Working from Blueprints

What do you look for when you want an electrical company to come in and do renovations or new construction wiring?

Well, you look for them to have the right acumen and experience, and be skilled in the kinds of building that are required. For new construction, that often means working from paper blueprints and documents.

Now, of course, experienced people know that what’s on paper is different from what gets installed in the real world. Despite our best efforts to engineer everything down to the last detail, there are often gaps and loopholes or small differences between what someone has designed, and what gets physically built into a home or other building.

Here are some aspects of working from paper in designing new construction electrical wiring. We excel in getting the big jobs done for those who need to outfit a building with the right safe electrical wiring for functionality and convenience.

GFCI outlets are a modern kind of electrical wiring structure, but you have to think about how they’re going to be used. Putting GFCI outlets in certain areas means people will be consistently throwing circuits and having to reset the outlet.

So that’s something to think about when you look at paper plans. There are also other considerations for code that have to be applied. So sometimes, a blueprint ends up being just a “rough draft” in terms of some particular detail or another. In other words, when a professional catches something that is not feasible, that’s an added part of getting safe and effective solutions in place.

How is the home or commercial building generator going to work?

It’s easy to say ‘we need a generator for backup power’ and put that into a document. It’s another thing to actually look at the logistics of where the generator and its infrastructure will be placed, how it will be fed power, and how it will be attached to the building electrical infrastructure. So we make that a part of our professional analysis as well.

This is a big one – engineers don’t often account for the need for skilled trades professionals to work next to one another.

That’s why a lot of new construction is so precisely staged. Let’s say you have the drywall peoplecoming in to work on the framing at the same time as the electricians. It’s already tight in some areas of the building, and poor coordination can make this type of thing logistically unfeasible!

So that’s another thing that skilled electricians have to work with on the ground. Something that might not be in a document.

Then you have to plan for adequate service panel design, to accommodate all of the wiring outlets and endpoints.

Otherwise, what you have is kind of a piecemeal design, where you’re constantly working to fix problems with the service box!

Call Grener Electric for excellent electrical work around the St, Augustine area.