Commercial electricians are invaluable assets who can help to keep your place of business safe and power-efficient. Choosing a good provider of commercial electrician services requires great care and due diligence. It is not a decision anyone should make quickly or with little thought.
A qualified electrician has the professional education, training and experience needed to perform important and sometimes dangerous work. Your commercial operation requires a safe and efficient electrical system so that work is done efficiently and well.
A commercial electrician is trained and experienced in providing services for commercial operations. Providing services for commercial operations is more involved than what residential electricians generally perform.
A residential electrician has a smaller but still important task of providing electrical services for homes. The residential electrician knows local codes for residential homes but not necessarily for commercial operations. Commercial electrical service is a much different matter.
What does a commercial electrician do?
A commercial electrician might plan, diagram and install electrical systems for clients. The electrician also might work from blueprints of the electrical system that a general contractor has designed for your project.
The electrician will determine the types of wire, tubing or pipe needed to correctly route and install electrical wiring in your commercial property. The electrician should know the local requirements for electrical systems and how to make them as safe as possible.
A properly installed and fully suitable electrical system should abide by local construction codes and provide your business with plenty of reliable electrical power. A poorly designed system is prone to failure and overloaded circuits. And that could be bad for business as well as the health of your workers.
A qualified electrician can help to ensure that your place of business has a reliable and safe source of electrical power. Electricity is a truly revolutionary technology that has made it possible to do many things around the clock. Electricity is efficient, clean, and usually readily available.
You can produce your own electricity with solar panels and generators and store it with batteries. While there are many benefits of electricity, you have to be able to route it to work locations, machinery and other equipment that requires electricity to get work done.
Why you need a qualified electrician?
A qualified electrician can help to ensure your commercial operation and its employees can perform work as efficiently as possible. Disruptions in electrical services could affect a small segment of your operations or the entire system. Electrical problems also could create serious safety concerns and possibly cause worker injuries or death.
Most commercial operators need electricians who can:
- Be available at all hours.
- Design and install electrical systems.
- Maintain electrical systems and repair them as needed.
An electrical problem might occur at any hour of the day or night. Even holidays are subject to potential electrical failures that could jeopardize your commercial property and business activities.
You need an electrician who can provide you with around-the-clock emergency services that will minimize potential damage and the effect on your business. The sooner a qualified electrician can take care of the matter and fix it the right way, the less financial harm your company will endure.
An electrician also should be able to walk through your commercial facility during its construction or when you are planning renovations that include improving the electrical services. The walk-through should enable the electrician to examine your needs and determine the best way to install an electrical system that is sufficient for your needs and meets local codes.
Designing the best electrical system and installing it will help the commercial electricians to fully understand the system and diagnose any problems that might occur afterward. The electricians also should be able to maintain your systems to help reduce the chances of system failures.
Choosing a competent and fully qualified commercial electrician requires time and effort to make the best choice. Taking the following steps can help you to do that.
Contact several commercial electricians
Your search begins with gathering a group of potential electricians who work in your area. The service might come from an individual contractor or a dedicated provider who has a team of electricians for commercial properties.
You could ask others for suggestions for good electricians or businesses in your locale. Word of mouth often is an excellent source for finding good candidates and crossing bad ones off your list.
You also could look online and maybe check with a local chamber of commerce. You are looking for bona fide providers of electrician services who are reasonably affordable and qualified to do the work for commercial entities.
Review credentials and training
A professional commercial electrician can be legitimate only when licensed by the state to be an electrician. Many people might gain some experience doing minor electrical work in their homes, but that does not mean they are qualified professional electricians. It might mean they are overconfident and pose a potential danger to your commercial operation.
You need to request the credentials that prove a prospective commercial electrician has the education, training and experience needed to do the work. You cannot become an electrician without completing either an apprenticeship or a relevant trade school program at a community college or similar educational institution.
The electrician also should be licensed and in good standing with the relevant licensing board in your state. You can call the licensing body to confirm that the electrician is licensed and approved to do the work you want done.
Obtain references and work examples
An experienced commercial electrician or company should have several current and former clients who can confirm the type of work done and its general quality. These references can also let you know if they think the rates charged were fair and equitable.
You should ask any prospective electricians or commercial electrical services providers to provide you with some references. This is no different than hiring an employee and seeking references that can affirm the candidate does good work.
You should check to ensure that the references are legitimate and not distant family members or other people who have a vested interest in lying to you so that you will hire a particular electrician or service provider.
An electrician or service that is seeking commercial clients should have examples of local or regional commercial clients who have benefited form the electrician’s work. Work examples help to show what the electrician can do and the scale of projects for which that work has been done in the past.
Narrow your options
After you have compiled your list of possible commercial electricians, you should narrow your options to the best two or three. Then you can take a much closer look at each and determine the best one for your ongoing business relationship.
An electrician is a provider of a critical service upon which your commercial enterprise will be very dependent. That makes it very important to hire only qualified providers of commercial electrical services. You might have similarly qualified electricians available for the job. Maybe only one or two of them asked to view your facility to get a better idea of your service needs. That could be a great way to narrow your choices because it shows initiative and a true interest in providing you with the best possible service.
Will the electrician fulfill your needs?
Whether the commercial electrician or company providing the services can fulfill your business needs is critically important. If the candidate has done similar work that has held up over time, that is a very good indicator that your needs will be fulfilled.
An overworked and overloaded electrician is more prone to making errors. So the more experienced the electrician or service is in handling accounts like yours, the more likely it is that you will benefit from truly professional service.
That is why it is critically important to thoroughly investigate your potential electricians or service providers and determine which one is the best possible fit. Without due diligence, you could make a terrible choice and suffer the consequences – an electrical failure or another problem that affects your business operations.
After assessing all of the options available, you need to make your decision and negotiate the terms for services provided by your electrician. You might choose an individual or a dedicated electrical services company that has a team of commercial electricians.
Why you should hire us
We take the pain out of searching for qualified electrician services for commercial operators. We put our electricians through a thorough vetting process that ensures we hire only the best and most experienced. When we hire the best, so do you when you choose us to provide your electrician services. We have a well-earned reputation for performing high-quality work and can design, install and maintain your commercial electrical system. We are very reliable and provide exceptional customer service for every