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🎧 How Much Will an Electrician Cost? · Lipps Electric Podcast

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  Jim Clouk, a.k.a. Checker Pro Joe, here on Checker Pro Radio.
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  A question that comes up in home improvement in general is, how much is it going to cost, Mr.
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  Contractor? And I have brought a contractor into the show today.
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  His name is Kevin Lips. Kevin, how are you?
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  I'm doing great, Jim. Looking forward to the conversation. It's great to have you here.
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  Lips Electric, love you guys so much. This is a question, like I said,
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  that I hear all the time, whether it's a roofer, a plumber, HVAC, or electric.
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  You probably hear this all the time, too, because people can be price sensitive.
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  But I always suggest it's not the price, it's the value.
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  What are you getting for the price?
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  So how do we answer this question? How much will it cost?
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  I think it's a great question. and we get it every day and depending on how
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  people appreciate or hear our answer, we do lose some calls, but we do go the most.
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  So we do believe in being very transparent up front with our pricing with no surprises.
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  We do require a service visit though. And with that, we do charge $79 to come out.
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  Yeah. And $79 in case those of you who are listening and watching to this, it's that's not a lot.
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  That's going to be, I would think, more on the lower end for a qualified,
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  licensed, insured, trained electrical technician. You're not a handyman.
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  You're not a house painter. You guys have to play by certain rules.
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  The average contractor doesn't.
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  Meaning when you're in HVAC, plumbing, electrical.
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  There's a few that have pest control. There's a few where you actually have
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  to follow rules that the government sets.
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  Correct. Yeah. Yes. A hundred percent. And so that costs money.
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  A lot of people say, why does it cost so much to have an electrician come out to my home?
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  Well, why does it cost so much to go see a doctor or have, you know,
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  surgery or an operation?
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  Because it's the, it's the training and the safety. You don't want your house to burn down.
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  You don't want to get shocked or, God forbid, electrocuted, die.
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  And so you guys are trained, licensed, and insured.
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  So that's not a lot of money. Once you're at the house, you probably hear that a lot.
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  There's a problem. Maybe there's an outlet that doesn't work.
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  So that question comes up and the answer is we'll have to diagnose it first.
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  Yeah, so we do. So, well, that service fee does include and 45-minute diagnosis
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  for whatever reason you called us out there.
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  So if it's an outlet or had a ceiling fan or you want a new circuit for a new
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  electrical vehicle you purchased, for whatever you called us out there for.
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  And it also includes a visual safety inspection. So one of our requirements
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  is for all of our service technicians to understand where the power source is,
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  which is your panel, and do an inspection of it.
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  And they will pull the panel off and do a quick visual to make sure everything
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  is to code. But mainly I need my guys to be able to turn off the power for whatever
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  they're going to work on for you.
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  So, but the other thing to add
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  on that $79, the last thing I want to do is collect $79 from customers.
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  If that's all I did every day, we would be out of business really fast.
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  So it is important to know that this fee is waived when the customers choose any of our options.
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  Yeah, and that's great. That's a sign of a really great company when you waive that fee.
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  Can you quote anything over the phone or does it always have to be a diagnostic?
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  We'll look at it and then tell you. Yeah. It's if you call my CSR,
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  they're going to tell you we have to come on out, you know, and that's generally
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  for any home service item because it is custom.
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  It is not always as simple as my outlet's not working because that outlet is
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  part of a system and that outlet's tied to wires and those wires go to different
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  boxes and different devices.
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  And it goes back to the panel, which is connected to the breaker.
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  And that panel is connected to the, ultimately the utility.
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  And we do give a lot of options.
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  So it's like, if you call me just for one outlet, we're going to give you five
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  outlets to repair or make new.
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  And it goes from the single most basic repair up to the absolutely no excuses,
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  best peace of mind and brand new option.
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  And that's what we kind of guide the customer where they're at from what we see on site.
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  That's a sign of a great company, everybody. One that's not going to guess what
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  it's going to cost over the phone or in a chat or any of the type of electronic communication.
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  It's best to have a licensed insured trained technician come out to your home.
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  Just like if you called your doctor.
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  Hey, doc, I think I need a hip replacement. What's it going to cost?
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  Well, first of all, let's see if you need a new hip. Come on in, right?
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  And we'll start looking at things. And then we'll write something up.
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  And that's how it should work in home service as well.
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  And the difference with us, though, is the doctor won't even tell you at all
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  what it's going to cost you until the bills show up.
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  And then also get bills from three other different things for the same thing.
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  But we'll give you that price before we start any work.
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  Yeah. Kevin, as always, thank you so much for joining me here on the program.
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  For all of Kevin's information, just check out the show notes of this podcast,
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  and you'll be able to track him down on his entire team, and you'll be able to learn more.
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  Look at other videos and podcasts as well. There's a treasure trove of information
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  here that Kevin and I have done.
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  Thank you, my friend. I appreciate it. Awesome. As always, thank you.