Electrical service across Dauphin County
Dauphin County is our western run, and it splits cleanly in two. The southern end is commercial and industrial: Harrisburg, the food manufacturing around Hershey, and the buildings that serve both. North of that the county turns rural fast, and the work looks like the farm work we do at home.
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Towns we work in
Where the work is across Dauphin County
Hershey and Hummelstown are 25 to 35 minutes. Harrisburg runs 35 to 50 depending on the hour.
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Hershey
Food manufacturing, hospitality and medical buildings, where production schedules decide when we can be in the room.
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Hummelstown
Small commercial and older stock along the 322 corridor, with farm ground starting just outside it.
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Harrisburg
City commercial: offices, restaurants, retail and services that have been added to for decades.
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Middletown
Industrial and logistics along the river and the airport, plus older buildings changing use.
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Steelton
Heavy industrial history and the wiring that came with it, much of it now feeding something different.
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Millersburg
The rural north of the county: farms, shops and long runs between buildings.
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Elizabethville
Poultry, dairy and grain in the upper end of the county, the furthest we usually go in this direction.
Two counties in one set of lines
The southern third of Dauphin is dense and commercial. The northern two thirds is farm ground with small boroughs in it. An electrician working only in Harrisburg and an electrician working only above Millersburg would barely recognise each other's week.
We work both, and we would rather say plainly which one you are in when you call. A restaurant fit out in the city and a grain dryer above Elizabethville are different jobs with different constraints, and the only thing they share is that somebody needs a straight answer about what it takes.
Food manufacturing and the window it gives you
The production around Hershey follows the same rule as every other plant we work in: the electrical work is not measured in hours of labour, it is measured in hours of production lost. That makes scheduling and preparation more important than the wiring itself.
A window holds when the work is built before it opens: conduit racks prefabricated, wire cut and labelled at both ends, gear staged inside the building rather than on a truck somewhere. What that looks like start to finish is in plant wiring during a shutdown.
Older city buildings and their services
Harrisburg and the river boroughs have a lot of stock that has been added to over many decades. The recurring problem is not the wiring so much as the record of it: a directory written in pencil, a sub panel fed from a sub panel, and nobody left who can say what each breaker feeds.
That turns every isolation into a hunt and somebody's freezer goes dark by accident. We re identify circuits as we work and leave a schedule that matches the building, for the reasons set out in how to read a panel schedule. Where the board itself is finished rather than just full, the signs of that are worth reading first.
What we are called for
The work Dauphin County asks us for most
Commercial fit outs and remodels
Offices, retail and restaurants, staged around trading hours and the inspection sequence rather than around us.
See the marketPlant and production work
Machine connections, motor circuits and drives, built beforehand so the shutdown window actually holds.
See the marketService and panel replacement
Older city services that ran out of room, including boards that are a replacement rather than a repair.
See the servicePreventive maintenance
Infrared surveys under load and the insurer ready report that comes out of them, on a yearly interval.
See the serviceFarm work in the north
Poultry, dairy and grain above Millersburg, with the same Article 547 requirements as anywhere else.
See the marketEV charging
Staff, fleet and customer parking, with the load calculation done before anybody orders equipment.
See the serviceWhat we work on
The 7 kinds of building we are inside most often across Dauphin 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.
Food manufacturing and packaging plants
Offices, retail and restaurants
Medical and institutional buildings
Warehouses and logistics facilities
Older borough buildings changing use
Poultry, dairy and grain farms in the north
Shops, garages and service bays
Working in Dauphin County
- Not for planned work, and not for anything larger. For a small fault call in the city there are electricians much closer than us, and we will say so rather than charge you for the drive.
Next county over
Worth reading
Tell us what the building has to run
Describe the job and where in Dauphin 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.