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Electrical contractor · Phoenix, AZ 85027
The crew that writes the scope before it pulls a single wire.
Phoenix Electricians Today is a commercial electrician in Phoenix, an electrical contractor working out of 23309 N 17th Dr, Phoenix, Arizona 85027. Mostly commercial electrical installation: suites, switchrooms, warehouse ceilings and parking lots. The website runs at phoenixelectricianstoday.de and the business behind it trades as Phoenixelectricianstoday.
What the van is loaded for
Commercial electrical installation in Phoenix, AZ, and the repairs that come after it.
Five kinds of job keep the crew busy. Tenant-improvement fit-outs, where a suite gets new distribution, branch circuits and lighting, EMT on the open deck and MC cable in the demising walls. Service and switchgear upgrades from 200A to 1200A, single or three-phase, with the utility release and the shutdown planned out of hours. LED lighting retrofits with occupancy and daylight controls, which is where most of the energy savings in this business actually come from. Level 2 EV charging for staff and customer lots, after a load calculation on the service that's already there. And troubleshooting and repair for breakers that trip, terminations that run hot and circuits that died overnight.
We do some residential work too, mostly for owners whose buildings we already look after. It isn't a separate line and we don't advertise it.
The clients are property managers, general contractors, restaurant and retail operators, and small industrial tenants around the Phoenix metro. If you're one of those and you have a set of plans or a problem, the contact page takes the details.
On site
How the crew runs a job site
Same routine on a 1,200-square-foot nail salon and a warehouse with a 1200A switchboard. Routine is what stops someone getting hurt at 4 p.m. on a Friday.
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Walk it before we price it
We walk the site before we price it. A quote written from a floor plan misses the 40-foot run to the old meter bank every time. On the walk the foreman opens the panels, checks the bus rating against the label, looks at where the feeders actually enter, and photographs anything the drawings don't show.
From that walk comes the written scope: what's included, what's excluded, and what the inspector is going to look at. Nobody pulls wire until you've signed it.
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Lockout, tagout, every time
Nothing gets worked hot that can be shut off. Every isolated breaker or disconnect gets a lock and a tag with the electrician's name on it, and the lock comes off only when that same person takes it off. Then we test for absence of voltage with a meter we've just proven on a known live source. Checking the meter first sounds fussy. It's also the step people skip right before they find out the meter battery was dead.
When a shutdown would take down a kitchen line or a server closet, we plan it with you, usually before 6 a.m. or on a Sunday, written into the scope with the hours stated.
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Working in occupied buildings
Most of our repair work and a lot of the fit-outs happen with tenants open next door. Ceiling tiles come down one bay at a time and go back the same day. Ladders don't stay standing in a corridor overnight. Anything that will be loud, like core drilling or the hammer drill into block, gets scheduled with the property manager before we start, not apologized for afterwards.
If we have to kill a circuit that feeds a neighbor, they hear about it from us, with a time, the day before.
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Cleanup and handover
Conduit offcuts, wire scraps, stripped insulation and the cardboard from forty boxes of fittings go back on the van at the end of each day. We vacuum the drilling dust out of new panels before the cover goes on, because metal shavings on a bus bar are a fault waiting for a reason.
Your panel schedule will be typed, labeled and taped inside the door. Not pencil. Not blank. You also get the as-built changes marked up on the drawings and the inspection card once it's signed off.
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One foreman, one phone number
The foreman who walks your job is the one who runs it. You don't get passed to a different person between quote and install. If something changes, like a wall moves or the GC adds six circuits for a coffee bar, it goes on a written change order before the work happens, with the reason and the cost basis on the same page.
Heat and derating
Sized for July on the roof, not for a textbook in Ohio.
Most failed inspections we get called in to fix come down to one thing: nobody derated the conductors for a roof that hits 150 degrees. A wire sitting in a conduit on a Phoenix roof deck in July isn't running at the 86°F the ampacity tables assume. It's baking. Its insulation is closer to its limit before a single amp goes through it.
So every rooftop or attic run gets the correction worked out on paper before material is ordered. We start from the 90°C column for THHN in EMT, apply the ambient correction factor for the real temperature at that height above the roof, and then apply the adjustment for the number of current-carrying conductors in the raceway. Four to six conductors in one pipe drops you to 80 percent. Seven to nine, 70 percent. After all that the result still can't exceed what the 75°C terminals on the breaker and the equipment are rated for, which is the bit that catches people out.
Often the answer is one size up on the wire. Sometimes it's splitting a run into two conduits instead of one stuffed pipe, which keeps the bundle count down and stays well under the 40 percent fill limit. Sometimes it means taking the run off the roof entirely and through the ceiling space, which costs more in labor and less over twenty summers. The scope tells you which one we chose and why.
Aluminum, copper and torque
Aluminum feeders are fine. Aluminum feeders with the wrong lugs and no torque wrench are how a switchboard cooks itself. We land aluminum on lugs rated for it, use antioxidant compound where the manufacturer calls for it, and torque every termination to the value on the equipment label with a calibrated tool. Then we mark it with a paint pen, so anyone who opens that panel later can see the lug was torqued and hasn't moved.
Loose terminations show up on our repair calls more than any other single fault. A connection that's a quarter turn loose in March can be glowing by August once it has gone through a few hundred heat cycles. You'll see that kind of call on the repair section.
Short list
What we will not do, and why
A handful of things. Each one comes from a job we were called to fix after somebody else did it.
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Quote over the phone
We don't quote over the phone. We'll tell you roughly where the money goes, then put the number in writing after we've seen it. A phone number turns into a change order the moment the ceiling comes down, and that's worse for you than waiting two days for a real one.
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Cash jobs with no permit
Every job that needs a permit gets one. Your insurer will ask for the inspection record, and so will whoever buys the building next, and an unpermitted service change can hold up a certificate of occupancy for weeks. If the plan is to skip the permit, call someone else.
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Promise a date the utility controls
If the utility needs a service release, that adds lead time we don't control. We tell you that on day one, not week six. The same goes for switchgear on long factory lead times: you get the supplier's date in writing, not our guess.
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Reuse what fails the walk
An old panel with a scorched bus stab or a breaker brand that's no longer listed for it doesn't get reused to save a line on the quote. We'll show you the photo and tell you why it has to go.
Reaching a person
The office picks up the phone. Email gets read the same working day.
- Phone623-209-5244. Answered on working days during site hours. After hours, leave the address and what has failed. A dead service or a burning smell gets a call back first.
- Email[email protected]. Send drawings, panel photos and the service size here. A person reads it and replies, normally within one working day.
- Address23309 N 17th Dr, Phoenix, Arizona 85027, United States. This is where the van loads, not a showroom, so call before you drive over.
- ChatThe chat button at the bottom of every page goes to the same office. Replies come from a person.
Data questions, including requests to see or delete what you've sent us, go to the same email. The privacy policy explains how that works, and the terms cover quotes and site access.