tom_boy wrote:I am in the process of putting up a 4br maisonette and I have reached the point where I need to do the wiring. The quote from the QS was 200k to do the electrical installation for the whole house. Sasa, I have kwamad after doing the slab and I want to finish downstairs (2br, sitting cum dining, kitchen, study and 3 baths)and move in kwanza. The electirican has given me a qoute of 200k just to do the downstairs. The major cost is the wires where he says I will need 13 rolls of red, and 10 rolls each of green and black. Now, considering that a roll is 90 metres long and the house is 18m x 9.5m, and seeing the discrepancy with the QS quote for the whole house, I feel I may be getting ripped off. Please can anyone advise how I can go about estimating how much wire I will need?
200k may not be way too off. Did a 4 br house last year, and my wiring costed 218K. Have at least 2 sockets per bedroom (some rooms as many as 5:) )
My spend was split as follows:
+Wall pipings - 8865/-
+Ceiling pipings - 5615/-
+Wires - 80k (22 rolls of 1.5mm (RGB), 12 rolls of 2.5mm, 30m of 6mm, 48m of 10mm (16m of each set).
+Switches, sockets, circuit breakers etc - 20k
+Labour - 50k (all the work, from pipings to testing)
NB: East African cables have outlets in majors towns, and will happily sell you even one roll. By the time I was doing my wiring, a roll of 1.5mm was going for 1800/- but I understand now its about 2400/-