Garden Lighting

Andrew_Ryan_89

Hey guys, recently I called over a electrician tit a light and remove some cables from the garden. I asked for a quote about installing 4-6 garden ;lights and a security light. Just for labour, he said I will be looking at £700.

I don't see how hard it is to run a cable around a garden and put up a light. Is this quote fair?

somethingcorporate

Looks a touch pricey, depends how big your garden is and where in the country you are.

Get a second/third quote.

Money_saving_maniac

Do you have Windsor Great Park as your back garden?

brightontraveller

[FONT=&quot]Seven lights in total could easily be that and higher you’ve not posted enough details e.g. [FONT=&quot]D[/FONT]istance, [FONT=&quot]I[/FONT]nstallation method e.g surface , trench etc, [FONT=&quot]G[/FONT]arden construction e.g foot of concrete? all over grass etc, [FONT=&quot]C[/FONT]ables to be used swa etc, [FONT=&quot]W[/FONT]hat lights are fixing [FONT=&quot]too e[FONT=&quot].[/FONT]g. P[/FONT]utting in new post,. [FONT=&quot]T[/FONT]o existing supports etc, [/FONT][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]W[/FONT]hat are they removing 2" of cable stuck out of the groun[FONT=&quot]d or 100 [FONT=&quot]meters[/FONT] of cable [FONT=&quot]buried[/FONT] in 2ft of concrete[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&quot] ? [FONT=&quot]J[/FONT]ust asking if labour is high without any other info is only going to get morons or ill informed guessing :rotfl: [/FONT]

Andrew_Ryan_89

The garden is probably no bigger than 10mx7m and is pretty square.The circuit board (which he says he will have to fit a new one so the main one doesn't keep tripping), is in the kitchen "next door" to the garden. I'm pretty sure no digging is required. There was a standard, indoor lead the previous owner had running from the kitchen to the shed which we had removed because even with my non-professional eye I could tell it looked unsafe so wed had it removed.

brightontraveller

Andrew_Ryan_89 wrote: »

The garden is probably no bigger than 10mx7m and is pretty square.The circuit board (which he says he will have to fit a new one so the main one doesn't keep tripping), is in the kitchen "next door" to the garden. I'm pretty sure no digging is required. There was a standard, indoor lead the previous owner had running from the kitchen to the shed which we had removed because even with my non-professional eye I could tell it looked unsafe so wed had it removed.

Its client doesn’t know what’s being installed and in this case how and where then what did they tell electrician to do? More importantly what has the company put on there estimate/quote if it just says labour £700 nothing else then pretty impossible to know if its high or low price I see its already gone from seven lights and removing exiting cable etc to adding a CU in kitchen without knowing exactly what quote/estimate includes (this means posting it as you received it) your wasting your time....