Jobs we have finished

Power brought to a site that did not have any. The meter and service disconnect are mounted at the utility pole, with the riser running down the pole to grade and the feeder trenched underground toward the structure. The bare copper at the base is the grounding electrode conductor.

Getting power to an empty lot is the job that has to happen before any other electrician can do anything. It involves the utility, the permitting office and a trench, which means it is scheduled work rather than something that happens on a phone call.

The electrical side of a solar installation: combiner box, disconnects, and the terminations that tie the array back into the building. Panels get the attention, but this is the equipment an inspector opens and the next electrician has to understand.

Labeling is the part people skip. Every conductor and every disconnect gets marked, because a solar system that nobody can safely isolate is a problem for whoever works on the building next, including the fire department.

A ground-mounted array and the conduit, enclosures and terminations that connect it back to the building. Ground mounts avoid the roof entirely, which suits property with the land for it and avoids putting equipment somewhere that gets three feet of snow on it.

Exterior runs at altitude take a beating from UV, freeze-thaw and snow load, so the conduit gets sized and supported for the conditions rather than the minimum that would pass in a garage.

A commercial service panel built out, terminated and labeled circuit by circuit. On a commercial property the panel gets opened by people who are not electricians — a manager tracing a dead outlet at seven in the morning before anyone opens.

A legible directory is worth more to that business than anything else we could do in the same hour. It is the difference between a phone call to us and a problem they can solve themselves.