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You need an electrician in Medford Lakes, NJ, and the cabin lights dim every time the furnace kicks on. Chris picks up right away, and you know the price first.
Stagg Electric is Chris Stagg, a licensed electrician working out of West Berlin, about twenty-three minutes from Medford Lakes on a clear road, and the estimate is free.
- 5.0 on Google
- 15 reviews
- NJ #19320
- Insured
Medford Lakes electrician, every service
Looking for a licensed electrician in Medford Lakes, NJ who answers his own phone?
Stagg Electric is a licensed electrician in Medford Lakes, NJ, license 19320 and insured. Medford Lakes is its own borough with its own construction office, and Medford Township next door is a different town. He is the emergency electrician in Medford Lakes people call at midnight, because he runs 24 hours and picks up his own phone. West Berlin is about twenty-three minutes away on a clear road. The estimate is free. The price is agreed before he starts.
A log cabin has no wall cavity to fish a cable through, so a new circuit in Medford Lakes goes through the chinking or through a hole bored with a long drill. That changes how he plans a panel replacement in Medford Lakes, a breaker box upgrade, or a service upgrade. He runs dedicated circuits in Medford Lakes for the dryer or the range that keeps tripping the room. He does EV charger installation in Medford Lakes on its own circuit, so the car charges overnight at home. He does recessed lighting in Medford Lakes inside and out, and outdoor lighting placed so the walk and the porch look designed. He does generator wiring in Medford Lakes too, so the block going dark stops meaning your food does.
If you do not know what is wrong, electrical troubleshooting in Medford Lakes is where most calls start, because the dead outlet and the breaker nobody could explain are most of the job. New construction and renovation wiring in Medford Lakes is the rough in and finish work for the addition or the gut job. The permit comes from the Borough of Medford Lakes Office of Construction, and an outbuilding in the Historic District goes to the Historic Commission and the Planning Board first. All of Medford Lakes is on PSE&G. An outage is a call to them first, and the panel onward is his. Send the form or call him.
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What he does in Medford Lakes
Eight things he does in Medford Lakes, and what each one looks like.
- Licensed · NJ #19320
- Insured · Proof available on request
- Pricing · Upfront, agreed first
- Emergencies · 24/7, he picks up
Old service brought up to a modern amperage so the house stops fighting you every time something switches on.
The service page
Interior and exterior recessed lighting, placed so the finished job actually looks designed.
The service page
A proper circuit run to the driveway or garage so the car charges overnight at home.
The service page
Full rough-in and finish work for additions, gut jobs and new builds.
Service upgrades
What he knows about Medford Lakes
Three things that are true in Medford Lakes and not three towns over.
Log construction and the wiring
The Borough's own history says the town began as a resort where all construction would be of log, with walls of solid cedar log inside and out, that log cabins were built exclusively in the borough through the 1930s and into the 1940s, and that once the logs are in place the wiring and plumbing have to go through the chinking spaces between layers or through holes bored with extra long drills.
Housing age
Census median year built 1960, with 97.4 percent of homes built before 1980, 81.5 percent before 1970 and 18.3 percent before 1940, and every housing unit in the borough a single-family detached house, the only one of the sixteen towns he covers where that is so (ACS 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates).
Historic District design standards
Chapter 145, Article XXIV of the Borough code applies specific standards to reconstruction, renovations and additions to existing log structures, defines new construction to include garages, sheds and accessory structures and requires full-log or half-log construction for them unless a waiver is granted, and since a December 2023 amendment bars demolishing any log structure in whole or in part without the Historic Preservation Commission's recommendation and Planning Board approval. The article does not mention exterior lighting, meters or electrical equipment.
Each card was read from medfordlakes.com, api.censusreporter.org and ecode360.com, and checked on 2026-09-19.
Medford Lakes, Burlington County
Where a Medford Lakes job actually gets approved.
Medford Lakes is its own borough, separate from Medford Township next door, with its own Office of Construction at 1 Cabin Circle, its own Historic Preservation Commission and its own Planning Board. It sits entirely inside the state Pinelands Area and, less obviously, on PSE&G rather than Atlantic City Electric. Here is what is true in Medford Lakes and not in Medford Township next door.
The office that signs off a Medford Lakes job
Borough of Medford Lakes Office of Construction
- Where
- 1 Cabin Circle, Medford Lakes, NJ 08055
- Phone
- (609) 654-8898
- Utility
- PSE&G
Before you call, in Medford Lakes
Why is rewiring a Medford Lakes cabin a different job from rewiring a house in Cherry Hill?
Because there is no wall cavity. The Borough's own history says the walls are solid cedar log inside and out. Once the logs are in place the wiring has to go through the chinking spaces between the layers, or through holes bored with long drills. A frame house has a stud bay to fish a cable through and a full log cabin does not. So a new circuit is planned around the chinking lines, the floor and the roof.
Source: medfordlakes.comDoes the Pinelands Commission get involved in electrical work in Medford Lakes?
For a cabin that is already standing, usually not, even though the whole borough is inside the Pinelands Area. The Commission's own rule exempts fixing up an existing single family house from applying to it. Exempt does not mean permit free. So the construction permit still comes from the Borough's own Office of Construction at 1 Cabin Circle. That is a different office from Medford Township's on Union Street, because the two are separate towns.
Source: nj.govIs Medford Lakes on Atlantic City Electric like the rest of the Pinelands?
No, and it catches people out. The state's electric utility map puts the whole of Medford Lakes in PSE&G. Its Pinelands neighbours Shamong, Hammonton and Atco are all Atlantic City Electric, and Medford Township next door is split between the two. So in Medford Lakes an outage or a downed line is a call to PSE&G. The meter base, the panel and everything past it is where a licensed electrician takes over.
Source: mapsdep.nj.gov
Office details and the answers above are read from the office's own pages, the state's own documents and the Census, and were checked on 2026-09-19. Call ahead before you drive there, because hours move.
Chris Stagg, owner
NJ license 19320 · insured
Who you are calling
The person who quotes the Medford Lakes job is the person who comes back and does it.
Stagg Electric is Chris. He answers his own phone, the estimate is free and you know the price before anything starts. The license on the job is his, New Jersey 19320, he is insured, and for emergencies he runs 24/7.
Medford Lakes is about twenty-three minutes from his own driveway, so the person who looks at the job is the person who comes back and does it, and in a log cabin the look is the part that decides how the job gets done.
From his Google listing, in the words people wrote
“Stagg electric created a beautiful porch ambiance with our new exterior lighting. We couldn't be more pleased! Stagg electric is easy to work with, super professional, and had a speedy execution! Thank you so much!”
“Chris was really helpful and responds right away! Puts the time into his work and helped me understand everything, very professional. Wouldn't go to anyone else!”
“Nice electrician. Knows his stuff and reasonable price. Will use again.”
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Estimates are free and Chris Stagg picks up his own phone.