LITTLE SPARKIE ELECTRIC
Little Sparkie Electric includes myself, Catherine Nazarene, who owns and manages the business and works the tools, my husband John, and our associate Eric Fries.
I got into electrical work because of my life-long love of things electrical. Even as a child, I loved light bulbs, and I would buy lamp holders (fixtures or sockets), plugs, and wire, and put them together from scratch. Substations were another particular interest of mine, and they still fascinate me today.
EXPERIENCE:
The three of us have a combined total of approximately 75 years of varied commercial, industrial, residential, and service experience. Our work has given us a variety of challenges, for example:
- Designing and installing a complete branch circuit in an industrial facility, to supply an overhead crane. We also wired the crane once it was set in place.
- Replacing defective emergency lights and installing new ones (over two dozen in all!) in a factory.
- Installing, servicing, and repairing standby generators, in all weather conditions.
- Designing and installing the wiring, lights, and receptacles for various additions, basements, and remodeling projects of all sizes and complexities.
- Installing ceiling fans, switches, receptacles, light fixtures of all kinds, chandeliers, security lights, doorbells, etc.
- Modernizing wiring in old buildings and homes.
- Pulling 175' of heavy wiring through buried conduit on a farm, then installing a subpanel for a greenhouse that had not yet been built...and we did the whole job in the rain!
- One heavy-up we did had one of us atop an extension ladder in 50-mph winds, carrying a heavy coil of cable, literally face-to-face with uninsulated power lines, strapping the cable singlehandedly to the side of a brick building. That was one hair-raising experience!
- Diagnosing and repairing all kinds of electrical problems...from the minor (a worn-out GFCI that simply needed replacing) to the extremely hazardous (a power meter socket that almost caught the property on fire! But we got there first).
Images from recent jobs,, L to R:
Disconnect for outbuilding, Main panel from recent upgrade, Having fun in the rain!, Getting up in the world!
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Recent trade show appearance in Mount Airy
