Right on the money dood.
I will sell the a/v stuff too though, but only stuff I can get a fair markup on, otherwise I tell the buyer if they can get a better price go for it and we'll just install it on T&M. Sheesh, what I make on connection cables is more than I'd make on a DVD or A/V reciever!!
"Jim" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... | | tourman wrote: | > Your post leads me to believe something that I have suspected all | > along. Full prices for systems in the US are considerably higher than | > we charge or can get in Canada. I know that is a generalization, but | > modifying a system for $2750 is about double what we can get for even a | > large system hereabouts even starting from scatch. I doubt that even | > ADT would charge those kinds of prices around here ! | >
| > I'd take that one too because the work would be well worth it at that | > pricing level. | >
| > RHC | >
| | I'm finding that in recent years that more jobs are falling into the | $3000.00 and up range, just for security installs. Then, on top of | security there's the possibility that one or all of of the following | things will be added ..... like ..... telephone, Cat5 LAN wiring, CATV, | intercom telephone, whole house audio, and/or surround sound and | entertainment system layout, setup and programing. Right now I've got | one house (I have no idea what the house will be worth when it's | finished) with 73 windows and 10 doors. In addtion to security, I'm | doing all of the above. Total job $13,000.00 and there will be some | overruns. Customer buys all the enterainment and audio hardware | himself. Only equipment I supply is for security and possibly the whole | house audio speakers. | | Another home that's in progress is a $3.5 million home ( pretty high | price for around here, but it's not as big as the one above...... only | 52 windows and 5 doors) where the builders alarm that came with the | house, consisted of 5 door contacts, two PIR's, two keypads, one | speaker on first floor in a 10,000 sq ft home. The homeowner told them | not to install the panel and keypads. I'm adding detection on every | window ( both wired and wireless) Doorbell intercom, various CATV and | Cat5 LAN, telephone, whole house audio and surround sound and | entertainment set up. I didn't have to break drywall up to this point | but now they want the whole house audio speakers in the ceilings, so | I've got no choice but to "notch" to get around the headers, to get to | the ceiling bays. Security will total about $5000.00, the rest of the | job I'm pricing as I go. I figure it will land in the same price area | as the one above. It's a "smaller" house but since construction is | completed, there's lots more labor. | | I have to say, however, if it wasn't for the fact that I've got a | sufficent number of accounts, at this stage, that these kind of jobs | don't do much to add to the equity of my company. These people don't | pay anymore per month for monitoring than someone with a $1000.00 | system. But the challenge is super and the prestege of being chosen to | do these high end jobs, because of good referrals, is a great feeling. |