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Most construction materials are cheap. Especially at contractor rates. Labor is the expensive part. If you're a contractor you've got to have an hourly rate tha
by DubiousPusher 8y ago
Most construction materials are cheap. Especially at contractor rates. Labor is the expensive part. If you're a contractor you've got to have an hourly rate that covers your business expenses and pays you well. If it takes even just 20 hours of work to run all the Ethernet that's probably about $1500 added to the top line. Added a dozen features like that to a home and you're at $15,000-$20,000 higher asking price to make it worth your while.
- telotortium 8y ago20 hours for just Ethernet? That doesn't pass the sniff test. It seems like something that would be done concurrently with wiring the house, certainly with wiring coax. Even wiring an entire house should take a few hours at most when drywall isn't installed yet.
- DubiousPusher 8y agoNot sure. I've never done it but two long days doesn't seem that crazy to me. Even without drywall up, you're up on a ladder for parts, you gotta hang boxes, you gotta bore a bunch of holes, you gotta do the punching. It adds up. Between planning, routing, testing and the time it adds to drywalling I think it could be more. But again, I've never done it so I don't know for sure. I've just strung a fair amount of Romex which takes longer than you'd expect.