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Now that I've got the new 77" OLED TV I'm finally going to add rear surrounds to my home theater system. I don't feel comfortable with drilling holes in walls and/or the ceiling then running the wires in the ceiling of my finished basement so I called around for some quotes on installation.
After describing the layout of the basement, mounting position, and problems with installation the best that I could, quote #1 came in at $500 to $750. "Of course I'll have to come out and eyeball the job myself but my rate is $150 per hour and this sounds like at least 3-4 hours of work."
The guy from the other company insisted on coming out and seeing the basement layout. He came out and tossed around three possible wire routing scenarios, then started digging in deeper by removing a couple of can ceiling lights, shining a light in there and looking around, sticking his phone up there and taking photos. He also removed the grill cover on a cold air return vent and shined a light in there, even held a mirror in there and looked around, took pictures. Asked a bunch more questions. He was here for 45 minutes and came up with a solid plan. The cost? "About $200 plus or minus $25. This looks like about 2.5 to 3 hours and my hourly rate is $75."
I'm going with guy #2.
After describing the layout of the basement, mounting position, and problems with installation the best that I could, quote #1 came in at $500 to $750. "Of course I'll have to come out and eyeball the job myself but my rate is $150 per hour and this sounds like at least 3-4 hours of work."
The guy from the other company insisted on coming out and seeing the basement layout. He came out and tossed around three possible wire routing scenarios, then started digging in deeper by removing a couple of can ceiling lights, shining a light in there and looking around, sticking his phone up there and taking photos. He also removed the grill cover on a cold air return vent and shined a light in there, even held a mirror in there and looked around, took pictures. Asked a bunch more questions. He was here for 45 minutes and came up with a solid plan. The cost? "About $200 plus or minus $25. This looks like about 2.5 to 3 hours and my hourly rate is $75."
I'm going with guy #2.