Its not just electrical guys, all construction materials are sky rocketing. I am building a new house right now. The framing package was $17K ten months ago. I was going to start building then but had to have spine surgery so I held off till this spring. Now the framing package is $26K...ouch.
I got wind of the copper increase before the end of last year and bought 180,000 ft of 12/2 @ $92 per thousand. It has helped because now it's at $138 per thousand here.
Did a restaurant service this week and paid $1.42 a foot for 3/0 THHN. Put a bid into the GC to go to the xfmr bank (up the pole) to the CT can and he flipped. Kinda expensive to parallel 4/0 copper for 225 ft!
[This message has been edited by arseegee (edited 03-24-2004).]
