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I need a line run from my upstairs bedroom where the breaker is to the new garage, which is roughly 100'. There is a spot for a breaker in my current box.He quoted me $650, it sounds kinda high to me. How much should it run?
x2.How many amp 220 line? 100' is a lot of $ in wire alone.
50 i thinkhow Many Amp 220 Line? 100' Is A Lot Of $ In Wire Alone.
thats what I was afraid of hearing :barf:Pay the man before copper goes up again.
I agree with you on the sub panel in any garage, whether new or old.I would chack at Homless-Desperate. When I was wiring my garage, they had 125' prepackaged spools of 6Ga for about $140 (it's what I used for all EIGHT of my welder outlets in the new shop). Even if it's doubled since I bought my last one, we're still not even in the same neighborhood.
No, that was for copper 6Ga, 2 conductor plus ground, this is indoor/romex, NOT direct burial. The last one I bought was about 2 months ago.I'm assuming that the price you threw out for that 125' of 6 ga cable must have been for aluminum? That's waaaaaaay too cheap if you're looking at copper right now...
Still have to have the wire.I would just go the sub panel route.
Well yes, but he's bound to need another 220 circuit someday down the road and to avoid having an oversized breaker for the device that is being supported. It would be better to have a 60-100A sub in the garage.Still have to have the wire.
Why pay an electrician?
Yes, it's much better when a master electrician and master plumber leave ungrounded gfi's and ungrounded swtiches in a bathroom, wires nutted together in the wall, no box, leaking pipes, rusted off pipes plumbers puttied to the floor, electrified gas pipes...I HATE HANDY MAN ELECTRICIANS :mad3:
It was a licensed electrician that nearly killed me.I know several "handy man electricians" that I would trust to work on my stuff way before some "master electricians" I know of.