Electrical service across Chester County
Chester County is the run southeast of us, and one kind of building there is the reason we know it well. The country's largest concentration of mushroom farms sits around Kennett Square, and a growing room is electrically much closer to a poultry house than to anything else: controlled climate, constant humidity, washdown, and a crop that does not survive a long outage.
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Towns we work in
Where the work is across Chester County
Honey Brook and the western edge are 35 to 45 minutes. Kennett Square and the south are an hour or more.
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Honey Brook
The closest part of the county to us, plain sect farm country continuous with eastern Lancaster.
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Parkesburg
Small industrial units and farm ground, with older borough commercial stock in the middle.
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Coatesville
Industrial history and the buildings left from it, now carrying uses they were never wired for.
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Downingtown
Commercial and light industrial along the 30 corridor, plus fit outs and remodels through the borough.
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Oxford
Dairy, poultry and mushroom operations in the southwest of the county.
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Kennett Square
Mushroom growing rooms and the packing and cold storage that go with them.
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West Chester
Offices, retail and restaurants, where work fits around trading hours rather than around a crew.
A mushroom house is a controlled environment building
Growing rooms run at high humidity with tight temperature control, get washed between crops, and depend on air handling that cannot simply stop. Everything difficult about wiring a poultry house applies here too, for the same physical reasons.
That means enclosures and fittings selected for wet and corrosive conditions rather than from a general commercial catalogue, fixtures that can be washed and survive it, and controls wiring kept where moisture cannot reach the terminations. Equipment chosen on price lasts a couple of years in that air and then starts failing one unit at a time.
The reasoning behind those choices is set out in choosing a wiring method for agricultural buildings, and where livestock or dust bring Article 547 into it, what that article requires is worth reading first.
Air handling is the load that cannot wait
On a farm the critical list is short and specific, and it is what standby power should be sized around rather than the size of the service. In a growing operation it is air handling, circulation and whatever holds temperature, plus the cold storage on the packing side.
Sizing from the service is how operations end up paying for a generator twice as large as they need. Sizing from running load alone is how they end up with one that will not start the fans. Both mistakes are avoided by writing the load list down first, which is the argument in starting load against running load.
Honey Brook and the farm ground either side of the line
The western edge of the county around Honey Brook is continuous with eastern Lancaster: the same dairy and poultry operations, a large plain sect population, and the same question about what any given operation uses and does not.
That end is close enough to be an ordinary run for us, and it is continuous with the work we do across Lancaster County. Further south and east the drive gets long, so we take planned work there rather than same day service calls, and we say which is which when you ring.
What we are called for
The work Chester County asks us for most
Growing room and packing house wiring
Air handling, circulation and control circuits, in methods and enclosures that survive humidity and washdown.
See the marketStandby power for air handling
Sized from the loads that cannot stop, with automatic transfer and an alarm that reaches somebody at night.
See the serviceControls and sensor wiring
Temperature, humidity and airflow sensing, kept away from drive output and terminated where moisture cannot reach.
See the serviceCold storage and refrigeration circuits
Compressors, condensers and the monitoring that tells you a room is warming before the crop does.
See the marketMotor control and drives
Fans, pumps and handling equipment, with the overload sized to the nameplate rather than to the wire.
See the serviceFarm work around Honey Brook
Dairy and poultry on the Lancaster line, the same work we do every week on the other side of it.
See the marketWhat we work on
The 7 kinds of building we are inside most often across Chester County. If yours is not one of them, it is still worth a call: the question is what the building has to run, not what it is called.
Mushroom growing and packing houses
Cold storage and refrigerated rooms
Dairy barns and poultry houses
Light industrial and fabrication units
Commercial units, offices and restaurants
Pole buildings and equipment storage
Older borough buildings changing use
Work of this kind
Working in Chester County
- Yes. Electrically a growing room has more in common with a poultry house than with a warehouse: controlled climate, constant humidity, washdown and air handling that cannot stop. That is work we do every week in another form.
Next county over
Tell us what the building has to run
Describe the job and where in Chester County it is. Anatoly runs the crew and usually answers the phone himself, and if somebody closer would serve you better on that particular job, he will say so.