Re: Wire prices

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Jun 17, 9:24?am, "Bob La Londe" <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Jun 16, 1:29?pm, "Bob La Londe" <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> Well, we aren't talking about just a couple miles of wire like most jobs.
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> > Hey Bob, you aren't actually wiring each of your jobs directly back to
> > the central station ...... are you?
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> > Now lookit ..... you're actually supposed to use the local TELEPHONE
> > service to do that.    Dint anyone ever splain that to you?   :-)
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> LOL.  Actually if you went back and added it up I bet you would find that
> several of your bigger jobs have a couple miles of wire in them.  My first
> one like that was a network cabling job with 200 hundred drops about ten
> years ago.  No run more than a couple hundred feet, but it adds up quick.
> We used a little under 4 miles of cat 5 cable on that one building.
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> Actually when I think about it some of the fire alarm systems I worked on
> before I used more wire than that, and of course I have done buried plant
> before too.
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> The job in particular I am thinking of has a couple miles of buried plant,
> and a ton of access and video as well as burg, phone, network, etc etfc
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I don't do large commercial anymore but I can't imagine how many miles
of wire I've installed through the years. The latest resi job of any
size had, I'd guess, about 2 miles total. 72 windows, 10 doors, audio
glass in every room, plus whole house audio,surround sound two
locations,  video, network, telephone.

In the past, I would not even consider the cost of wire but lately on
bigger jobs, I add 2/3 hundred for wire and also for fuel,  if there's
any amount of travel.  I add it to a line item labeled " wire,
hardware, misc parts and material    $+++.++ which can always be
explained away if questioned about details. Clamps, screws,
connectors, tape, tiewraps, stapels, pre construction brackets, foam
sealent, wire, junction boxes, coffee and snacks, lunch, bribes to
officals  etc.