I don't know any contractors that do not mark up the materials they supply.

It is part of doing business.

Can anyone think of a business that supplies products at their costs?

The amount of mark up varies greatly.

Wire nuts big mark up, expensive items smaller mark up.

Take a walk through the hardware aisle of your local super market, you can find packs of five wire nuts for $4.00, rolls of electric tape so small I would throw them away but yet they get $2.00 for them.

Do you think this is their costs?


Bob Badger
Construction & Maintenance Electrician
Massachusetts