By the drop?

[Chris Simms]

Is there any one out there that prices by the drop? If so what exactly does a drop equal?
Chris

[s.sparkomatic.r09]

drip sometimes but never drop

[mdshunk]

Is there any one out there that prices by the drop? If so what exactly does a drop equal?
Chris
Sounds like a Stevie Ray Vaughan song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ZPMScX9-k).

"by the drop" is usually a low voltage term, with a price for each jack basically. I've heard it used related to commercial wiring, where each switch or receptacle is generally a single drop from a 4-square above the ceiling. I still think of drop pricing as more of a low voltage term, myself.

[s.sparkomatic.r09]

I do most of my work by the opening, hole, or drop. But with that said I'd only give a builder that I know a price like that. When ever I start with somebody new I never give opening prices cuz I dont know how that builder work or if he even knows what he is doing or pays right.