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Four hundred units or forty, every apartment gets the same fix and one price. Chris runs the whole job.
Turnovers, breaker and panel replacements and repairs across apartment complexes in South Jersey, for property managers, landlords and owners. Licensed and insured, NJ #19320, with a free estimate and the price agreed before work starts.
- Licensed
- NJ #19320
- Insured
- Proof available on request
- 5.0 from 28 reviews
- Emergencies
- 24/7, he picks up
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Tell him about the property. He answers his own phone.
- 5.0 rating on Google
- 28 five-star reviews
- NJ licensed #19320
- Insured
- Free estimates
- 24/7 emergency service
- Residential and commercial
- Based in West Berlin, NJ
What he does
The electrical work a building full of units needs, priced as one job.
Unit turnovers
The electrical in a unit between tenants, done before the next one moves in.
Breakers and panels across units
The same replacement run through every unit, the same way in every panel.
Panel labelling
Every breaker marked with what it feeds, so the next maintenance call starts with a panel anyone can read.
Common areas and parking lots
Hallway, stairwell, walkway and lot lighting that tenants notice when it is out.
Troubleshooting and emergency repairs
The unit with no power or the breaker that will not reset, answered 24/7.
Dedicated circuits
Their own line for laundry rooms, HVAC and the equipment that keeps tripping everything else.
His work
Right now it is four hundred apartments in Lindenwold, one panel at a time.
The breakers in every unit were painted over, so every one gets replaced and labelled, unit by unit.
Breakers painted over inside an apartment unit
Lindenwold, NJ
An apartment panel opened up for the breaker swap
Lindenwold, NJ
The apartment complex where the breaker job is
Lindenwold, NJ
Good to know
What New Jersey asks of apartment complexes, and what it means for the job.
- Landlord electrical duties
- N.J.A.C. 5:10-13.1 requires owners of multiple dwellings to keep electrical service in good working order and adequate for the load, and to light every entrance and exit. Source
- Like-for-like needs no permit
- Replacing a receptacle, switch or light fixture with a like one is ordinary maintenance in New Jersey, so it needs no permit. New circuits and panels do. Source
- Own circuits for laundry and heat
- The laundry circuit has to be an individual circuit, and electric heating equipment gets its own circuit too. Source
How a production job runs
He looks inside the units first, then the same job runs through the rest.
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He opens a few units first
The price comes from what is actually inside the units, so the first step is opening some of them and seeing what the job is. Paint on the breakers, a panel that does not match the one next door, or a circuit nobody can identify all change the scope, and you hear about it before the number.
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One price for the scope
The estimate is free and it covers the job across the units, and the number is agreed before the work starts.
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The permit goes in
Replacing breakers is not on New Jersey's list of ordinary maintenance, so it is permitted work through the municipal construction office, and the inspection closes it out.
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Every panel gets labelled
Each breaker gets a legible, permanent description of what it feeds, so the next maintenance call in that unit starts with a panel anyone can read.
Before the work starts
Questions owners and managers ask.
Straight answers, read off the code and the state's own rules.
01Do I need a permit every time an electrician works in one of my units?
New Jersey treats swapping a receptacle, switch or light fixture for a like one as ordinary maintenance, which needs no permit. New circuits, a new panel or new wiring are permitted work, filed by a licensed electrical contractor and inspected before the space is used. On a turnover, that means a like-for-like swap can go ahead, and anything more gets permitted.
02What am I required to maintain as a landlord for the electrical in my building?
New Jersey's maintenance rules for multiple dwellings say the electrical service has to be kept in good operating condition and adequate for the load it serves. Every entrance and exit has to be lit well enough for safe passage, and extension cords are limited by length and rating. These are standing duties, not a one-time inspection.
03Do heating equipment and laundry rooms need their own circuits?
Yes. The same rules say a laundry circuit has to be an individual circuit with a grounded receptacle near the equipment, and any heating equipment that needs electricity to run or be controlled gets its own circuit too.
04Do the breakers in every unit have to be labelled?
Yes. The National Electrical Code asks for every circuit to carry a legible, specific description of what it feeds, and it cannot depend on something that changes, like a tenant's name. On a production job every panel gets labelled the same way.
Other commercial work
He works on every kind of commercial property, from one storefront to a whole complex.
Licensed and insured, NJ #19320. If your building is not on this list, call anyway.
Retail, strip malls and storefronts
Storefront, canopy and parking lot lighting, and power where the layout changed.
Restaurants and bars
Dedicated circuits for the kitchen line and lighting for the dining room.
Gyms and fitness studios
Power for the equipment floor and bright, even lighting.
Offices and warehouses
LED high-bays across the ceiling, build-outs and power where the work happens.
Get the price first
Tell him about the property and he will tell you what it costs.
The estimate is free. It helps to have these ready:
- How many units, and how many buildings.
- What needs doing in each one, as best you know it.
- A photo of one unit's panel with the door open.
- Whether the units are occupied or between tenants.
- Who on site can let him into the units.
Get a commercial estimate
Free, and the price is agreed before work starts.