Thanks again,
I won't refuse to pay at all, I have no problem paying a fair price for good work, and I think he did good work even if some of it was overkill, and I don't even mind paying a bit of a premium for the quick service, but I don't like getting a sore ass just because he was the first guy to pick up the phone. I've called another repair place, they've told me it would take them about 3 hrs total including replacing the poly with sched 120 (@ $2.50/ft) (which they said also is not necessary) they charge $100/hr, wire at $1.25/ft, although they did say the pump would be $1,500 as well. I just checked Home Depot for the wire, they only sell 4c12 pump drop and at $2/m (I'm being charged ~ $10/m for 4c10) I was also told there that submersible pumps can now only be sold to licensed installers in BC at least, which explains why they cost so much being that there are only 3-4 installers in this area. But I know I can get the exact same pump for $600-800 online, and even though I can't buy one from them a wholesaler did tell me theirs were ~ $800, I'm going to confirm that on Monday with more specifics and then figure out how much I'd like to pay and how much I'm willing to pay.
Complication is my neighbour is paying half and he seems to have no problem paying for anything and said as much constantly while the contractor was here, "let's get the new pipe, well worth it" "What's one of those pumps worth, $1,500?" "How can we pay you, can we just give you our credit card #'s right now?" That sort of thing all day which ticked me off at the time as I never sound too eager to pay and always want to know how much first but I'm sure that's part of why we're getting it up the out hole now.
I know what you mean about DIY, sure didn't look too complicated, aside from some of the tools which could be worked around I'm sure and setting the valve for the right pressure and gpm, but at the time it was just let's get the water back on, should have known.
Anyway, thanks again for the reply.
Cheers.