re: Labor Only Electrician

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It will be the same cost either way if the electrician knows how to make a quote

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Lol, no it won’t. Not close.

Op, I highly doubt you will find this. I’ve worked with guys like this before and they aren’t cheap. The only person that would do that is likely as their side hustle and it has to be worth their time. Not professional is going to do that for you, or at least 95% won’t.

There’s a significant mark up for errors, omissions, and un knowns. If they would normally quote a job at say $100/ hour plus parts plus 10% markup they will quote you $120-150 just for labor .

Let’s say something isn’t quite right and you want them to come back to fix it. You aren’t going to pay him for that. Therefore he has to include that in his initial quote, as a mark up. You wanting to go cheap ( I don’t blame you fwiw) aren’t going to pay extra outside of just for his actual time worked. So he’s going to charge you extra hourly rate to compensate for that.

This is just my experience and as a business owner what I would do.

Op, get quotes for the job first and then get quotes for labor only. Then compare. I think you’ll find it very hard for labor only quotes.