Cost to hang ceiling fan?

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Install it where? Under what conditions? There's way too many variables for a generic answer. An easy open accessible attic above would yield a price about 1/3rd of what it would cost to hang that same fan on a suspended ceiling.
 
About 2 years ago the local Lowe's store inquired into whether I'd like to hang fans for them. They paid the contractor 45 dollars for this. (Gee, sign me up now!) I don't know who's hanging fans for them, but any legitimate operator has to charge at least that much just to ring the doorbell.
 
Home depot will replace a fan or install a fan in an existing box for $150
I was charging 125 for that but I bumped it up to 150 when I saw the home depot price.
They also will charge $299 to supply and install an attic fan(cut the hole in the roof,wire the fan,the whole thing complete for a one story house if there is power in the attic)
I can do that in an hour -hour and a half.Attic fan costs 70 bucks,add a switch,nail on box,plate cover,staples,15-20ft 14-2 rx,tube of flashing calk for the hole. Cutting the hole most guys are afraid of but its really easy all you need is a nail,cordless drill and sawsall.(yes my insurance covers it!!!)
I was charging 275 but now i bumped it up to 300.
Some of you guys probably think that is too low but i don't have much overhead and around here there are 25 differnet electrical contractors looking to cut anybodies throat they can for pennies.They bid out new construction jobs for less money per hour then they could make stocking shelves at walmart.
 
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robwire said:
Some of you guys probably think that is too low but i don't have much overhead and around here there are 25 differnet electrical contractors looking to cut anybodies throat they can for pennies.They bid out new construction jobs for less money per hour then they could make stocking shelves at walmart.
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Yes, and with that kind of business model none of them will be in business for very long.
 
I will hang one on an existing installation for $150 but if Marc wants to do it for $45 I would be happy to hire him. :grin:
 
electricmanscott said:
This is a classic misconception. Usually held by someone who doesn't realize just how much overhead they actually have.
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I know EXACTLY what my overhead is and i recently adjusted it to figure in 5 bucks a gallon of gas just incase and figured on me working five hours a day 40 weeks a year incase it slows down beacuse of the crappy economy( but I am booked solid till the first week of august so..)
 
robwire said:
I know EXACTLY what my overhead is and i recently adjusted it to figure in 5 bucks a gallon of gas just incase and figured on me working five hours a day 40 weeks a year incase it slows down beacuse of the crappy economy( but I am booked solid till the first week of august so..)
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what's your overhead?
 
robwire said:
I was charging 125 for that but I bumped it up to 150 when I saw the home depot price.
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Thats insane, $125 for a fan install? I just did a job today where I hung some Hunter Fans, they took over an hour and a half each to assemble, drill out the fan box I had roughed in because these fans came with a hook style mounting assembly, ladder setup, clean up, garbage removal... etc, etc, etc...
 
stickboy1375 said:
, drill out the fan box I had roughed in because these fans came with a hook style mounting assembly...
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Reiker makes a trick adapter thing that makes that unnecessary. I'll see if I can scare one up and take a pic.
 
mdshunk said:
Reiker makes a trick adapter thing that makes that unnecessary. I'll see if I can scare one up and take a pic.
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These were pancake style fanboxes installed in a beam at rough, wasn't about to worry about changing them this late in the game.
 
I used to crank out fans when we were first starting up and I STILL couldn't hang a simple one in under 45 minutes complete with set up and clean up.

I figure an hour each minimum, standard fan, 8' ceiling. If I am just going there to hang one fan I would charge $150 and still not make money.

In the olden days If I charged $150, I would put $145 of it in my pocket and call it a day. I'm starting to miss the olden days.
 
220/221 said:
I used to crank out fans when we were first starting up and I STILL couldn't hang a simple one in under 45 minutes complete with set up and clean up.

I figure an hour each minimum, standard fan, 8' ceiling. If I am just going there to hang one fan I would charge $150 and still not make money.

In the olden days If I charged $150, I would put $145 of it in my pocket and call it a day. I'm starting to miss the olden days.
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Agreed... 1 hour is really pushing it though, the thing had better come from HD if your gonna make your time limit.
 
mdshunk said:
Right. I'm not sure where you buy a 70 dollar attic fan, but even if I did know, I'm not real sure I'd want it.
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I know you can buy one that cheap at HD. I've been checking them out over there because I'm looking at putting one in my house...installing the fan is the easy part, but adding the intake ventilation is not.
 
peter d said:
I know you can buy one that cheap at HD. I've been checking them out over there because I'm looking at putting one in my house...installing the fan is the easy part, but adding the intake ventilation is not.
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I put two attic fans in the gable vents in my house. I made them both controlled off of one thermostat. This way they will both come on at the same time. I turned one around to blow in and the other one blows out.
They work great like that. Swishhhhh the air flys out of their.
 
buckofdurham said:
I put two attic fans in the gable vents in my house. I made them both controlled off of one thermostat. This way they will both come on at the same time. I turned one around to blow in and the other one blows out.
They work great like that. Swishhhhh the air flys out of their.
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that's just the problem...NO attic ventilation whatsoever...no gable vents, no soffit vents, nothing. It all needs to be installed.
 
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