Residential Renovation

New post lamp: outdoor weather equals time for exterior lighting

The season of garden parties and BBQ’s has arrived, and it’s time to adjust (or upgrade to auto-adjusting) lighting timers and controls, or even upgrade [...]

Lots of tools for a little baseboard outlet

20kW generator brings relief from power outages in Philadelphia suburbs

Upgrade to automatic backup power for whole house For one customer in Villanova, the news from superstorm Sandy was the last straw after decades of [...]

West Philadelphia kitchen remodeling for victorian twin

For this West Philadelphia kitchen remodel, renovation and expansion project, we rewired to modern code and for convenience upgrades throughout the kitchen and breakfast/dining room, and [...]

Society Hill Towers condo renovation

As electrical subcontractor on this project, I complied with stringent licensing and insurance credentialing, and schedule requirements of the high-rise Society Hill Towers condo owners’ [...]

Den recessed lighting accents fireplace mantle

This small project brought four new recessed lighting locations to a 2nd floor den, nicely highlighting the fireplace mantle there.  

Rewire of antique drawing room plaster medallion chandelier pendant

Sometimes, rewiring one part of a home provides an opportunity to take care of something really special. While re-wiring the third floor of a 1860′s [...]

Whole-house rewire of 7 bedroom twin in West Philadelphia

Whole-house rewire of 7 bedroom twin in West Philadelphia This Whole-house rewire of 7 bedroom twin in West Philadelphia stopped short of adding locations to the [...]

Modern Kitchen Renovation in a West Philly Twin

New counter receptacles and disposal plus extension of an existing lighting fixture circuit to one new location, and replacement of out-dated fixtures combined with new [...]

Recess lights installed with minimal plaster repair

Recess lights installed with minimal plaster repair: This project added five recess lights to the living and dining rooms of a 2-story West Philadelphia twin. [...]

Airy, warm kitchen renovation in compact 2-story twin

Upgrading a semi-finished mud-room to a finished space with powder room provided the opportunity to reconfigure this kitchen in a modest, 2-story West Philadelphia twin. [...]

60A Main Lugs Only (MLO) Distribution Breaker Panel (DP)

This project is a rewire of a 2-story row home in the Art Museum district of Philadelphia, with an expansion of breaker panel capacity via [...]

200A Service Upgrade and new receptacles

This project on S Melville St. features: 200A Service Upgrade and new receptacles 200A service upgrade and new receptacles from existing 100A, with 30+ breaker positions [...]

Victorian twin whole-house rewire

I coordinated closely with General Contractor (GC) Jaysun Taylor for this bank-financed project to provide all modern wiring and 2008 NEC code-compliant locations and new [...]

Basement bath renovations electrical

The scope of this electrical contract for bath renovations in a tight basement area was to provide all new point to point wiring and devices/fixtures. [...]

Recessed lighting upgrade via attic crawlspace

Recessed lighting upgrade via attic crawlspace This was a tidy little project to upgrade aged and cheap track fixture ceiling lights in two rooms, into [...]

200A underground service upgrade

This was a straightforward 200A service upgrade job on the service side, but a nest of badly labeled branch circuit conductors in a shared raceway [...]

Pneumatic Elevator and Misc. Renovation

This project involved 30A, 220V power and telephone callbox wiring to supply an innovative pneumatic elevator tube lift that works on the same principles as [...]