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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On the high end of fair for a licensed electrician. Picked the wrong trade to do this. You didn’t get scammed. Don’t beat yourself up over this op.
Wait until municipalities start requiring pulling permits for “low voltage”
licensed electrician
She hired a plastic surgeon to pop a zit when a nurse would have been more than qualified. The electrician probably has a minimum hourly rate as well as a minimum number of hours that they bill to make any job worth it to them.
What country are you in cause brother you should really look into migration cause at 23 that’s not skilled!! That’s laborer
I don’t know no plumber making $29/ hour my friend, don’t know where you are but skilled involves more than picking up stuff
First red flag is Ethernet drop installed by a electrician.
This is a total rip off. Sorry. There’s nothing that can justify this amount for a 45 min job.
You are a bad son for not just doing it for your mom before she had to call someone in.
Damn! I did almost 48 drops in my house and all sorts of custom work for wall mounted tv installations and other low voltage stuff…I can’t even imagine how much I saved by doing it myself!
That price sounds like the “didn’t want to do it” price.
If there’s really no obstructions or obstacles with a drop ceiling then we’d probably charge something like $500. If it’s a normal house where we’re cutting up walls, etc it’s $1,000 per run minimum - and we don’t patch or paint.
PS - electricians are known for using the absolute shittiest Ethernet line. I swear wherever they get their 5e from could be mistaken for telephone line. I’d make sure he used good cabling for that pricing and followed punch down standards.
1k isnt bad in NYC Ill pay that for a 1 proper run
Was the rack already setup and populated?
Yes.
OMG! I do same work and would of charged based on how far the run is to the switch but if there are no obstacles you run into, ie plumbing or homes electrical power lines in the way then it a low voltage cert tech would charge around 300.00 no more She hired a licensed electrician though & they do charge considerably more but over 900 does sound like a thief.
He took one look at the the server rack and figured his level of pricing.
I run drops on the side.
$125 per drop with open access $200 per drop through closed walls and ceilings - repairs to drywall not included $250+ per drop for anything in attics or roof lines.
Your mom got ripped off hard.