Browse Forums Lighting + Lighting Design Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 2Apr 13, 2009 7:41 pm John, Tarin and the Kids Built and moving in to the Regent Grande with Masterton homes http://thebrownsaremovingtothecountry.blogspot.com Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 6Apr 13, 2009 8:12 pm John, Tarin and the Kids Built and moving in to the Regent Grande with Masterton homes http://thebrownsaremovingtothecountry.blogspot.com Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 7Apr 13, 2009 10:55 pm The labour for downlights is quite intensive when installing in an existing home, but for a home without plaster on it yet it's pretty basic. Adding 10 downlights to a home without plaster on it will cost the electrician at most $150 in materials (cable, clips & 10 downlights) and a few hours of labour, so $400 might be a reasonable price if that is the case. If you're getting the builder to organise it, bear in mind that builders aren't electricians and have no idea how to quote electrical installations so they'll more than likely just be relaying what their electrician tells them with a bit of a mark-up (that's business), or they'll have an arbitrary number per point that is on the high side to guarantee them of a profit. In an existing home, you might get the apprentice or worker using the boss' tools and cable to do it for $40 per downlight but that is awfully cheap and I dare say there wouldn't be many electrical contractors doing it for that price unless they are running their business at a loss. Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 8Apr 16, 2009 3:37 pm We're paying $70 to have them installed and that doesn't included the light. I asked the same question here: http://www.forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=15422&hilit=downlights Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 9Apr 26, 2009 9:58 pm Hey all after getting 3 quotes i ended up getting 70 downlights and 5 dimmers fitted for a total of $3800 cash. This was fitted by a qualified electrican with a certificate. They are a decent sizes business that have been around for a while Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 10Apr 27, 2009 12:05 am Our builder wanted $170 each for down lights, consequently I have 2 mates that are sparkies, guess who is doing them, not the builder! If I got the builder to do as many as Gadgetman it would cost $11,900!!!!! Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 12Jul 30, 2009 3:46 pm I think its costing us about $70 per downlight for installation and that is with them all having dimmer's - the sparky said that without dimmer's there pretty cheap to install something like $10-15 per light. We got our DL from ebay for 8.80 for 2 including trasnformers. Got one lot sent for the sparkie to check and he said they were just like the ones sold in the lighting shop here (same transformer and everything) just at half the cost Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 13Jul 30, 2009 4:24 pm HI, We were asked to pay $101 thru metr1con supply and install. Outside $80 per downlight. I thing i will say, we built first time and had it done by an electrician not thru builder. As a result we had to repaint all the ceilings cause you could tell they were done after. This time we are gettting the builder Metr1con to do it, so we don't have that problem. Cost a little more but better in the longer term. All the best! Carla Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 14Jul 30, 2009 5:49 pm I bought 30 downlights (with dimmers, transformers and globes) for $270 including shipping off ebay Carton of beer each for two mates (certified sparkies) = $80 installation total = $350, supplied and installed Building 'The Kingston' (with 'Boston' elevation) through Blueprint Homes in Hocking, Perth **PCI complete 06.02.10** My Thread - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=17607 Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 15Aug 12, 2009 12:57 pm 42 downlights (energy efficiant crome gimble-if it matters 5 outdoor lights 1 chandelier 1 air con output thingy 5 extra points and putting in 8 clipsal saturn l.e.d light switches cash direct $1750 Al & Caitie- Building the Hamilton 278 (Coral) at Narangba Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 16Aug 12, 2009 1:26 pm As mentioned before our builder wanted $170 (I looked up our paperwork it is is actually $177 each!) we were undecided as to if we really wanted down lights, last week the sparky who is wiring up our house for the builder arrived, I spoke to him about it and said we would get our friend (sparky) to do it later, but we eneded up coming to an arrangement with the builders sparky who put all the wiring/plugs etc in readiness for future lights for $30 each, it's still nowhere near what my mate would do it for but it saved the hassle of rushing to get everything done before the gyprock goes in and is still thousands cheaper than if we got the builder to do it, with the benefit of hindsight I would have got him to do the extra powerpoints for cash too! Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 17Jan 20, 2010 9:14 am Hi I just saw this and think its excellent, but I was wondering how you went about doing this. Do I ask the builder when the sparky will be there and if so do I just walk up to him and ask him to quote for downlights? What happens to all the other lights or do I take them off the plan? Im lost, my first build Also what other things can I do cheap RHI - BALDIVIS PERTH 2005 Bought/Finished WA Housing Centre Home 2010 Building the Benchmark with REDINK Homes in The Avalon 2013 Building the Michigan with Cont3nt Living In Highbury Estate! Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 18Jan 20, 2010 6:01 pm wow.. i cant beleive someone is doing downlights for 40.00.. are they making ANY money.. i do them for $55.00 without the fitting.. thats switch, wiring and fit-off. your getting an AWSOME deal Electrical - Automation - Smart wiring - New homes - Commercial - Data cabling] 1300 050 315 www.cenemelectrical.com.au www.facebook.com/cenemelectrical Re: What have you paid for downlights to be fitted? 19Jan 21, 2010 10:29 am rhi3384 Hi I just saw this and think its excellent, but I was wondering how you went about doing this. Do I ask the builder when the sparky will be there and if so do I just walk up to him and ask him to quote for downlights? What happens to all the other lights or do I take them off the plan? Im lost, my first build Also what other things can I do cheap I was lucky as we lived next door while we were building so I was often there to chat to the tradies (while not annoying them) coffee, soft drinks, home made cakes/muffins, (and beer late in the afternoon) go a long way to getting them "on side". I approached the sparkie when he was first there and got to know him a bit and then mentioned what a rip off $177 for a down light was he absolutely agreed, I then said we would be getting them done afterwards by a friend, after a while he said he could run all the wiring and put the 413 plugs where we wanted them for $45 each, I said I would speak to my sparkie mate he then said how about $30 each and I figured this was quite good as he could do it before the gyprock we in so we agreed. We also got him to run a junction box for the shed and put in another circuit. Good luck with your project. Hey Buddy I am so sorry to hear. I have been going through something very similar. 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