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Electrician prices

  • 21-08-2018 9:37pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭


    Hi Can someone please help.
    I have recently started out on my own. I usually price time and labor. Can someone give me an idea of how to price per item. Eg per socket and do u charge for a light and a light switch or just a light? I’m new pricing this way. So any help would be greatly appreciated


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Light would be for say down lighter around 50.

    Socket around 100.

    Break down cost of cable, back box, socket etc and work from there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    If you price for time now, just price for time and material.

    It's that simple. An estimate is the sum of thousands of guesses.

    Work out the cost of your materials

    So this is a sample

    Your 150M of 3*2.5.sq.mm cable

    Say it costs 50 cent a meter and one tradesperson can install 200M per hour.

    If you need 150M

    Pop it into Excel

    200M in 1 hour is 1/200= .005

    Work your labour into hours. Use decimals for this so half an hour is 0.5 hours quater if an hour is 0.25 etc

    Say your cost labour rate including non productive time (you've to pay prsi, pension 9 bank holidays , holidays etc

    So for example if the rate you pay the tradesperson is 24 euro. The cost to your business for him might be 36 euro per hour

    So hold 36 euro as your cost labour rate


    So 150M meter if cable is as follows

    Material + Labour
    (150M*0.5) + (150M* .005)

    75 euro + .75 hours

    Cost per hour @36

    75 +27 = 102 euro cost to you

    Mark up as needed.

    That's rough but it's the principal of it

    Test you labour Norms so say pick something you know like say you know you wire and install 4 sockets per hour

    Make sure your estimate isn't too far off that for labour when you add up all the bits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    A friend has bought a house that has been idle for 7 months with the electricity turned off.

    He knows the person who lived there and there was never any electrical or other issues with the house, it's a 10 year old timber frame build.

    He needs to get an electrician to RECI certify it, anyone have a rough idea of how much it will cost presuming everything is still working as it should be?

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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