Electrical Question???

What would be a good price to pay to an electrician for installing 2 outdoor motion activated flood lights, one on the back of the house and one on the side with the garage? the wiring would have to be run to that location, and a switch as well to control it.[

About $60 to $75 an hour, depending on location. Not enough info to say how many hours. Could be a 1 hour job, cold be 5 hours. .

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No way to know. It could be a couple hours if there are appropriate circuits available where you want the lights; it could be a couple days if he has to run new circuits and there is no good way to route them.

I put one in two years ago. The instructions said a switch was required, but it would have been a lot of work and I didn't want one anyhow, so I left it out. It works fine; don't know why they say one is required. YMMV

Some units give you the option to temporarily disable the motion detector and force the light to stay on by flipping the switch off and back on within

Kevin

In addition, after a power outage, some of them keep the light lit, and you have to turn the switch off for about 90 seconds to reset it.

Thanks for all the replys, i never thought about some of those switch features and they sound good.

I am guessing that a rate of about $40.00 /hour is a reasonable rate to pay for this job.