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This is what's left of a 480-volt control panel at a Richmond, VA car wash. Next day: a temporary bypass, 55 ft of new wire, a new ground, and a new fuse. Smells burnt in your panel? Don't wait. 877-247-9767

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Half an inch of water sat in the bottom of this electrical panel. It leaked down from the apartment above. Breakers dripping wet. Panel ruined. We dried it all out and put in a new Square D QO panel. Water in your panel? Don't touch it. 877-247-9767

When a kitchen light and outlet dead but the breaker is fine, what do you do? Our tech started by shaking an old aluminum wire, and the power flickered. That points to a bad splice buried in the wall. He cut in from the next room and found it completely burnt.

Breaker kept tripping. The problem was downstairs: a 70A breaker hot to the touch with loose terminals and one wire even missing strands. Would you have checked the meter stack first?

130 ft of trench, 19 in deep. New PVC conduit, new ground boxes, 140 ft of new wire. Two days, one tech, and every light in this Richmond, VA parking lot is working. Site lighting work? 877-247-9767

An infrared scan flagged an 800-amp main breaker at 105.4 degrees. We tightened its terminals, inspected the wires, and the rescan read significantly lower. The other warm breakers traced to garage exhaust fans that run constantly.

Eight carport lights out. Every junction box we opened had an open neutral. We traced it to a burnt neutral splice in an old photocell box on the electric shed, made new connections, and the lights came back on.

We're converting 64 exterior lights to LED for this property. Each one gets its ballast bypassed and its socket wired straight to line voltage. The garage and pole lights are done, and the ground lights are underway.

A concrete repair crew hit conduits buried in a garage slab, causing lights to go out on multiple levels. We spliced in temporary cable to get them back on fast. We had to come back another time to rebuild each run with junction boxes and liquid-tight.

Dead kitchen outlets: Behind the one by the sink, the aluminum wires were burnt too far back to splice. We moved the splice up into a new box in the cabinet, ran new cable down to a new GFI, and the kitchen is back on.

Flickering lights in an apartment. We worked from the switch to the meter stack, re-made the hot and neutral connections, and megger tested every line. Then we found a dimmer on a fixture that is not rated to dim, and swapped it for a standard switch.

A breaker was hot to the touch under a normal load, and voltage readings at the meter base and the panel were fine. So the breaker was the fault. We replaced it with the correct style for that panel and confirmed the voltages.

Reported as a possibly overloaded circuit. The panel showed melted insulation and a conductor that had loosened at the breaker from the heat. We cut out the damaged wire, installed a properly rated breaker, and verified voltage at every receptacle on that circuit.

Six incandescent bollard lights around a pool, replaced with LED. The old concrete bases are uneven, so each fixture needed adjustment to sit level. We covered the photocell to simulate night and verified every bollard lit.

Three streetlight poles dead, with no 240 volts between phases, so the fault sat in the buried feed. Our tech found an undocumented junction box by probing the ground and dug it out by hand. The aluminum wire inside had broken. New splice to copper, and all three poles are lit.

Two poles here needed new LED heads, fitted from an aerial lift and tested to verify proper operation. Two more had no voltage at all, so we traced the cause of the power loss and made the repairs that restored voltage.

We wired a new examination station at this facility. Three quad receptacles went in on the wall by the hallway door, each on its own dedicated twenty amp circuit, with a tandem breaker to make room in the existing panel.

The bulbs were the easy part. The feed underground was the job. We trenched in about sixty feet of new direct buried cable and terminated it at each end, then put four new LED bulbs in the pole heads. The parking area is lit again.