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[Electrified]

Are you a contractor, or did you get the rate that you are suggesting? Saying mark up and labor "should be" less is easy to say, unless you got it yourself, or are offering. Every city is different, and I also got a quote closer to 20k for this system, though it included a propane tank and running new gas lines (northern California).

Yes. I figured 10% sales tax plus 25% mark up on the genset. Contractor cost for a union electrician in Chicago is $100.00 PH, $150.00 PH is a loaded service rate. Also I based it on a NG line being in the vicinity of the existing electrical service, thus no propane tank.

 

[Slam08]

I got an estimate for a generac whole home backup a year and a half ago. They quoted me 7k. I thought it was too much. The same guy came back to install an EV charger. He said that now it would cost 20k. For the same thing. This is Chicago suburbs.

 

[DJL]

24K? The genset with tax and 25% profit should be $8,500.00 and typical labor for resi install should be about 24 man hours @$150.00 PH, so that's $3,600.00, plus another $1,000.00 to $1,500.00 for materials.

[IN STOCK] 22kW Generac Generator + 200A SE Rated ATS 7043

National Best-Seller—Guardian 22kW Standby Generator + 200-Amp SE-Rated ATS Backs Up Entire House—Load Control for Multiple 5-Ton A/C Units

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That is what I intially thought also. However, when the contractor came and inspected our service panel and the restricted location when the generator (and its $2400 noise cover) would need to be located, the wire run ened up being over 120 feet from the service panel. When you add the cost of the switch to everything, the bid was just under $24K. The cost of the genset was just a small part of the overall cost. We finally walked away from doing this because we discovered that our HOA required a noise limit of 55db at the property boundry. We coud not meet that even with the $2.4K sound cover! Sigh!
The bi-directional charger gets us to where we want to be (i.e., 2 - 3 days worth of service) so we can live comfortably during the power outages which sometimes ocurr up here in the extreme corner of the Pacific Northwest.

 

[DJL]

24K? The genset with tax and 25% profit should be $8,500.00 and typical labor for resi install should be about 24 man hours @$150.00 PH, so that's $3,600.00, plus another $1,000.00 to $1,500.00 for materials.

[IN STOCK] 22kW Generac Generator + 200A SE Rated ATS 7043

National Best-Seller—Guardian 22kW Standby Generator + 200-Amp SE-Rated ATS Backs Up Entire House—Load Control for Multiple 5-Ton A/C Units

www.norwall.com

Hey, if you think you can install it here for that price, I am all in!!!!

 

[Electrified]

Hey, if you think you can install it here for that price, I am all in!!!!

The base price for a simple install was $13,600.00, your 120' run would add $6,900.00 (hard clay trenching, more for rock and shale), then you have the $2,400.00 sound attenuation adder for a grand total of: $22,900.00

 

[DJL]

The base price for a simple install was $13,600.00, your 120' run would add $6,900.00 (hard clay trenching, more for rock and shale), then you have the $2,400.00 sound attenuation adder for a grand total of: $22,900.00

Yep, that is pretty close to where the bid came in at!