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DigitalUnlimited

Looks cheap honestly, depends entirely on the area and job type but I would charge more...


Endotracheal

I’ve done a bunch of camera systems, and that’s a guy who works pretty efficiently for everything he listed. Totally reasonable hour totals.


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stingbot

Especially if there is no call out fee too, every one of those days should have $200 call out fee on top


infinitevalence

Looks fair, even with 2 people pulling single runs of cable is hard.


noitalever

Yep, fair. Especially because it’s not the type of work that is just the same, repeated and consistent. So there is thought and processes and strategy and pondering and… that stuff all takes time.


balldatfwhutdawhut

Extremely reasonable.


chukijay

Go run some conduit, cable, cameras, then mount it all and terminate your connections and configure the cameras. You’ll see it’s not only fair, but your dad is getting his money’s worth, plus tax. I’m not being a jerk, either. It’s a serious undertaking. Source: I’m a career IT guy and do a lot of this


BitcoinSavesUs

This.... I stalled an 8 camera system and did all the above.. what's listed above is a steal


HighSpeed556

Looks normal to me. If not a little conservative.


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Yes that’s reasonable. Bending conduit takes time, so does fishing cable, mounting cameras, cat6 terminations, IPing cameras, aiming, focusing, programming, etc.


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Yes that’s reasonable. Bending conduit takes time, so does fishing cable, mounting cameras, cat6 terminations, IPing cameras, aiming, focusing, programming, etc. Edit: that’s actually more than reasonable.


GerrickMarland10

The highlighter is completely unreasonable, though.


geometrysquid

I lol'd 😂😂


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GAK6armor

Because when you charge a fixed labor rate per hour (let's say $100 per hour for simplicity) using decimals on an invoice is the easiest way to do it. One of my invoices will have whatever parts itemized with the cost of each, and below that let's say "4.5 hours labor -- $100/hr -- $450" That's not the best explanation but I hope it makes sense. We use 15 minute increments to keep the decimals looking relatively tidy. I'd post one of my invoices to make it clear but I don't want to dox myself lol


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GAK6armor

Ya they've got a third AND a quarter, seems like a headache to me personally that's why we use 15 min/.25hr increments only. We used to do half hour increments but it was annoying and sometimes customers would get mad for paying 2.5 hours labor if we only worked 2 hours 12 minutes or whatever.


Lifeissometimesgood

This was a good chuckle, thank you!


Jinzul

Looks good to me.


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If those are his real hours then that tech needs an increase on his salary. Am tech.


BitcoinSavesUs

Wow that looks very reasonable. I'm tech savvy. Installed my own system and it took about a 40 hours to finish all the runs, paint the conduit, and get everything set up and running


johnnyheavens

Considering that in some cases they ran conduit and ran cable, it seems more than fair. Depends on market but I have recentish quotes for $165-$235 a drop including termination, test, labeling, and certification but that’s probably assuming either drop ceiling, existing conduit, and or new construction. Also depends on number of drops overall and quality of materials. In either case the time component here looks good.


geometrysquid

Thank you, everyone! I appreciate all your feedback and I feel very comfortable with the bill. Normally wouldn't questions these things but there have been concerns in the past.


Empyrealist

You be nice to that man!


cowprince

No issue that I see. Pulling individual runs is time consuming, assuming the conduit wasn't already there, even more so. Now if it was there and there was pull string to all the locations, that's a different story.


satanyourdarklord

No that seems right. Depending on the amount of dudes on. A lot of that shit is time consuming as fuck


dgibbons0

It took me 6 hours to run three cameras for my father last week, this seems like a deal.


bryant891

More than fair I think. Based on what’s described they did very fast work for one person. That’s my 2 cents


Kiiikiiik

Looks reasonable to me,


FLGT12

I'll defer to the knowledge of the sub, but this is why I prefer to negotiate the project price if possible. It's nice to have the number preset imo.


cd36jvn

You do know project price will probably have you paying more as they'll inflate the price to make sure they are well covered?


DigitalUnlimited

This. If I'm unsure of how long something will take I try to always offer time and materials bill. If they push for a number I over inflate my bid, would rather lose the job than lose money.


FLGT12

If I have paid an inflated price it wasn’t much, the small premium (ymmv) was worth the elimination of the moving parts.


Lu12k3r

Times are reasonable but what does the work look like?


MrLexPennridge

Running wires through a conduit? Think about it! Are you nuts?


tuxbass

Wish I got access to such normally billed services!


KohtiSr

Extremely reasonable, In fact if that’s how long he took to do those installs I think he deserves a raise lol


Chance-Grab7702

As a technician who does this exact work I can say it’s pretty fair


ktn699

took me and my pops about 2 hours to run about 75 feet of type 6 copper wire and pvc pipe to install a tesla charger into our breaker box. that shit heavy and rigid AF. We not even done installing it into the outlet and breaker box either.


spywiz

Just curious. What was his hourly rate? Where is it located. The hours seem very fair!!