$22k!!! wow, I hope you were sitting down when you got that quote!! Or were you expecting it would be about that price? Our electrical was about $5k.... originally about $6k, but we cut back a bit. we also love the Saturn light switches, and intend to change over to them after handover. Hubbies brother is an electrician (although lives 9 hours drive away) so hopefully next time he visits he might need to bring his tools!
Oh no now I feel quite guilty that it is so high! I did get a friend to give me a quote for part of it and that came to $15000 and that was not with the switches so we decided to go with masterton. That is only a single story but with 6 bedrooms. Heaven help me if we'd gone two stories. We are putting in our own appliances which adds a lot, sensors in three sections, lots of power points in my office and inside the pantry, down lights in the lougne room and our bedroom... And in the eaves over the deck... Lots of additional power points. That's a good tip about changing the plates after hand over. I shall look into that...how does it all add up so quickly?