Yeah I’m definitely willing to pay to get it done, because I’m sure I’ll be the same if I don’t.
But the cost they’re suggesting for the patch panel is (including the cabinet, which I was expecting to be my own after-the-fact expense not budgeted as part of this) about 4x what I would have expected even after budgeting things at the high end of what I thought might happen. $150 instead of <$100 for the hardware, and $150 for the labour was my expectation.
And that’s without even getting in to the cost of the actual cables. I didn’t put it in this post because it was already long enough and I figure it’s a basically separate issue. But they’re wanting to charge me $266 per cable. No modification for the fact that more than half the cables are going to just 2 locations, and all the others are two cables to the same location. Just a straight $266 for every individual cable. It’s meant this whole thing has blown out way beyond where I was expecting it to be.
Out of interest, if you do just get them to lay empty conduit, how easy/hard would it be to run 4 or 8 cables through that conduit and fit it to a faceplate later on?