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In Canada, I don't think you can rough in a 2000 foot house in less than 3 days. (2 men) Since it's your first house, I would allow 4 or 5. Residential is a lot harder than commercial and industrial. More people pick over your work.
Add time for a panel that's far from the kitchen, pot lights, lights over stair wells, built-in stuff, etc. Even an island in the kitchen can be an extra trip to the site. How about a finished basement?
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"Manys the time that a GC is bringing you on board because of fiascos in his own very recent past. A GC will always toss out totally absurd numbers to a newbie. "
Very true. Price your own and don't fall for the lead on (suggested retail)price.
I just finished 2 for a GC,The EC retired and moved,
1- The addition he told me ' Ed only has about $1500 left on this one.' Paid me $2200.-
2- New house,Finish, 'I owe him about $2400,'
Me,$4200.
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Leland:
Out of curiousity, how much time for the two above?
John
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Last year when we were talking about this I got the price a national builder was paying for a typical 2K sq/ft house in SW Fla. $4543 was the negotiated price for the last one they had on record (labor).
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When i apprenticed in the early 90's, we roughed in a house, pulling wire only in two days, it took another 2-3 days to splice and terminate the panel, and a couple of days to finish....now keep in mind the cost of copper and materials were less but the ec was usually in the 6-8 thousans range, lighting excluded... I would imagine that today it must cost at least 10-14 thousand for the average house....
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candyman:
Just a thought on my end....keep in mind some of us are referencing US dollars, not Canadian $. I'm not up on the exchange rates!
John
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for once the canadian dollar is worth more, about .005 cents more.....
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OK, so for discussion, minus math, we are roughly the same.
PS: It may be easier to convert the 'labor time' into man hours for comparison.
I'm curious to see how much Leland invested in his two jobs above.
John
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yea, me too...I was thinking around 100 man hours start to finish.....what do you think???
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North Van you should get top $$ in That area IMHO
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