Residential rough in time

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George Stolz said:
30 minutes a hole is average. 20 minutes a hole is proficient. 12 minutes a hole is only attainable when you do nothing but the same three floorplans day after day that you can do in your sleep, and if you fib on your time card a little to suck up to the boss. Your claimed "average" is faster than 12 minutes a hole. :)
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I don't suck up to the boss.I am the boss.We do mostly custom homes now,.So ,when we do get a spec. home it's like lapping gravy to us.I haven't punched a time card in nearly 30 years now.The industry has been good to me since 1982 I only remember one time that I didn't receive a full weeks pay..God has blessed my beyond measure..
 
James L said:
Why the assumption that faster guys are lying? I make no bones about it, there are some of us who can single handedly out-wire a two man crew. Take a look at this thread, I spelled it out in post # 8

http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=165400
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Very informative post! QFT. The only thing I'd add is "pre-work"; which is pulling out KOs, unwrapping coverplates, backing off screw terminals on 4-wire phone plate, putting screws in captive wallplates, sticking a compression fitting a turn or two on a coax plate, unwrapping cat5e/cat6 jacks, etc. When I did commercial comm work, this could take a few hours in the hotel room. The next day, I'd set out all the plates in the rooms, and have them trimmed out by day's end (300 or so plates). It helped a lot not walking 100 rooms on 4 floors multiple times just to clean up trash. Resi is a bit different, but assembly line work, as you put it, is the fastest way to do any task. I hate assembly line work, but you only do task x for a few hours, then y, then, z, and it's not bad.
 
jaylectricity said:
I've taken a week to rough in a large kitchen.....
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As have I, on remodel work.

About 3 years ago I spent 8 or 9 days roughing in a kitchen and a whole week on the finish. Exact placement for a dozen mini cans and gimbals, 3 pendants over a multi angle island, 3 rolls of l.e.d. ribbon on 5 transformers, so many dedicated circuits that it was ridiculous. It seemed that every opening required a 20 minute pow-wow.

But that kind of stuff isn't typical of a 2500sf house mentioned in the OP
 
nizak said:
I guess a lot of depends on what guys/ gals put on a circuit. Here in Michigan arc fault is only required in bedrooms. A lot of contractors will pull 2 15A circuits for 4 large bedrooms, this will include bedroom receps, lighting in the bedrooms, receps in adjacent halls, and bath lighting.

Code allows it, but I can't see doing it.
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Arent they doing away with all AFCIs?
 
FWIW to you dynamos out there. If you're making satisfactory $/hr as an electrician in the area you work, have at it. If you are being a dynamo to get satisfactory $/hr at some point in the future, go work for another contractor.
 
Whoa, 8 MPO. Impressed. Who stocked the materials? Cleanup?

Way back when, I figured 40 minutes per from fresh stud walls to finished project walking out the door and shutting the lights off. Service was extra. Just rough in time, IDR. Not a speed demon, but no one complained. Those were easy homes with 8' ceilings though.

We just did our home for the year. I spent at least 8 MPO on meetings with owners for layout. Rough in time for a guy that normally digs ditches, mounts PPs, and locates underground faults? Shudder to think.
 
GerryB said:
:lol:Exactly. This is like the guys who like to say they change a service in 4 hours.
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James L said:
Why the assumption that faster guys are lying?
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Gerry didn't really say that the faster guys are lying, only that the situations may be a bit different.

I find those 4 hour service changes hard to believe and yet I'm sure that in some situations it is possible to do a 4 hour service change. I wouldn't say a 4 hour service change is normal.
 
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