My Mother hired a licensed electrician to install 1 ethernet drop in her home office. She already had a preexisting tp-link setup in the basement. She showed me the invoice today which totaled $958.00! I’m shocked and disgusted. Feels like they took advantage of my Mother.
I told my Mother to call them first thing tomorrow morning to see if they possibly made a mistake. If not, I advised her to never do business with that company again. This seems like highway robbery. Is there anything else she can do?
I work as a network cable tech in the US. Perhaps I could give a breakdown of the cost of this installation. For my labor, it’s $85/hr for a site visit, then $85/hr billed in 15-minute increments. Standard plenum cable costs somewhere around 0.37 cents a foot. A low voltage ring for the drywall costs somewhere around $5, and a keystone jack costs about $13 (although this does vary with the brand). A single port white faceplate costs around $2. I’ve done similar installs to this in residential areas, and if it’s an older home, getting a cable from point A to point B can be pretty difficult and time-consuming. That being said: I still don’t think this sort of install should cost upwards of $900.