On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:49:50 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
wrote:

:
:"Dan_Musicant" wrote in message
: :
: :I beg to differ....that supervisor (or his company) is either a thief
: r stupid (in either case he is wrong) .... the increase in material
: :would be less than $100 closer to $50
: :
: :cheers
: :Bob
:
: Yeah, I told him on the phone the exact same thing except I didn't
: mention the $50. I gotta think they were just trying to see if they
: could squeeze a bunch out of me with that line. I don't think I'll use
: them again. Not unless I can see something to justify that $600 charge
: (which I declined, of course). I honestly think he might be stupid. Just
: don't know. How could he be THAT stupid?
:
:I just checked one source and the difference is $2.00 a foot at that place.
:I don't know if that is good or bad in the scheme of things and your local
lumbing supply, but I do know that copper is very expensive these days.
:$600 seems high, but $50 seems very low. How long of a run is it?
:
The run is approximately this:

30' or less of soft copper (i.e. underground from meter to the house).
That's not counting a piece that's about 7' or so that they sledge
hammered under the sidewalk. That was, of course, hard straight copper.

About 35' of hard copper under the house. I did check Home Depot's
prices for 10' lengths of hard copper a couple of weeks ago or so:

10' of 1" L copper tubing at Home Depot is $36
10' of 3/4" L copper tubing at Home Depot is $25

So, the under the house run price increase should be something like
under $50 at those rates. I don't know what the difference would be for
soft copper. It's hard for me to imagine that it would be several
hundred dollars on 30'.