Your Local Electrician
in Hazel Dell, WA

Most of Hazel Dell went up between the 1950s and the 1990s, and the panels show their age: 60- to 100-amp services, fuse boxes, and Federal Pacific and Zinsco panels that should come out regardless of load. Even the newer homes can have panels packed so full that there's nowhere to add a circuit.

In one Hazel Dell home we replaced a packed original panel in a single day, re-landed every branch circuit in a new load center, rewrote the directory so it actually matches the house, and added energy monitoring on the wall below so the owner can see what's drawing power.

Hazel Dell is unincorporated Clark County, so permits go through Washington L&I, not the City of Vancouver. We file the right one and coordinate the service work with Clark Public Utilities.

Hazel Dell lots are bigger than most of Vancouver, and some owners use the room. For a new 1,062-square-foot shop building in Hazel Dell we did the full rough-in and final trim: 14 high bay lights over the shop bay, a sauna circuit, a mini split circuit, a Panasonic WhisperFan, and heat and smoke detection tied back into the existing house.

A building like that needs its feeder sized for everything at once, plus whatever comes next. We plan that with you before the trench is dug.

Plenty of mid-century bedrooms in Hazel Dell were built with a single switched outlet and no ceiling light at all. In one Hazel Dell home we brought three bedrooms and the upstairs hallway up to date with four LED downlights and a dimmer in each room, swapped, added and moved outlets, and sorted out the panel for the altered circuits.

Canless LED downlights are thin enough to fit under most joists without attic access, which keeps the drywall patching small.

The commercial strip along Highway 99 through Hazel Dell is full of older buildings that keep changing tenants. We handle tenant improvements, security and parking lot lighting, and service work for the businesses and property managers along it, permitted through L&I.