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I'm confused. If you bid it before it should just be a dollar adjustment on the hours you had on the previous bid. 320 sounds reasonable. Night and weekend job ? I wouldn't want customers getting in the way, liability issues and slowing the job down

I'm sorry. I left out that my previous bid was to run across the roof on the Arlington roof toppers. The other electrician bid running inside. They plan on doing the roof over in a couple years and we all know roofers. The last jobs I did like this I used Aluminum rigid on the roof so that is what I am more familiar with. It's been maybe 10 years since I ran inside with existing tenants. Inside I have to disrupt a liquor store, a pizza place, a Chinese take out, a nail salon, and a hair salon. They are not going to be happy. I have a habit of short changing my time.

Thanks for the input. I did not think if after hours.

 

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I kind of

Both good points. I would assume you're going to have to firestop every penetration between tenants.

I wouldn't bid this without a thorough look over the ceilings no matter how much of a hurry they are in, you could take it in the shorts

I kind of know the building but do not recall what was above the ceilings. I bid the store renovations two years ago but did not get it. I think I will submit a price pending the architect 'approval and me looking at the ceilings. This would be a good job for the up coming recession. I feel they want a budget number.

 

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Add a little more time then so you won’t be as mad at yourself as you were last time.

I added 20% for extra time

 

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No option to run along the back of the building near the roof?

That was the second option but there are 6 inch PVC down spouts for the roof drainage and a lot of gas piping, windows, and exhaust fans to go over.

 

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Aluminum rigid is cheaper than EMT so I would like to go the roof method.

 

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Hurry up and budget don’t belong in the same job scope.

2-1/2 in EMT is $8.50/ft
2-1/2 in AL is $12.50/ft

EMT you have to add for the couplings and connectors. I got a price of $100. per stick of 2 1/2 EMT and $98.00 for Aluminum.

 

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Consider these before you rule out going around the outside - probably $1,000.00 of brackets but it could easily pay for itself, think how fast 400 feet would go... it might even simplify getting down to the panels.

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Thank you. I was looking at something like that but was going to have them made . If they sell them made up that would save time. I have to check it out.

 

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So are you going to use factory bends or are you going to bend it? I'd be using factory bends. I'd rather make the money for the labor for bending than give it to the factory, but there will be less scrap and less temptation to get artistic, less chance of things going south.

Is this mostly straight shots across the back of the stores, just under the bar joists? If so that part is pretty easy to estimate.

Depending on the construction of the demising walls between tenants, the penetrations could be easy if it's a single block, hard if it's some bunker type construction.

I would see the big unknown the last 50' of each run.

Don't forget to check current pricing on your JB's, LB's, mogul LB's, and C condulet bodies carefully.

Put an expiration date on the quote, put an escalation clause in there, etc. etc. cover every eventuality just in case.

What I have done in the past is run the EMT in the bar joist rather than under. I could push 100 feet from one location and strap it down when done. What got me now concerned is what people cautioned about, duct work and other obstructions. I usually keep log books of the jobs I do for future reference and what problems arise and how long major tasks actually took but I did a major office cleaning and things got thrown out. Like the old Atlite trims that sat on the shelf for 30 years until I thru them out. Four months later an electrician friend of mine needed two.

 

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Everyone I deal with says they need prices immediately and the are going to move on it ASAP. Then the jobs sits for 3 months and then they call you and you have to reprice.

That is exactly what is happening here. The sewer water leaking out of the fittings has been going on for years. I looked at this last fall. The original electrical contractor used EMT in the sand below the slab so it seems after 50 years, everything rotted out. These things don't fix themselves.