Me. It's a 6 count drop cable and only two of the fibers are actually
used, so four splices total. I have two $17 outdoor interconnect boxes
in stock. I have some practice with these boxes now, so I can do setup
and teardown in 30 minutes for each end. A few minutes for each actual
splice. I do know the pull through the conduit will be easy and a
second guy is doing that while I work on the first splices....then I'll
move the splicer and re-setup at the other end after he's done. We'll
be done in two hours, 4 man hours total. I don't really have any doubts
about that.
Whoever said I didn't provide enough details was right, but there they
are now.
If I only bill for T&M then we're a victim of our own efficiency. I
guess they'll have to pay whatever we tell them, but I'd rather have a
rationale for charging a certain price. I'll figure it out, but I was
curious how other people do it. I'd love to charge $1500, but the T&M
adds up to maybe $600. If I added $50 per fusion splice then I'd only
be at $800. I can add $700 because I said so, but I'd rather not put on
a line item that says "Greed fee."
------ Original Message ------
From: "Carl Peterson" <cpeter...@portnetworks.com>
To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com>
Sent: 7/31/2017 5:32:51 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Rates for fiber repair
Better question is who can build out two splice cases, pull the fiber,
and splice it all in four hours? Unless this is something like 12ct
fiber and an easy little splice case, it is going to take way longer
then that. I've had guys take 8 hours to do a 48 strand cable to a
couple 24 node drop cables. They are new at it though.
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Steve Jones
<thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote:
per splice removes the speed issue
one guy can do maybe 10 an hour, one guy 5
normalizes costs
plus its a specific dedicated piece of equipment, have to recoup that
at a specific rate
my guy charges 70 per non bulk splice, I think that's fair
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Sterling Jacobson
<sterl...@avative.net> wrote:
I think it’s around $5-$6 a foot is the metric for retail runs.
So that’s $6 x 200 = $1200 total.
Maybe a bit extra depending on the vaults and splice cases used in
your case since it’s a shorter run.
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 2:49 PM
To:af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Rates for fiber repair
It's about $100 in materials which I already have and 4 hours of
labor.
Just at T&M I feel like I'm way too low, which probably means I
should change how I'm billing it. :)
So how do you arrive at $1500? What's the math?
------ Original Message ------
From: "Chris Fabien" <ch...@lakenetmi.com>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: 7/31/2017 4:39:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Rates for fiber repair
Sounds like at least a $1500 job to me...
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I'm curious what some of you guys might charge for running 200' of
new cable through a conduit, adding a splice case at both ends of
the conduit, and splicing the old cable to the new section.
This is on private property and the existing cable was broken (bent
into a hairpin by outside trauma) just outside the conduit.
There's not enough sticking out of the pipe to put a splice there,
so I have to run a new piece through the conduit.
I guess the scope of work isn't that important though. I'm more
interested in how you bill it. I know some people use an hourly
rate for installing the cable and then a flat fee per splice. Is
there a justification for charging per splice as opposed to
charging for T&M? Is it to recoup the cost of the splicer perhaps?
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