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From: "Mike J" thespam

"HA HA Budys Here" wrote in message
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From: "Mike J" thespam
I am also building new house.
Electrical work is a racket. Installing $7 HALO light cost $100
Even a Halo trim is more than 7.00.

You are wrong. HD (at least here) sells contractors pack 10 lights + 10
trims for $69

I've seen 6-packs for 69.00 and not HALO brand, but the HD house brand.

Even if the hi hat was free, you still have to pay for the wiring. A extra
standard ceiling light only costs about 2.50 for the cheep-o fixture they
provide, it's the outlet, switch and labor of installing the boxes, measuring,
drilling holes etc that you're paying for.

My builder claims that outlet on the dust ledge in MB must be GFI so $150
charge.
All receptacles in a Master Bath must be GFCI, Including a dust ledge.

Darn I meant MB as Master Bedroom, i don't see any water near by, or can
find any code
that requires that.

It would need AFCI protection then, in a bedroom. If it's just there for
convenience though it could be on the regular bedroom circuit.

Microwave has to have dedicated curcuit, but when builder install own MW
it doesn't.

So let the builder install it.

While dumoW works hard to ship my job to India, I'll not waste money to
maximize
dumbo's economy, or builders proffits.

That's entirely up to you, however, don't blame the subs for wanting extra
money and profit for doing extra work.

In the 80's I wired houses and they were paying 175.00 for EACH extra Hi-Hat
back then. 4 in each a room and 8 or 9 in livingrooms and dens was typical.
These houses were typically larger and not uncommon to see people either went
for it or went for nothing extra at all.

So to hear electricians are charging only 100.00 now is quite a shock to me.

That is if you're capable of detecting a problem. Obviously you are not.
A
basement requires a 15a convenience outlet GFCI protected. That is all.
There
is no provision in the code requiring it be "dedicated." You'll likely get
that
outlet connected to a front and rear outdoor outlet and a garage outlet
all on
the same circuit, protected by 1 GFCI or a GFCI circuit breaker.

Fine, can it be connected to water heater as builder claims?

No it can't and it wouldn't. It sounds to me like the "builder" is really a
salesman.

I don't see a
big
deal if it connected to outside outlet.

An additional light or lights is work. 100.00 is getting off easy no
matter
what the height.

Not when You install six of them, or more. They are very easy to wire and
install.

It's not rocket science and never was. It's still labor and materials and
profit. Usually it'll require more circuits as well especially when one uses
them in every room.

The issue at bay one can do it, w/o wasting $1000s ! No need to call
electrican.

I've never known a builder or sub to even offer "pre-wire."

Ours does. Switch + wire = $50
And they are one of top 5 builders in US.

5) Sneak in additional wires after electrical inspection.
Usually, before the sheetrock goes up the electrican does a once-over.

Not true... Contractor get's paid per job. I spend a lot of time at the
site.
I think contractors started to think I am one of them. On all other houses
electrican had one visit. He does pretty good job, I never seen him fail
inspection