Commercial Electrical

Fuel Time, North Main Street, Roxboro

This is one of the jobs we’re proudest of in Roxboro.

The building on North Main Street where Fuel Time is a tenant had five separate electrical services, spread out along the length of the building. That may have met code when it went in. It doesn’t now: the code requires the services on a multi-tenant building to be grouped in one location. The building owner wanted to renovate, and the inspector had told him the services had to be brought up to code first.

A couple of contractors had quoted the job and then abandoned it. Another quote came in at a price the owner couldn’t justify. We worked with him to reach a realistic budget, then grouped the services and brought them up to code. The director of inspections was pleased to see a hazardous setup put right.

Morgan’s Mercantile, Roxboro

This one was family. The Morgans bought an old, abandoned hardware store and lumber yard property in Roxboro, renovated it, and ran it as Morgan’s Mercantile, a furniture, bedding and decor store. Nathan did all of the electrical work. That meant the lighting, including the lights along the storefront signs, and bringing the wall circuits up to date, with receptacles added where a showroom needs them. It also meant wiring a new rooftop HVAC unit.

Offices and shops

A lot of commercial work is service calls. One office in town had an air conditioner that kept tripping its breaker. The owner wanted someone who knew what they were doing to look at it before he swapped the breaker himself. We found a missing spring clip that had let the breaker work loose and heat up, and replaced it. There’s more on that job on our troubleshooting page.

Tenant build-outs

When a business leases a building in Roxboro, it often isn’t laid out the way the business wants. A tenant build-out rearranges the electrical to fit the new layout: offices, a conference room, whatever the business needs. More of the empty spaces in town are being leased, and we work either with the business directly or with its general contractor.

When Catch the Fever Outdoors leased its building, it wanted new offices and a conference room laid out its own way, and we did the electrical to match. Nathan has also done a complete build-out for a Domino’s Pizza in Augusta, Georgia.

Piedmont Community College

We’ve done lighting, receptacles and network wiring for Piedmont Community College.

Industrial work

Nathan started as a helper on a large industrial job in Louisiana and spent years after that in chemical plants, natural gas pumping stations and power plants. Today we do light industrial work and track down motor control faults. More on our industrial page.

Permits and inspections

We pull the permit and handle the paperwork, for a fee on top of what the county or town charges for the permit itself. Our North Carolina unlimited license covers work of any size or type, in any county or town in the state that requires a permit. We’re at the inspection ourselves, so if the inspector wants something changed, we can usually correct it on the spot and pass.