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Electrical Items Calculator

Price MCBs, junction and loop-in boxes, terminal connectors, cable glands, conduit fittings and cable. Build sets of components, say how many sets, and change any quantity or rate — or add your own custom items. A lump-sum BoQ line is read into one row per sub-line.

Sets & components

A set is components that go together (for example a junction box with its terminals, MCB and glands) and the number of sets you need. For a plain list of items keep one set at 1. Pick components from the price list or add your own.

Set name
Number of sets

Applies to the price-list rates, not to a price you type yourself.

Check the rates. MCB prices come from Nigerian retail listings; most other items (boxes, glands, connectors, fittings, flexible conduit) are starting figures that have not been updated recently. Type your own price on any line — it is used instead of the price list.

4 lines · Other cities

₦28,700

Cost, before contingency, overhead and profit

Materials & supplies ₦21,500

Labour ₦7,200

Cost components

One row per component, worked out from the sets on the left (quantity per set × number of sets). Change quantities and prices there.

Junction box with terminals, MCB and glands₦28,700
ItemQtyUnitMaterials ₦Labour ₦Total
Junction box nr₦4,500
Terminal connector nr₦4,000
MCB — 3-pole, up to 32 A nr₦15,400
Cable gland — 25 mm nr₦4,800

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Pricing Electrical Items Without a Fixed List

Electrical BoQs often list items that do not fit a room-by-room wiring estimate: an MCB of a given rating and poles, a junction box with its terminals and glands, conduit couplers, flexible conduit. Quite often they arrive as one lump sum with a list of components beneath it.

This calculator does not assume what the job is. You build it from components, and every part is yours to change.

Sets, Components and Custom Items

Components come from a price list of MCBs (by poles and rating band), junction and loop-in boxes, terminal connectors, cable glands and lugs, PVC and flexible conduit, conduit fittings and cable. Each has a materials price and the labour to fit it.

Sets group components that go together and say how many of them there are. A junction box with four terminals, an MCB and two glands is one set; if you need twelve of them, enter twelve sets. For a simple list of items, keep one set.

Custom items have your own name, unit and prices, for anything the price list does not have. You can also type your own price on any price-list line.

Lump Sums in the BoQ Import

Inside the BoQ import, choose "Price with a calculator" on a lump-sum electrical line. The calculator reads each sub-line into rows: an MCB is matched by its rating and poles, glands by the size of the cable, and anything it does not recognise becomes your own line to price. Where the BoQ says "each", set the number of sets. Then check the rows, add any missing quantities, and apply the total as the rate for the line.

MCB prices come from Nigerian retail listings; other starting rates have not been updated recently, so replace them with your own quotes.

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