Electrical Quote Input

[tenax]

i should have mentioned in my case, that the alberta market is on a boom with the electrical trade being the highest in demand..the "head" electricians for local companies i was told by my guy get together each morning for breakfast and discuss who may have time to take on a job and are sharing leads between them..that's how crazy it is..took me 6 weeks to find an electrician who had the time to do the job! (for all of 5 hours work)

the tech school in calgary has electrical companies lined up who are making the following offer to incoming students for the apprentice course. they will pay their room/board and pay them 18 per hour x 8 hours to go to school. no strings attached (no contract to sign) when they are finished but the company gets first shot to make them a work offer when they complete the course. unprecedented. the story also goes that in oil country in northern alberta, journeyman electricians contracting their services are making up to 300,000 per year (versus 3 years ago when the average was 80,000)

a guy who graduated from the local community college heavy duty mechanic program (and is the poster child for the college) took a job in the oil industry up north that started at 250,000 per year..no experience, top student in the class. he is 19 years old.

[matt4x4]

Alberta is the most expensive province right now, and you all have to keep in mind, plus, we've always paid 10-20% more than our US counterparts because of our dollar - yes, our dollar's gone up recently, however that does not mean jobs are starting to go for less, that doesn't get taken into account up here until our dollar sits at it's higher value for about a century!!!!

I think that's a relatively expensive quote you've got there, wbrady, you could specify the same and get a quote from another electrician, I certainly would.

[dawndenise]

Wow, tomcat...where are you located?? That price is phenomenal!

wbrady...I lived in MD just before moving back to TX and I think you're quote is right on. We had non-pool electrical work done in MD and if they'll take care of the permits, which was a major hassle in the county we lived in, that's already worth something!

Our electrical ran $2500 here in TX for the pool for about the same work, as near as I can judge. However, not only did we have to do the back-filling, we also had to do all the trenching!! Like maids that "don't do windows", the electricians around here "don't do trenching!" They tell homeowners to go out to some street corner somewhere and hire a few day laborers to do the trenching!

Then, due to what the PB thought was a bad SWCG panel (wasn't bad after all...), the PB switched it out but couldn't figure out how to reconnect it. Had to call out the electrician who spent 10 minutes connecting 3 wires/cables and then charged us another $75. Needlesss to say, we won't be calling him for any other electrical work we have to do.

[JohnT]

Had to call out the electrician who spent 10 minutes connecting 3 wires/cables and then charged us another $75. Needlesss to say, we won't be calling him for any other electrical work we have to do.

I doubt he charged you anything for making the connection. $75 is a pretty standard charge just to show up.