Category: Residential

How Much Does it Cost to Hire an Electrician? Are you frustrated because you need an outlet where there is none or have an outlet where you don't need it? Want to install a dimmer? With technology booming and becoming a more prominent fixture in our lives, adding or updating...

This Tacoma homeowner contacted us after having repeated breaker failures over the last three years. Sometimes lights would flicker and at one point the oven stopped working entirely. The electrical problems became very clear as soon as we opened the 200 amp Electrical panel. We found pooling water on the...

This panel in Des Moines still worked, but a panel upgrade would go a long ways and provide cleaner and safer Power. Now it is true that this electrical panel is "grandfathered in".  Basically meaning that at the time is was installed it did in fact meet the electrical code...

100 feet of trenching later we installed our wire in our fresh trench. We scheduled the city of Des Moines electrical inspector the same day and were given approval for cover. The required burial depth for this type of residential install is 24". We also had to splice onto existing...

The thieving marijuana growers decided that a good way to increase their profits was to get "free" power. They literally cut open the rigid metal conduit riser with the un-metered and un-fused conductors. Very gutsy, with no overcurrent protection device this could have been fatal. It was a very clean...

How much does it cost for wiring a complete residential new construction house? As a local family owned contractor we are careful to keep costs very competitive.

This customer called us with a power outage in their Dash point beach house. Within a few minutes we found a serious problem in their meter base. It needed to be replaced. Pictured above is actually a 200amp meter main (combines both a meter socket and a 200 amp main...

We got a call from a homeowner that had just purchased a home and found a big rat infestation in the attic. Look closely........the entire yellow jacket of the electrical wire has been chewed off, they even started chewing on the inner insulation exposing the copper wire inside. These rats...

One of the terminals was left loose, over the years it did serious damage until it finally melted through the wire completely....fortunately the entire dryer didn't ignite and cause a house fire.  When electrical connections are loose electrical arcing starts to occur. This is like a mini lighting strikes that...