we bought our first dell last year. i believe it's also going to be our last from them...desktop, but far inferior to what we thought we were upgrading.

I agree the bill seems unreasonable...in Cali you can a small house rewired for 800 bucks!

I don't use the laptop...my daughter swiped it from me...I'm happy parked right in front of my 19" screen with favorite beverage and DSL to while away the time!:D

no, i said it didn't sound unreasonable.
wiring is incredibly expensive these days, due to the price of copper. $2 a pound now. a roll of copper line for use in plumbing costs over $100 dollars. haven't priced romex recently, but i can imagine...
and of course many residential plumbers/electricians charge a 2 hour minimum labor fee just for showing up to your house. that can be $100 or more just for them to pull into the driveway.

Zeig: you said it will kill you...I thought you meant voltage-wise,not price wise,lol!

lol
i did mean voltage wise. but definitely sticker shock as well.

Danzig,
You are correct about the price of copper. It's through the roof.
As far as your idea about plumbing vs electric, I prefer electric. Plumbing is just very frustrating to me. I always have "do overs". At least with electrical stuff, at the end of the day, my hands are clean. If there's anything scarey, I just pop the main breaker, though I admit, at times I've worked in a hot box.

Hey Cajun,
You are too funny!

ok, glad i wasn't drinking just then. i know it wasn't what you meant, but funny all the same!
i don't mind doing either kind of work. now, back before pvc pipe took over, i hated working with copper. hold the pipe while my dad did the soldering, that crap falling all over you and burning--but don't move!! lol
very glad i spent all that time working with him, i can do any kind of remodelling--really any carpentry work from digging and pouring footings to putting on a new roof--and everything in between. can run wire, install switches and outlets, etc. but i excel at drywall mudding. all that knowledge has saved me a ton of $ since buying this house.

as for the price, they just had about $80k worth of copper stolen--bound to be an inside job-at a warehouse about an hour from my house.
fat lot of good it'll do the crooks. now if you sell more than $20 worth, you have to show picture i.d. that'll take forever to unload if they do such a small amout at a time!!

I'll let it go, you seem to have a pretty good handle on this...One thing I will say is that there customer service was excellent, both the guy who came and the phone rep, I filled out their reply card and said they were outstanding, I figured those two were great, why should they get a bad reply card, because I thought the owner was gouging me...


I am moving from this house this summer, moving to Northern Kentucky. It's a great little old house and it's plenty for my wife and I, but I am tired of dealing with these little issues...

Sometimes I'm funny when I have no intention of being so...and then at other times, when I try to be...flat on my face, bombs away.
Go figure. I need lessons.

Sorry, but it WAS funny. HAHA!!! Either that or my mind is in the gutter (or the pipe! HA!)

I dunno, I dunno...
I've been taking this correspondence course..."You too can become a Psychiatrist".
Maybe we can get together and talk about the "gutter" thing.
Just make yourself comfortable on my couch. (that's how it says to start).:)
I'll write it up later.

a lot of people fall in love with an older home, but all those nagging little problems take their toll.