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18k for damaged household cable
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coppice:

--- Quote from: tom66 on May 13, 2023, 09:31:51 am ---I don't get the "bringing up to code" thing.  The invoice she showed had line items for plumbing, like checking the kitchen drains and the bathroom faucet.  What would that have to do with the electrics? Even if you had to bring the whole panel up to code, I can't see it costing $18k.  The cable repair should cost a tenth of that too.  I think this poor woman got ripped off on the repair as well as by the negligent contractor.   :-//

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The kitchen drains and bathroom faucet are presumably included for the same reason they would be included in the UK - grounding.
AVGresponding:

--- Quote from: coppice on May 15, 2023, 07:25:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on May 13, 2023, 09:31:51 am ---I don't get the "bringing up to code" thing.  The invoice she showed had line items for plumbing, like checking the kitchen drains and the bathroom faucet.  What would that have to do with the electrics? Even if you had to bring the whole panel up to code, I can't see it costing $18k.  The cable repair should cost a tenth of that too.  I think this poor woman got ripped off on the repair as well as by the negligent contractor.   :-//

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The kitchen drains and bathroom faucet are presumably included for the same reason they would be included in the UK - grounding.

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Under current regs you just have to earth bond gas and water at the incomers, not taps/basins/sinks/drainers etc.
coppice:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on May 16, 2023, 05:54:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on May 15, 2023, 07:25:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on May 13, 2023, 09:31:51 am ---I don't get the "bringing up to code" thing.  The invoice she showed had line items for plumbing, like checking the kitchen drains and the bathroom faucet.  What would that have to do with the electrics? Even if you had to bring the whole panel up to code, I can't see it costing $18k.  The cable repair should cost a tenth of that too.  I think this poor woman got ripped off on the repair as well as by the negligent contractor.   :-//

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The kitchen drains and bathroom faucet are presumably included for the same reason they would be included in the UK - grounding.

--- End quote ---

Under current regs you just have to earth bond gas and water at the incomers, not taps/basins/sinks/drainers etc.

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When did they drop the requirement to go through the whole plumbing chain to ensure plastics are not interrupting the earth bond?
jpyeron:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on May 15, 2023, 05:14:49 pm ---The charge for the 2" conduit doesn't add up, at all. $4500? For ~150 feet of conduit @$30/10ft? Surely that's $450?

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Please check my math. Pretty sure I can multiply. :o


 150
x 30
====
 000
450
====
4500
.RC.:

--- Quote from: jpyeron on May 15, 2023, 12:44:47 pm ---
Trenching @125 ft   


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Were they trenching for NASA?

That is an insane rate.  I thought even the electrician rates at US$125/hr was a bit rude.   I thought here in Australia (not Austria) was bloody expensive for an electrician, but they are way cheaper then that.
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