Commercial Electrician in Northeast Washington
A failed inspection does not just cost you the fix. It costs you the opening date.
We have been wiring businesses across Northeast Washington since 1992, from storefronts on 1st Avenue in Colville out to shops and offices in the Spokane area. Our crews handle the panel work, the lighting, the permits, and the inspector visit. You get one number to call and one team that finishes what it started.
What Our Commercial Customers Say
Commercial Electrical Work We Handle
Most of our commercial calls fall into a handful of jobs. Here is what we do week in and week out.
- Ground-up wiring for new business locations. Bid through final inspection, including the coordination with the other trades on site.
- Panel relocation and circuit expansion. New equipment usually needs new circuits, and the old panel rarely has room.
- LED retrofits. We swap outdated fixtures in offices, shops, and service bays.
- Parking lot and sign lighting. Lamp changes, ballast replacement, and repair work on pole-mounted fixtures.
- Office remodels. Moving outlets and switches when the floor plan changes.
- Service pole work. Installation and replacement, coordinated with the utility.
Our 36-foot reach bucket truck handles the overhead work. That matters more than people expect. Parking lot poles and sign lighting need real reach, and renting a lift adds a day and a bill to a job that should take an afternoon.
How a Commercial Job Runs With Us
Ever waited three weeks for a contractor to pull a permit?
We would rather not put you through that. Our process is the same on a two hour service call as it is on a ground-up build.
We walk the site first. No guessing from a phone description. We look at the panel, the service, and the space you actually want powered.
We put the scope in writing. You see what is included and what is not before anyone starts.
We handle permits and inspections. We file the paperwork and we meet the inspector on site. Our case files include jobs that passed on the first attempt, which is the whole point of doing the prep work.
We coordinate the utility. Anything touching the service means working with Avista. We schedule that ahead of the crew so nobody stands around waiting for a disconnect.
We clean up. Your customers walk through that space the next morning.
What Commercial Electrical Work Costs Around Here
We will not print a price list, because the honest answer is that two jobs that sound identical rarely are. What we can tell you is what moves the number.
- Panel size and available capacity. Adding circuits to a panel with room is cheap. Replacing a panel that is full is a different job.
- Whether the utility has to get involved. Service upgrades and pole work mean scheduling around Avista.
- Trenching and underground runs. Rock and frost change the day count in this part of the state.
- Fixture count and mounting height. Twenty fixtures at 12 feet is not the same job as twenty at 30 feet.
- After-hours work. Some businesses cannot lose a trading day, so we work around opening hours.
We give you the estimate in writing. On the Woodland Theatre job in Kettle Falls we came in under it, and we have customers who mention that in their reviews years later.
Problems Northeast Washington Businesses
Call Us About
How much of your building’s wiring do you actually know the history of?
Older commercial buildings in Colville, WA and out toward Kettle Falls are full of wiring that was legal when it went in and is not anymore. Cloth-insulated runs. Panels with no room. Circuits that were extended three owners ago by somebody who is no longer around to explain what they did.
We also get the emergency calls. When flooding knocked out the electrical system at the Colville public pool, we installed new conduit and feeder systems for the boiler room, the chemical pump controls, and the basement equipment, then wired the start circuits and got it running again.
Medical and equipment-heavy sites bring a different problem. One medical building needed emergency power that would actually hold up to a code review, so we installed a 26kW generator with two transfer switches, plus the controls and programming to go with it.
And when a service pole rots out, the power is on borrowed time. We have replaced poles threatening the whole service, working with Avista and setting a new butt-treated cedar pole in place.
Why Businesses Here Keep Calling Us
We are local, and that is not a slogan on this one. The shop has been at 423 W 1st Ave in Colville since 2001. Joe Floener started the business in 1992. Spencer Franck bought it in 2025, and he grew up in the shop because his dad worked for Joe.
A few things that are genuinely different about working with us:
A 5 year guarantee. Most contractors give you one year. If something we did is not right, we come back and fix it.
Underground fault locating. When a buried run fails, finding it is the expensive part. We own the equipment, so we are not excavating your parking lot on a guess.
Journey-level electricians with current continuing education. Licensed, bonded, and insured in Washington State. BBB accredited since March 2023 with an A plus rating.
Need residential work too? Our residential electrical services cover the same territory. If you are wiring a new building from scratch, start with new construction electrical, and for structured cabling see low voltage wiring.
Frequently Asked Questions
Book a Commercial Electrical Assessment for Your Colville
or Spokane Area Business
Call us at (509) 684-8353 or request a quote online. We answer the phone, and you will not be routed through a robot to get a human.