60 to 100 amp upgrade
Hello, just got an estimate from an electrician for $6500 to upgrade a one family, 2 story mason house in Lefferts Garden to 100 amps. He’ll need to dig up the sidewalk and that price doesn’t include putting it back. Any thoughts on whether or not that’s a good price? Thank you.
Hello, just got an estimate from an electrician for $6500 to upgrade a one family, 2 story mason house in Lefferts Garden to 100 amps. He’ll need to dig up the sidewalk and that price doesn’t include putting it back. Any thoughts on whether or not that’s a good price? Thank you.
I am buying a building in Greenpoint that needs to be upped from a 100 amp to a 200 amp in order to accommodate 3 units. Our building inspector told us it would cost us $1200 tops, to do that. That price seems really fishy.
I’m agreeing with what Ysabelle said, but funny story…Of all the day laborers and craigslist guys I’ve hired, it was the licensed electrician I got from the county list that stole some power tools out of our basement. And we had to go over his work too! This wasn’t in Brooklyn.
I had my house upgraded from 30 amps to 100 in 1974. That has been adequate, but, if someone is having a new electric service installed, is this still considered a good figure for a one family house?
Also, after reading the post about Federal Pacific boxes, I went downstairs to check the brand of mine. It’s an Arrow Hart Murray; is that brand considered to be OK?
I have a house that’s over 100 years old and previously had a problem with water coming in thru the Con Ed feed, essentially a pipe that runs underground into which cables are fed (just like a conduit within the house). Why would the street need to be torn up?
When you choose your electrician, please check his license with the
bureau of electrical control in your borough.
There are several hacks out there.
Insurance for electrical work is a whole other subject.
Make sure both are in good standing.
you need somebody that has both.
Just speaking with Con Ed’s Energy Servics Dept. — they insist that a licensed electrician send in a work request to them. THey’ll send out an inspector who will determine what needs to be done. They can’t tell me anything else about who does what w/out an inspector coming out to the house. Seems odd that they can’t look at their records to see what my house has now and what would be entailed in increasing the amperage.
Why does your contractor need to dig up the sidewalk? Con Edison will run the new line directly to your house. Your electrician only needs to install new wiring from the Con Ed point of entry to the upgraded fuse box panel.
To upgrade from a Federal Pacific 125 amp box to a GE 150 amp I paid $1000. When we went from 30 amp fuses to the 125 amp box years ago, it was Con Ed that drew the underground line into the house.
THE OLD FEDERAL PACIFIC BOXES ARE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS AND THEY LOST THE UL APPROVAL YEARS AGO.
Sounds expensive for a new 100A cable. You will probably require a new meter also. I would recommend you contact Con Ed to see what they say.