Commercial
Commercial Electrical
Service, distribution, lighting and power for businesses — scheduled around your trading hours.
Commercial Electrical — what's involved
Commercial electrical work differs from residential in three ways that matter: the distribution is usually three-phase, the equipment loads are specified by someone else's engineer, and the building is generating revenue while you work in it. The third one drives everything — a shutdown that would be a minor inconvenience at home is a closed restaurant or an idle production line, so the schedule is often as important as the installation.
Electric Shock takes on commercial service and installation work for small and mid-sized properties: distribution and panel work, lighting installation and retrofit, dedicated circuits for equipment, and the ongoing repairs and modifications a tenanted building generates. Work that requires an outage gets scheduled outside trading hours where it possibly can be.
Commercial work we take on
- Three-phase distribution, panelboards, disconnects and feeders
- Service upgrades and meter equipment for commercial buildings
- Dedicated circuits for kitchen, production, HVAC and IT equipment
- Commercial lighting installation and LED retrofits, interior and exterior
- Exit and emergency lighting installation and testing
- Parking lot, wall pack and building exterior lighting
- Troubleshooting and repair on occupied commercial premises
- Ongoing scheduled maintenance for property managers and building owners
The Commercial Electrical process
Site survey and scope
We walk the premises, establish the existing distribution, and confirm the scope against what the equipment and the occupancy actually require.
Plan around the operation
What can be done live, what needs an outage, and when that outage can happen. For most commercial clients this is the decisive part of the plan.
Coordinate permits and other trades
Commercial work usually involves a permit, an inspection, and at least one other trade. We sequence with them rather than around them.
Install and document
Work carried out to the agreed schedule, with distribution properly labeled and any as-built changes recorded.
Test, inspect and hand over
Testing, inspection sign-off, and a clear handover of what changed — which matters when the next contractor in has to understand the building.
What you get out of it
Scheduled around trading
Outages planned for evenings, early mornings or closed days wherever the work allows it.
Documentation that survives
Labeled distribution and recorded changes save every future contractor — and you — a great deal of time.
One contractor across the property
Service work, lighting and tenant changes handled by people who already know the building.
Commercial Electrical questions
Still not sure? Send us the details and we'll give you a straight answer before anything is booked.
Do you work outside business hours?
Can you work on three-phase equipment?
Do you take on maintenance as well as projects?
Often booked alongside this
- Tenant ImprovementsElectrical fit-out for new tenancies: demolition, distribution, lighting and equipment power.
- New Construction WiringFull electrical packages for new builds and additions, from temp power to final trim.
- Electrical Safety InspectionsWritten condition reports for home purchases, insurance, rentals and older properties.
Need Commercial Electrical?
Tell us about the property and what you're trying to achieve. Quotes are free and there's no obligation.
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Pick Commercial Electrical from the service list below and tell us what you need. Photographs of the panel, the room or the equipment help us answer far more precisely.