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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I had a quote for $250 per outlet. I decided to do myself. Yes, your mom got screwed. Sorry, this happens often with older folks and disinformated people.
Anyone here hiring for something like this? 🫢
Paid a fair price don’t call the business.
Yes, you’re right it’s a steep price, but that’s the cost for a professional.
Residential is usually more expensive than business and usually companies won’t do residential if they’re big.
It’s been a few years since I got quotes, but generally it was $250 per run and those runs would be run to their max length with slack if needed. Or at least that’s what I requested 90 m for every run spool it up in the ceiling.
It can take a lot of work to run cable and residential because of things like fire blocks and other unforeseen circumstances.
But this seems very high to me.
Tip: if you ever pay someone to run ethernet and you need a single drop pay for two.
Would need to see the invoice.
Was it a fixed price quote or t&m estimate?
Our commercial vendor charges 250 per run flat fee.
The typical price for a business that had drop ceilings and drywall is $150-$300 depending on number of drops ordered. A single drop is barely worth the materials to deploy a tech.
Using that understanding doing it in a house will easily add $250 for the headaches that can happen. So knowing it is $300 and then a possible $250. $900 seems reasonable in the aspect of they have to make money and they have to make sure that sending the tech is worth doing. She got a quote that was the “I don’t want to take this job” price.
Think about it like this. If you were to tell me that you would pay me $50 to come make you a pot of coffee plus all of my travel and materials. That job to me is not worth it. However if you told me you would pay me $500 plus travel and materials. That job becomes worth doing.
Where? India?
Seriously? 900+ for an hour work?
Working for a uk university, a sparky would charge £200/hr for electrical work. For a data cabler, it would be about the same. If I was having hundreds of data points done, I would budget for £50 a cable.
You will pay $1000 any time someone shows up at your house to do anything.
The only reason I can think it would be expensive is if it was a really complicated run. But seems way too much.
They said drop ceiling in basement and it was first floor. So basically drilling up through the floor into the wall in first floor. Super easy
“Super Easy” you never say that till you’re done with the job. You say or think that going in and you’re most likely fucked. “Oh this is gonna be super easy”. 8hrs later you wanna burn the building down and run around the town naked screaming at the top of your lungs. Congratulations you’ve just gone insane. Haha
run around the town naked screaming at the top of your lungs.
So YOU’RE the guy I saw the other day.
Lol you sound just like my coworker!
Best description/warning ever
I mean she signed off on the work right? I over quote jobs that wouldn’t be worth my time if I didn’t charge more. They never have to accept the quote
I did a job where I made a few drops from house to two barns (conduit done by someone else) to setup up cameras, an AP and a switch, I only put down $400 as labor. I guess I under valued my self.
Anyone else wondering why someone’s mom has a server rack on the basement?
Only moms website hosting.
I would never hire an electrician to do low voltage, I would find someone who specializes specifically with Ethernet wiring, like in Minnesota I used Correct Cabling.
How fast is that network? Isn’t 5e a bit outdated these days? I’m not an expert, so I am asking cautiously.
Cat 5e can handle 1GE at 100m and 10GE up to 45m according to spec. Even 2.5G for a PC is pretty uncommon currently outside of enthusiast hardware, and most consumers don’t have 1GE WAN connections, so I think Mom is going to be just fine.