A tad high, but I wouldn't expect it to be less than $250-300.Let me know if this seems expensive $400 to hook up one power point and one light in a garage that I am laying all the conduit and pulling the wires through .
They all sound " in the ballpark". Actually $45 for a batten holder sounds like a bargain.NBS said:Or $700 supply and fit 5 smoke detectors Or maybe $45.00 for one batten holder
I dunno, I find tradies' quotes very unpredictable. Usually I'm left thinking "gee, that's steep!", but occasionally they're less than I anticipate, so I think it's really hard to gauge. I'm not sure whether this variability is because:
a) sometimes they don't want the job and quote high so if they get it, they make good money, and if they don't get the job, they don't care;
b) I'm just hopeless at estimating how much work is involved in a job and they're better at it than I am;
c) they randomly pluck figures from thin air; or
d) a bit of all the above.