Category: Commercial

We did another service call at the Starbucks on E Olive Way.  This location was completely remodeled and looks so nice. They have a super fancy programmable lighting control panel too. The $50 LED light bulbs have been failing repeatedly and we were asked to investigate. Additionally we inspected bad...

This was an installation for a  business in downtown Auburn called Cycle Gear. It was a great way to make a conversion from energy hogging incandescent lights, to energy efficient T5 lights.  Look closely to see that the suspended fixtures are mounted on the existing 54 foot long lighting track....

most of the commercial work and we do has steel stud framing. Steel stud framing has special requirements for the electrical materials used. Emt conduit and mc cable require special tools in training to install correctly .

This needed 150' of 3/4" Emt and a ton of 12-2 and 12-3 mcm cable! The comment from the chief Engineer, " you guys clean up after yourslves". We wanted to make sure that we left the conference rooms clean for t- mobile microsoft and other businesses that you will...

This rotary phase converter was pick up at auction and since the customer didn't have three phase power they will be used to power up compressors for an auto shop. Often the cost to install a three phase power system or the cost to pay the utility to bring in...

Today we started a 3 day project  to install conduit, and run circuits to the conference rooms at The Embassy Suites Bellevue. Clients like Microsoft and T-mobile bring so many Laptops to conferences nowadays, that is requires  dedicated circuits and lots of extra receptacles . The "rule of thumb that we...

We have a new supplier for submeters that is 2/3 the cost of the competition. Get a tenant to pay for their own power, or a business to pay for large electrical or computer AC loads etc... Easy to install and monitoring is available. Same cost for a waterproof outdoor...

It seems that some cities have spare time on their hands due to the slow economy.  Some jurisdictions have kept busy by performing inspections of local businesses .   We have received more than 1 call from businesses that have been given correction notices by the fire marshal. Most corrections are...

We did some work at the kenworth trucking plant .  This truck costs about  $100,000 straight off of the assembly line!  Don't expect to get good gas mileage either. It will get about 4 MPG until it breaks in, and it might get up to 9 or 10 MPG once...