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Originally Posted by DruannB
I had the worst experience ever with a contractor today, and my husband and I do renovation work—so it was really bad. Mister Sparky out of Ocala came to give me a quote on installing 5 can lights in a bedroom, replacing a can light with a pendant and adding a nearby sconce. First, he told me we needed a whole house surge protector. I hadn’t asked for that service. That was $7,000. I told him we already had that. Then he looked at one of our light switches and said the entire house needed all the switches replaced. Only $5,000. The house is 7 years old and there’s nothing wrong with the electrical. And if there is, we know how to change out a switch. To add can lights and the pendant? $3,700. I may be female and 64, but I am not stupid. Oh, and they sent me an invoice for $8.75 for truck supplies. Not sure what that might be. Please don’t contact them for ANY quotes.
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I called them for a standard Tesla hook up. I had the charger all they needed to do was connect it. First they wanted me to buy the house surge protector. Which was nuts as the house already had one which I had purchased a month before and it cost 1/4 what he wanted me to pay . He quoted $2,000 for the Tesla connection. I told him that it should be around $1200 with the Tesla charger as I had one installed in my Atlanta home a few months ago (with Sparky - it’s a Franchise and they have a franchisee there which I used) and that the Tesla charger was $500. He immediately came down to the $1200. I said no and he left. I ended up paying $450 with Cage electric and couldn’t be happier Cage. I strongly recommend them.