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In Reply to: Electrician Coming Out To Estimate Install of Dedicated Lines posted by "Red" on December 28, 2006 at 11:08:45:
My audio system is in my family room in a split level home built in '65. The family room sits on a concrete slab. The circuit panel in the basement is not accessible to the family room unless you go outside the house and back in or go up through the attic and do signifcant damage to
ceilings, drywall etc. The estimate to go outside and come back, which would be the easiest and do the least damage to the house would be $1000. I'm reluctant to pay this much...
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Unless your house has been rewired since it was built, chances are good that the wiring needs some work to make it safe and bring it up to code. The dedicated lines may be much less costly if done as part of a larger project.Did your electrician do a thorough inspection? The quote sounds high to me, but I'm not familiar with your house. If the electrician did not inspire confidence, call another one.
Your safety is much more important than the performance of your audio system.
He knows his stuff. The house has been rewired previous to my owning it.
If it weren't for the fact that the family room is built on a concrte slab and complexity of the install because of it's position compared to the circuit panel in the basement, the cost would probabaly be $500. As it stands, the cheapest way to put in ded lines would be to run the lines outside from the basement circuit panel and back inside to the family room, using pvc pipe to fun them through outside.
Sorry to learn that it will cost so much, but every house is a different challenge.
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