Cost estimation electrical planning

500€ expense allowance to provide a plan with 23 sockets for an entire house? :oops:

500€ expense allowance to deliver a plan with 23 sockets for an entire house? :oops:

I would have been sure that someone was trying to rip me off at the latest after that statement and would have looked around very quickly...

Yes, maybe. But it doesn't help. The contract with the GU/BU/BT whatever is signed and it includes a construction service description. The construction service description states what you get as electrical installation. If you want more, you have to upgrade. And then you're at God's mercy. Some electricians are fair, some take advantage of the situation. Stupid, yes. But since no one forces you to pay 90 EUR for a socket and you can also say no, it's okay like that.

You knew before signing what you were buying. If the layman can't make sense of it, unfortunately that's his problem.

No company informs a customer that he is currently buying far too little. They earn money through expensive change orders. That's how it is. Everywhere.

If the electrician is the last trade, the acceptance will definitely take place afterwards? So have everything included according to the construction service description done by the main contractor electrician, then hire your own for the rest. So the main contractor installs a simple socket at point X and your own electrician then expands it to a 2 or 3 gang socket. Plan as cleverly as possible so that the main contractor has to pull all cables to the simple sockets. This makes it easier for your own electrician than having to start pulling cables as well. Except where it cannot be avoided.

That way you definitely wipe the floor with the electrician of the general contractor ;) Because the simple socket brings the lowest or actually no profit at all in the mixed calculation. He makes the profit with double and multiple sockets, where only one cable is needed, but he charges the socket price x times.

Hm... from my own experience, about 80 sockets for a single-family house is actually the minimum. I wouldn't have thought so during the complete renovation of the electrical system in the existing building either, but now we're glad to have a total of 98 sockets plus network, plus electric roller shutters. Renovation costs were €16K, just as a rough estimate.