Customer Enquiry for Chandelier Installation
Hi, this is John Dale from GlobileNet. We do a lot of work in terms of electrical variety. And this was with Ted, who had given me a call because they had a very awkward stairway in which they wanted to remove or install a new chandelier. And the chandelier was quite a complicated one.
Site Inspection and Height Considerations
So although I had a picture of it, I wanted to go and have a look at the site. So I arranged with Ted to review the site, have a look at the problem properly, and just clarified with him things like height.
Feature Lighting Design and Visibility
You know, for chandeliers, typically, where you might think the height is right, the client has a completely different perspective. In this case, they wanted to be able to see the chandelier from the street. There was glass fronting the house and the light was very visible from the outside, so it was more of a feature light to make the home look attractive.
Quoting and On-Site Challenges
Anyway, after assessing everything, as we would normally do, we’d given Ted a quote, which he’d accepted. When we went to actually do the job, we had plans, and sometimes your plans are not always perfect. What we found was it was quite difficult to set up in this particular stairway void because the stairs and the space itself did not allow for ladders to be put in. Scaffolding was rather awkward, too. Really, we had to think about how we might mount this chandelier without having ladders.
Rope and Pulley Electrical Installation Method
We managed to figure out a way of creating a bracket in the roof space, dropping down the rope, assembling the light entirely before we pulled it up. Actually, attaching bolts and nuts to the base of the unit, and then pulling it up slowly and carefully up into the ceiling with a rope and pulley system. It wasn’t that heavy, but it was about $10,000. And when you’re lifting $10,000 like that, it’s heavier than you think. And then manipulating that bracket so that it sat on a preformed support strut in the roof space was no easy feat. You have to have very nimble fingers. Anyway, we were successful. It took us about two and a half hours to actually install the chandelier. Which was in line with the quoted price anyway. So it looked wonderful at the end of it.
Customer Satisfaction and Cost Efficiency
Ted was very happy that we managed to do it efficiently, effectively. He was, I think, expecting to see a charge of $1,000 or more, but we managed to keep it down to, I think, $500 to $600 using all our little tricks in which we could actually install it properly.
Call for Complex Electrical Work
If you want something complicated done and don’t want to pay a fortune necessarily and need somebody that provides some innovative thoughts to the process, give us a call. I’m John Dale from GlobileNet.
