Much Needed Electrician Advice!

heelzballer

heelzballer

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Quick question...Getting a shed wired from house outside breaker box...

Adding a new 200amp breaker to outside box, trenching 100ft of conduit to outside of shed...Setting up new box on outside, and then wire in 13 110 receptacles, and 3 220 receptacles inside the shed (12 x 32). My question is how much would you say the cost would be for all the abovementioned work? I am going to rent ditch witch and trench hole ahead of time...Much thanks
 
ElfoodStampo

ElfoodStampo

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I would call an electrician and find out! :)
200 Amp service is quite a bit for a "shed" are you sure you need that much juice?
All your costs will go down(-labor ) if you do a 100 amp service, which should be plenty. Also if your running a 200 or 250 amp service at the house you may be getting close to the 400 Amps that are coming from the pole. ( I could be wrong about hat but I'm almost positive its 400 amps from the transformer. )
 
theking2202004

theking2202004

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Renting a ditchwitch is expensive. If the conduit has high voltage it needs to be about 2ft in ground. They sell small electrical panels for 40-60 $ at Holmes depot. Conduit is cheap and I would get the wire 50 cents a foot from a iron salvage yard. I put 4 outlets in a shed for about 200 bucks. If you've never messed with running electrical, I wouldn't recommend doing it. You could die if you fuck up. Just my 2 pennies
 
SnapsProvolone

SnapsProvolone

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Get utilities marked before you dig. :)

I would probably charge you more, that's how I get when people get tight assed on me when the materials aren't free and I didn't learn a trade to do favors. Loose the penny pinching mentality, get some bids and don't pick the lowest or highest.
 
smoke the tires

smoke the tires

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lots of houses still don't have a 200 amp box. when i bought my house it still had a 60 amp pushmatic panel box. it wouldn't even run my dryer. you have to take into consideration the load in the house too.
 
SnapsProvolone

SnapsProvolone

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May be suggested that you upgrade existing service or drop a second one on the detatched structure. 200 amps, probably going to set another meter on the detached structure, unless you have a 400/320 already or what you have is obsolete thus killing 2 birds with one stone...

Eyes of contractor must be onsite...
 
heelzballer

heelzballer

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I am inclined to think 200amps is overkill for shed...I'm only running 4 600w lumatek ballasts on 220, and 3 400w lumateks on a different 220...plus a couple of exhaust fans, two portable ac units, and other misc cfls and fans..

Buddy electrician has already been out and looked at house outside box, and my house is only a few years old, so no worries about that, and thankfully all wiring to house is on other side of house snaps, lol...

Was just trying to get a realistic price for the hundred feet of wiring and conduit to shed, installing a pole, and then wiring in receptacles 110 and 220 respectively..I've budgeted about 800 bucks for the work..But don't want to get ripped off..

Thanks for posts!
 
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mainliner

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your allowed to do all the prep work yourself, but not the wireing,,,dig the trench, buy the cable and the fittings and ask a local electrician to do the rest and you could even give him a hand to save money,there's laws in doing it youself, well there is in England,,,i was an electrcain for 5 years, got the shock burns to prove it, lol.
 
SnapsProvolone

SnapsProvolone

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No licensed sparky would quote this, or any job, without being onsite to view the big picture. So very many things involved...
 
heelzballer

heelzballer

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I've already had the electrician out here, and I should get a quote tomorrow--my primary reason for seeking advice was just so I wouldn't get ripped of on cost of the wire, conduit, receptacle costs, and amp costs to house breaker...

I will do the trench work myself, and my boy will help his electrician buddy when he does the work. Hopefully, it won't cost more than 1,200.00 to do.
 
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mainliner

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heelzballer said:
I've already had the electrician out here, and I should get a quote tomorrow--my primary reason for seeking advice was just so I wouldn't get ripped of on cost of the wire, conduit, receptacle costs, and amp costs to house breaker...

I will do the trench work myself, and my boy will help his electrician buddy when he does the work. Hopefully, it won't cost more than 1,200.00 to do.
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buy the cable and fittings yourself so you don't get ripped off
 
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