Has anyone had to pay extra to run conduit for pool lights back to the equipment pad? I just had my electrician out today. The original contract called for 200' of electric work from my home panel. Now, they are adding in the length of conduit needed to run 3 pool lights and adding over $1k to my electric estimates. I couldn't believe it! I would've never had imagined that the wiring from the pool to the equipment pad was not included in the price of the pool.
Here's the exact wording of the contract:
Furnish and install up to 200' feet of electrical conduit from Owner's existing panel, includes a GROUND FAULT INTERRUPTER for pool lights as per Code requirement, and includes cost of necessary permits. Owner responsible for panel meeting Code. (Additional electrical conduit over length shown is $7.00 per foot.) Does not include filling in trenches after conduit is placed.
Ours was included, and $7 per foot for a trench that is already open for the plumbing seems steep to me.
I would try to get the price down or take it to arbitration it's not as if they did not know where the lights were going in the first place, even if it was going to bump the price up it was a measurable known issue that should have been covered in the original contract this sounds like a bait and switch unless you added the lights later in the process.