Electricians in Tempe

For property owners

The landlord side of the work

Most electrical sites talk only to homeowners. If you own or manage rentals here, this is the part that matters.

• Turn work on a schedule. Tell us the date the unit has to be ready and we'll tell you honestly whether we can hit it.
• Written condition reports. What's unsafe, what's out of code, what's fine, and what each item costs — useful for budgeting across a portfolio and for documenting what you knew and when.
• Multi-unit pricing. Doing four units in one building costs less per unit than four separate calls.
• Code corrections. If you're holding a notice from the city or a letter from an insurer, the job is: fix what's listed, get it re-inspected, close it out.
• Tenant safety items. GFCI and AFCI protection, smoke and CO, grounding, panel labeling — the things that show up in a complaint or a claim.

Also common

Aluminum branch wiring and undersized services

Aluminum branch-circuit wiring is common in the late-60s and 70s builds around here, and insurers ask about it. The connection is the failure point, not the wire in the wall, and pigtailing with standard wire nuts is not an approved repair — the full explanation is on the Glendale page. Insurers ask about it, which matters more to a landlord than to an owner-occupier.

And capacity: units that have picked up window units, added appliances and now car chargers on a service that was sized for none of it.

Permits

Permits and inspection

Permit gets pulled before the work starts and we're on site for the inspection. You don't file anything and you don't take a day off to let anyone in.

Utility

Utility coordination

Which utility serves a given address here isn't obvious from the city name — the territory is interleaved. We identify it, file the cut-in, coordinate the disconnect and reconnect, and schedule the work around when power can actually come down.

Arizona conditions

What the desert does to electrical work

• Monsoon surge. Summer storms put transients on the line every year. A panel-mounted SPD protects what you can't unplug — the AC, the furnace board, the range, the well pump.
• Condenser circuits. AC equipment here runs harder and longer than almost anywhere. Disconnect, whip and circuit get sized and inspected on that basis.

Coverage and credentials

Who we are and where we work

B and D Electric LLC is based in Arcadia and works a 30-mile radius from central Phoenix — which covers essentially the whole Valley. Arizona ROC 361086, bonded through RLI Surety, $1M/$2M general liability. Residential and commercial, direct to owners and as a sub to general contractors.