I doubt if you could find anyone to do the job if you were providing
materials. People like to use what they are used to using. Anything
else is perceived as a PITA. Plus, there's liability problems, etc.
etc.

Before you go ballistic, see what the price of the inspection is.


Eigenvector wrote:
"Jack" wrote in message
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Eigenvector wrote:
I'm calling around for some sort of quotes to replace my failing circuit
breaker box and so far I've only received one estimate.

The price they quoted was about $2500 bucks roughly or $91/hour for their
work - including permit and inspection. No other electricians want to
release their hourly rate nor provide estimates. I'm not bitter about
it,
just interested in how much money I'll have to secure to do this.

So if you had to guess, what would it cost to replace a non-grounded
circuit
breaker with a grounded circuit breaker IF I SUPPLIED THE BREAKERS AND
THE
PANEL.

$2500.00 sounds to me like they should be holding a gun to your head.
Not knowing particulars I would ball park around 300 to 500 or less
being your furnishing the materials.


That's kind of what I was thinking, that the quote was totally high. My
presumption is that he didn't want my buisness or was just trying to make
sure I knew what I was getting into. Again I'm not bitter about it, but
this is one of those things I need to get done pretty quick, so I didn't
want to go in blind and get taken.