for one drop could very easily have been half of what you paid. Most of the work is taking the job, getting to the site, understanding what needs to be done at this particular location and getting started. Once you’re there and working, adding a few more drops is comparatively little additional effort.
Well, there is a large hank of phone, Ethernet, and CCTV cable that goes from my cable splitter/punchdowns/Ethernet blocks across the cellar ceiling and up into a hole that goes straight up to my attic then drop down into the three second floor bedrooms and one into my first floor living room.
I ran three more sets across to the other side of the cellar - one out to the back porch, one up into the dining room, one to the cellar wall under the dining room.
So on total they ran four runs and setup the phone and Ethernet panels. I ran three runs.
I paid about $500 for a licensed technician to install an outlet for my bidet and two cable drops. Unfortunately, she got ripped off :(
So charge a range, according to time! This is a rip-off!
Yeah that’s an over charge. I think I paid someone $1,500 to wire my whole house with CAT6A shielded I think I have 20 drops, two per room give or take a few extras in places.
She should have never hired an electrician always hire the actual low voltage companies. Electricians HATE doing low voltage because it’s tedious compared to running romex and requires more specialized tools and considerations.
sparkies have no business installing network cables
Every time I inherit a job from a sparkie I want to punch them in the nuts
Did your mom hire a chain electrical contractor, like a Mr Sparky or similar? because they are notorious for charging ~$4-500 an hour or more and hiding it behind a flat rate pricing system.
I think was all the posts here are missing is that she hired a licensed electrician. If it would have been one plug that would have been a similar cost without anyone batting an eye. The money is not for the knock, it’s knowing where to knock. I wish I could say I’m defending them because I’m an electrician but I’m not. We lose work to those guys all the time, and they never have the right low voltage trainings.
Yeah way over paid. I run low voltage for a living. 1cat5-6 drop is $80 per line and $144/hr for labor, and even I think our prices are a little high but I am also poor so everything is expensive to me.
What city are you in? I’m not too surprised for electricians especially in pricey states. Unfortunately it is a bit of work to run cable between floors, and worse when digging out drywall.
I feel an AV company might be a better help
Before I even saw the price, I said 1k per run in my head. Learn how to pull cable yourself if you don’t like it. Shit can be challenging sometimes. You charge 1k per run because some runs should cost 2k and some should be 500. When you only want 1 run done, you pay the premium then. Having said that, probably should have adjusted this one after the fact and said “Hey that was a pretty easy one, here’s 30% back”.
Why is anyone installing anything less than CAT6 today??
Why is anyone even doing anything less than cat 7
Outrageously overpriced, but I don’t think they were being dishonest about it. It really isn’t worth it to do a dinky LV job installing a single drop. It would have cost 60 bucks and a YouTube video of you DIYd it.