28 services across 5 areas of work
Electrical services in Woodside, NY
Everything we do, with the price range published beside it. The ranges are honest ones — the low end is a straightforward version of the job and the high end is one with a real access problem — and we will tell you which one you have after somebody has come and looked.
If you can smell burning, see smoke, or have a downed line outside, do not call us first. Leave the building and call the fire department, or call Con Edison for anything on the utility's side of the meter. What to do before we arrive says which is which, and the advice is free either way.
Panels & power
The supply, and everything downstream of it
Panels, services, breakers and the arithmetic that decides which of them you actually need. This is where the most money gets spent in this trade and where the most of it gets wasted.
Electrical panel upgrades
Replacing a tired or undersized load centre with a modern one — filed, inspected, and done in a day and a half.
$3,400 – $6,800
Service upgrades to 200 amps
Taking a house from 100 amps to 200, including the mast, the meter pan and the utility coordination.
$5,200 – $11,500
Breakers, AFCI and GFCI protection
Nuisance trips, dead circuits, and bringing arc-fault and ground-fault protection up to where the code now expects it.
$185 – $520
Subpanels and feeders
A second distribution point for a finished basement, an attic conversion, a garage or a rental unit.
$1,600 – $4,200
Load calculations and capacity
The arithmetic that decides whether you need a service upgrade at all — done before anybody quotes you one.
$340Wiring & rewiring
What is in the walls of an old Queens house
Rewires, knob-and-tube, aluminium branch circuits, new circuits, and finding the fault that is making all of it behave strangely. Most of this housing stock was wired for one lamp a room.
Whole-house rewiring
Replacing the wiring of an old Queens house in stages you can live through, room by room where that suits.
$14,000 – $42,000
Knob-and-tube replacement
Century-old cloth-insulated wiring, why insurers ask about it, and how it comes out without gutting the house.
$4,800 – $26,000
Aluminium branch-circuit repair
The permanent repair the Consumer Product Safety Commission actually recommends — which is usually not a rewire.
$1,900 – $5,400
New circuits and dedicated lines
A circuit for the window unit, the home office, the dryer or the workshop — run properly, rather than spurred off something.
$420 – $1,300
Fault finding and troubleshooting
Half the house dark, a breaker that will not stay in, a smell you cannot place. Diagnosis first, quote second.
$165Grounding, safety & testing
The parts that do nothing until they matter
Grounding, bonding, surveys, thermal imaging, surge protection and alarms. Unglamorous, comparatively cheap, and collectively the largest safety improvement available in most old buildings.
Grounding and bonding checkups
The part of your system that does nothing at all until the day it is the only thing between you and a fault.
$285 – $2,200
Electrical safety inspections
A written report on what we found, what we could not reach, and what actually needs doing first.
$385
Thermal imaging surveys
A loose termination runs hot long before it fails. A camera finds it while it is still cheap.
$450 – $1,100
Whole-home surge protection
What a service-entrance device does, what it does not do, and why it is not a substitute for a strip at the desk.
$540 – $980
Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms
Interconnected, mains-powered alarms on every level, sited where they will actually hear a fire.
$180 – $340Lighting & devices
Light, and the things you touch
Lighting design, downlights, outlets, switches, dimmers, fans and outdoor schemes. The visible half of the trade, and the half where a considered layout beats an expensive fitting every time.
Lighting design and layout
Deciding where light should fall before anybody cuts a hole in your ceiling. Usually fewer fittings, not more.
$650 – $2,400
Recessed lighting and LED retrofits
Downlights set out on a grid that suits the room, and honest arithmetic on what a retrofit saves.
$210 – $390
Outlets, switches and dimmers
Adding, moving and replacing devices — including the two-prong outlets an old Queens house is still full of.
$145 – $420
Ceiling fans and fixture hanging
Heavy fittings hung off a box that is rated to carry them, which is the part everybody skips.
$260 – $640
Outdoor and landscape lighting
Stoops, paths, yards and party walls — wired for weather, and aimed so it does not blind the neighbours.
$980 – $6,500EV, backup & commercial
Cars, outages, and premises
EV chargers, standby power, appliance and HVAC circuits, data, emergency call-outs, and the commercial work along Roosevelt Avenue and Queens Boulevard.
EV charger installation
A Level 2 charger on a dedicated circuit, filed and inspected, with the load calculation done first.
$1,150 – $3,200
Standby generators and interlocks
From a mechanical interlock for the portable you already own, to a permanently installed standby set.
$780 – $16,000
Appliance and HVAC circuits
Ranges, dryers, wall ovens, mini-splits and window units, each on the circuit its nameplate actually asks for.
$520 – $1,800
Data, doorbell and low-voltage wiring
Structured cabling, video doorbells and intercoms, run and terminated like the rest of the work.
$240 – $2,900
Emergency electrician
An electrician on the telephone every night of the year — and an honest answer about when we can be there.
$285
Commercial electrical work
Shops, restaurants, clinics and small offices along Roosevelt and Queens Boulevard — fit-outs and service work.
Quoted after a walk-through
Emergency and egress lighting
The battery units and egress lighting a commercial space is inspected on — installed, commissioned and tested.
$420 – $760
Landlord and building compliance
Violations, meter rooms, common-area circuits, and the electrical work a small building keeps needing.
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Book a visit
Telephone the shop and you will get an electrician rather than a call centre. For defined work — a panel, a charger, a lighting scheme — the quote is free. For a fault, the visit is the diagnosis and it is $165 for the first hour, credited against the work if you go ahead the same visit. Either way we will tell you on the telephone which one it is.