Rough-in through final inspection

On a new build, the electrician you want is the one your schedule never has to think about. Framing wraps, rough-in starts on the day it was promised, the cover inspection passes, and insulation is never standing around waiting. That reliability is the actual product; the wire is just how it ships.

The full electrical scope

1. Temporary power for the build, set early so every trade after us has it.
2. Service and panel: meter base, mast or lateral, panel sized from the plan's loads with room to grow.
3. Rough-in: boxes, home runs, and circuits through the framing, walked against the plan before the cover inspection.
4. Trim-out after finishes: devices, fixtures, appliance connections, panel labelling.
5. Final inspection, scheduled and met, with corrections handled before they touch your closing date.

Decisions worth making on paper

The plan review is where a build gets its value: EV-ready circuits while the wall is studs, floor outlets located before the slab pour, exterior and low-voltage conduit runs stubbed where they will someday be wanted. Washington's energy code keeps adding electrification requirements to new dwellings, and we flag what applies to your jurisdiction before it becomes a correction. Our EV-ready construction guide covers that piece in detail.

How we bid

You get a bid built from your drawings, with the assumptions written down: fixture allowances stated, exclusions named, and anything on the plans that looks like a capacity problem raised before you compare numbers. When a competing bid comes in oddly low, the difference is usually hiding in one of those lines, and we would rather point at it than win on ambiguity. The bid package checklist shows what we like to see in an invitation to bid.

One point of contact who answers

You coordinate with the electrician running the job, not a dispatcher. Field questions get answered from the site, inspection results get reported the day they happen, and schedule risk gets flagged as soon as it is real. Builders live and die by that information moving fast; so do we.

Getting comparable electrical bids

Ask every sub who prices the drawings

• Which assumptions and exclusions are written into this number?
• How are fixture and device allowances stated, and at what grade?
• Who books the cover and final inspections, and how fast do results reach me?
• Which energy-code and EV-ready items does this jurisdiction require, and where do they sit in the bid?

Reading the low number

When one bid lands well under the rest, the difference is rarely generosity. It hides in an allowance set below what the plans imply, a code-required item left for someone else to discover, or a schedule commitment that was never made. Ambiguity in a bid does not disappear; it collects, and it invoices you at closing.

What to keep when the job closes out

The labelled panel schedule, the inspection records, and a note of every empty conduit stubbed for the future are the building's memory; hand them to whoever occupies it. Our guides on preparing for an electrician's visit and comparing estimates on more than the total were written for homeowners, and the discipline in them transfers directly to a bid package.

Send plans and your build schedule through Request an Estimate, or call (206) 718-3047 to talk through the project first. The builders and GCs page covers how we work across a season of jobs.