How do you determine how much you charge per wire & how much do you?

[JohnnyScience]

When you are out quoting jobs, how exactly do you price them out?

How do you determine how much you will charge for running each wire(s) and installing device(s)?

You obviously have a cost per foot you must make up to pay for the wire itself, but how is the rest of the price caclulated?

Difficulty?

Distance?

Type of Wire?

Just a plain old X amount per wire?

Anything else?

For instance, I'm thinking of installing Wifi for people, so I would need to know how much I should charge them for the Cat5 cable pull & for terminating & installing the wifi device?

Thanks.

 

[peter]

Generally its based on each system like so much per outlet or whatever. The cost of each wire doesn't matter much in the long run.
~Peter

 

[curt swartz]

You want to install WI-FI in homes? If so why do you need and tools or bulk cable? Almost all home routers have WI-FI built in that will provide sufficient coverage. I don't think you are going to get much business installing cabled remote access points. Access points are used for businesses but they are going to be installed by the people that setup and maintain their computer networks.