CALLING ALL ELECTRICIANS!!!! Help, I involve to know in the order of how much it would cost to install electrical outlets.? I just bought a different home, and during home inspection realized that...
I just bought a different home, and during home inspection realized that here are no outlets where at hand should be. For example, why didn't this house have outlets surrounded by the bathrooms???? (We asked the owner to install, they said NO) Anyway, I need to know roughly how much it would cost to have roughly 5-6 more outlets put into this home? When you put in more outlets, does that increase the amount of amps surrounded by the home?? This home has a 100-amp service...is that moral for an average 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath home?? Can anyone refer me to an excellant electrican surrounded by the Philadelphia area??
You bought a home but not a new one, I assume... Is this a stickbuilt (wood structure) or a modular type mobile home...? Older stickbuilt homes have a 100 amp service and single wide mobile homes hold a 100 amp service but for special exceptions... Newer homes all enjoy a 200 amp service and is required everywhere now...
Thus, I assume you own an older stickbuilt home next to a 100 amp service. Because of the laws, you can't newly go placing outlets anywhere you please...especially around sinks and waterpipes and appliances. Your home really should hold an electrical inspection by a professional before going further. You should own requested that before buying so the the owner would enjoy had to earnings for it and the required changes to comply next to the electrical code...
A good electrician can ring out your 100 amps and determine what you can append on and also tell you what the tenet requires regarding ground reprimand recepticles, distance from pipes and wire sizes... He will also be capable of see where most dated wires are hidden base on standards he is familiar near... When he is finished he will be able to let somebody know you what is the most you may add on surrounded by the future as okay and also whether you are able to install a 200 amp service subsequently...
One mistake and you can lose your home so do it right regardless of cost and, for gosh sakes, avoid extension cords entirely if possible and use just 14 gauge ones if you must...
You will find electricians surrounded by the yellow page but I would suggest you locate the electrical union department near you and post your career there... Either that or ask around the village and you may find a licensed electrician willing to moonlight...
Check out that hot wet and heating system closely also...
Good luck...but think twice...
If you havent closed next tell the owner minus adding outlets contained by the bathroom you wont close the deal . If you hold actually bought this house next shame for not looking more closely. Any older home will hold some problem or other.
In the state I live, it is required that the bathroom outlets be GFCI (ground fault circuit interupted) outlets or the circuit breaker is GFCI for any outlets surrounded by bathrooms or kitchens ( near any sea source. Any upgrade such as this would require that you bring the home to code, such as a 200 amp service and having GFCI outlet or circuit breakers. Since the electrical wishes are more than when this home was built after it probably needs what I mentioned. With that said I would expect to drop substantial change due to the price of copper and/or aluminum wiring, and as you would expect the cost of labor to install said items. I installed in my own home 2 outlets, couple of switches and a motion sensor spotlight for my sheltered porch and it cost me $150-$200 saving deeply of money. Yours sounds like much more labor intensive and a upgrade could run big bucks. Adding 5 or 6 more outlets surrounded by a bathroom will most likely require its own circuit and routing unmarked cable from power box.
as for a electrician, your on your own simply because im not in your nouns. And check the laws within your state as to what you may do yourself. I do my own work as I have an childhood in electronics and feel comfortable doing the work. In some states electrical work is required to be performed by trained those and signed off on by a master electrician. Check the law.
Answers: It depends on how difficult it is to return with to the inside walls where the recepticles own to go. Obviously, the more difficult, the more cost because of time spent doing the post. The materials are minimal.
For example, I have charged $25-$75 per outlet depending on the work involved.
Your 100 amp service is minimal at best. I wouldn't recommend anything smaller quantity than a 200 amp service. I suspect it is an older home.
This is glib for me to say as I am not the one trying to buy the home, but I would insist on an electrical upgrade and recepticles where on earth I want them, or I would walk away. It is a buyers open market out there and at hand are lots of homes available for sale.
If he requests to sell desperate enough, he will comply.
no way! you want a larger service for a home that large.