I think i will have 2 new houses to wire, beside each other , starting in march. ! is 8,000 sq feet, the other is probably 6000 sq feet witha seperate mother in law suite, and then a minor league commercial kitchen in a seperate building in the back yard. The owner is a chef, and wants to be able to prepare cateered meals out there.
I am looking at buying wire in 1000 ft rolls, looking a gang box to the basement colunms and then just spooling the wire out of the gang box as I pull the home runs and then carting the hopefully much lighter spools of wire upstairs when it comes time to do the branch circuits.
Normally I do the $45 per box base price and just keep buying 250's until the job is done, but that waste and because these houses are so big, I could end up under budgeted on wire.
How would you guess how many spools to get? There is a fairly good chance I will have some more big custom houses to do after these two so I am not terribly worried about left overs, but when I layout my itemized bid for all to see and I say 5000 ft of 14-2, I want to have some confidence that , that number is neither grossly high, or grossly low.
I am looking at buying wire in 1000 ft rolls, looking a gang box to the basement colunms and then just spooling the wire out of the gang box as I pull the home runs and then carting the hopefully much lighter spools of wire upstairs when it comes time to do the branch circuits.
Normally I do the $45 per box base price and just keep buying 250's until the job is done, but that waste and because these houses are so big, I could end up under budgeted on wire.
How would you guess how many spools to get? There is a fairly good chance I will have some more big custom houses to do after these two so I am not terribly worried about left overs, but when I layout my itemized bid for all to see and I say 5000 ft of 14-2, I want to have some confidence that , that number is neither grossly high, or grossly low.