Need a licensed commercial electrician for your business, building, or tenant space in Seattle, Shoreline, Bothell, Lynnwood, Kirkland, Bellevue, Redmond, Sammamish, or Issaquah, Washington?
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Residential and commercial, small repairs to new construction — all of it priced up front and done to code.
Old fuse boxes and crowded panels replaced with clean, labelled service that handles what your house actually draws.
125A to 200A, meter base and mast included. We coordinate the utility shutdown so you’re not without power longer than six hours.
Kitchens, basements and whole-house renovations. Knob-and-tube removed, new circuits run, everything photographed before the drywall goes up.
Level 2 home charging on a dedicated 240V circuit. Sized for your car and your panel, permitted and inspected.
Tenant improvements, new builds, lighting and service work. After-hours scheduling so your floor keeps trading.
Breakers that keep tripping, dead outlets, flickering lights. We trace the fault instead of guessing at the drywall.
Not sure which one you need? Describe what’s happening and we’ll tell you — no charge for the answer.
Your business can’t afford electrical downtime. Carroll Electric provides reliable, code-compliant commercial electrical services with minimal disruption and maximum safety.
From retail lighting and office wiring to industrial panel work, Carroll Electric handles installations, upgrades, and repairs for businesses of all sizes. We’re a family business and a small, hands-on crew, which means the person who walks your space and quotes the job is typically the same person on site doing it — not a salesperson handing you off to whoever is available. You get direct answers about scope, cost, and what the work will mean for your operating hours.
Licensed, bonded, and insured · WA License #CARROELC982BD
Call or text us at (206) 914-3243 to talk through your project.
“I highly recommend Carroll Electric. Cameron quickly responded and scheduled the same day visit while all the other electric companies were not available at 6pm. He is very knowledgeable, and he explained the cause of the issue, then he fixed all with a short time.”
Shinobu Y. ★★★★★
Carroll Electric was built around a simple belief: customers deserve honest communication, quality workmanship, and an electrician they can trust. As a family-owned company with a young, passionate team, we’re committed to making every project straightforward — from the first phone call to the final walkthrough.
We don’t believe in confusing estimates or unnecessary upselling. We believe in showing up when we say we will, keeping our work clean, and doing every installation the right way.
“We’d rather lose a job to an honest number than win one with a vague one.”
Tyler Carroll — Manager & Founding Member
Whether it’s a panel upgrade, remodel rewire, EV charger installation, commercial project, or troubleshooting a difficult issue, every job receives the same attention to detail, craftsmanship, and respect.
We’re proud to be a local family business serving our community with transparency, professionalism, and electrical work built to last.
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Slater Bradley
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Commercial electrical work covers a wider range than most business owners expect, and the situations that call for it tend to fall into a few recognizable groups.
Something has failed or is failing. Breakers tripping on equipment circuits, lights flickering or going out across a section of the space, outlets that have stopped working, a panel that’s warm or making noise, or intermittent problems nobody has been able to pin down. These are the calls where downtime is already happening or about to.
Something is changing. A new tenant moving into a space that was built for a different use, a buildout or remodel, new equipment that needs dedicated power, a kitchen or production area being added, additional workstations, or a lighting retrofit. These are planned, and the electrical usually needs to be scoped before anything else can be committed to.
Something is at its limit. A building adding EV charging, converting from gas to electric, or taking on a tenant with real electrical demand can run into the ceiling of what the existing service delivers. That’s a question worth answering before signing a lease or ordering equipment, not after.
If any of those describe your situation, an on-site assessment will tell you what the work actually involves. Sometimes the answer is smaller than expected. We’ll tell you when it is.
Photography is one of Carroll Electric’s strongest branding assets. We showcase our real electricians, real homes, real commercial projects, and the quality craftsmanship behind every installation.
The same questions come up on nearly every commercial job. Here’s how we answer them.
Can you work outside business hours? Yes. Most commercial work that interrupts operations gets scheduled around them — early mornings, evenings, or weekends. We plan the disruptive portions with you rather than around you.
Will you have to shut down my power? Some of it, for some of the work. What matters is which circuits, for how long, and when — and that’s something we scope in advance so you can plan around it rather than discover it.
Can my building’s service handle what I’m adding? That depends on the existing service and how much is already committed. We run a load calculation rather than estimating, and we’ll tell you before you order equipment.
Do you work with my general contractor or property manager? Regularly. We coordinate directly on scope and scheduling so the trades aren’t waiting on each other.
What will it cost? You receive an itemized written estimate after an on-site assessment, with labor and materials broken out separately, so you can see how the number was reached.
Same crew, same rates, same paperwork. What changes is how we schedule around you and who we send the invoice to.
Panel upgrades, EV chargers, dead outlets, breakers that keep tripping. You get a written number before anything starts, and a call before we spend more than it.
Rough-in and trim on the date we gave you. Inspections cleared without you chasing them, and a phone call the moment anything looks like it might slip.
Tenant calls handled the same day. Certificate of insurance on file, one invoice format across every unit you run, and photos of the work sent through each time.
Tenant improvements, new builds, lighting and service work. After-hours and weekend scheduling so your floor keeps trading while we’re in there.
Kitchens, additions, whole-house rewires. Clean installs, labelled circuits, and everything behind the drywall photographed before it’s closed up.
The people who just call us when something goes wrong. We keep a record of what we’ve done at your property, so we’re not starting from scratch every visit.
We’d rather be the electrician you call for the next ten years than the one who won a single job on price. If you manage more than one property, ask about an account.
Every project follows the same process, from first contact through follow-up.
It starts with an on-site assessment. We look at the existing service and panels, the available capacity, the condition of what’s already installed, the scope of what you’re adding, and the practical constraints — operating hours, tenant access, occupied areas, and anything that can’t go offline. From that assessment you receive a written, itemized estimate separating labor and materials, with the scope described in plain terms before you approve anything.
Once the work is scheduled, we arrive when we said we would and work the plan. We sequence the disruptive portions around your operating hours where the schedule allows, keep the work area contained and clean, and label panels and circuits clearly so whoever services the space next isn’t guessing. We handle permitting and inspection as part of the project.
When there’s a general contractor, property manager, or other trades involved, we coordinate directly with them so nobody’s waiting on anybody. Every project closes with a walkthrough, documentation of the completed work, permit and inspection records, and an invoice that matches the estimate.
“My wife and I are very impressed with the service from Carroll Electric. I can honestly say they are hands down the best electric company I have ever worked with. We have called them for various projects in the past and will continue to use them for anything needed in the future.”
Brandon V. ★★★★★
Carroll Electric exists to provide high-quality electrical work while creating a customer experience built on transparency, communication, reliability, and craftsmanship. These principles guide every decision, from the first phone call to the final walkthrough.
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Our rates are published on this website. You approve a written number before any work begins, and permits and parts are passed through at cost with the receipt attached.
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Calls and messages answered the same working day. If we find something unexpected behind the wall, you get a phone call before we spend another dollar of your money.
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We hold the date we gave you. Licensed, bonded and insured, permits pulled where they’re required, and we meet the inspector ourselves rather than leaving it to you.
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Labelled circuits, dressed conductors, and a panel directory you can read at 6am. We photograph what goes behind the drywall so there’s a record long after we’ve gone.
We photograph every job as we go — partly so you have a record of what’s in your walls, partly because clean work is worth showing.
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Every job gets photographed as we go. If you want to see work like yours before you commit, ask and we’ll send you the closest match we’ve done nearby.
Lighting is the most visible electrical system in a commercial space and often the one doing the most work — for how the space feels, how it photographs, how safe it is, and what it costs to run.
We handle retail lighting, office and workspace lighting, warehouse and shop fixtures, exterior and parking area lighting, and emergency and exit lighting. Retrofits are a large share of it: older fluorescent and metal halide systems replaced with LED, which reduces operating cost and maintenance and usually improves how the space actually looks. Fixture count and placement matter as much as the fixtures themselves, and we’ll tell you when the existing layout is the real problem.
Controls are part of the conversation now in a way they weren’t a decade ago. Occupancy sensing, daylight response, zoning, and scheduling are code requirements in many commercial applications rather than upgrades, and they need to be designed in rather than added on. Emergency and egress lighting has its own requirements and its own inspection, and it’s one of the more common things we find deficient in older spaces.
Commercial electrical distribution is a different animal from residential, and it’s usually where the constraints live.
We work on commercial panels and subpanels, service equipment, meter stacks serving multiple tenants, house panels for common areas, and distribution for larger equipment loads. Many commercial buildings run three-phase power, which supports larger motors and equipment more efficiently than single-phase but has its own requirements for balancing, protection, and equipment compatibility.
Capacity is the question that comes up most. A building that was adequately served twenty years ago may not be adequate for a tenant adding kitchen equipment, production machinery, server loads, or EV charging. We run the load calculation and tell you what the existing service supports, what your plans would require, and what the gap costs to close — before commitments are made rather than after.
Older commercial buildings also carry the accumulated modifications of every tenant who came before: subpanels added informally, circuits nobody can trace, directories that haven’t been accurate in decades, and equipment nobody has records for. Sorting that out is often the first real deliverable of a commercial project.
Any licensed electrician can land the job to code. What people remember is everything around it — whether you called back, showed up when you said, and left the place clean.
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Rates are on this website. You approve a written number before we start.
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Calls and messages answered same day. You always know who is coming and when.
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An owner is on site or a phone call away on every project. No account manager in between.
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Real photos of your job, not stock images of someone else’s. You see what went in.
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Itemised quotes, permits filed, inspections logged, invoices you can actually read.
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Labelled circuits, dressed conductors, a directory you can actually read at 6am.
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Thermal imaging and circuit tracing find the fault instead of guessing at the drywall.
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Marked van, branded shirts, and the same crew each visit. No mystery truck in the drive.
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If a repair will hold another five years, we’ll tell you that instead of selling a rewire.
When a space changes hands or changes use, the electrical almost always has to change with it. A retail space becoming a restaurant, an office becoming a clinic, an open floor becoming private offices — each one moves circuits, adds loads, and changes what the code requires.
We handle tenant improvement electrical from the rough-in through the final: demolition and safe removal of what isn’t staying, new circuits and panel work, lighting and controls, receptacles and data support, and equipment connections. On buildouts we work from the drawings and coordinate with the general contractor and the other trades so the schedule holds.
Timing matters more here than on most work. Electrical rough-in has to happen at a specific point in the sequence, and being late holds up everyone behind it while being early means redoing work when the layout shifts. We plan around the actual construction schedule and stay in communication when it moves — because it usually does.
If you’re evaluating a space before signing a lease, it’s worth having the electrical looked at first. What a space can support, and what it would cost to make it support what you need, is information better to have during negotiation than after.
If your project already has a set of plans, we’ll build you a custom electrical layout at no charge.
It’s a marked-up floor plan showing exactly where everything goes — light boxes, wafer lights, switches and 3-way switches, bath fans, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, outlets, countertop circuits, and the sub panel location — color-coded with a legend, dimensioned, and readable by someone who doesn’t do this for a living.
The point is communication. The most common electrical misunderstanding we see is the one where the owner pictured one thing, the designer drew another, and nobody found out until the boxes were already in the ceiling. Moving a light on paper takes a second. Moving it after rough-in takes a day and a drywall patch. Having the layout in front of everyone means the owner, the designer, and our crew are all looking at the same document and agreeing before anything gets installed.
Commercial equipment tends to need power that’s specific to it, and the failure mode is usually the same: equipment installed on whatever circuit was nearby, running fine until it doesn’t.
We install dedicated circuits and disconnects for kitchen and food service equipment, HVAC and refrigeration, production and shop machinery, compressors, medical and dental equipment, server and network racks, and point-of-sale and back-office systems. Each has its own requirements for circuit sizing, voltage, phase, protection, and disconnecting means, and manufacturers specify them for a reason.
Motor loads deserve particular attention. Compressors, large HVAC equipment, and machinery draw significantly more current starting than running, and a circuit sized only for running load will trip — reliably, and usually at the worst time. We size to the actual nameplate requirements rather than to a rule of thumb.
Where equipment is critical to operations, it’s worth talking about what happens when it loses power: how it’s protected, how quickly it can be restored, and whether backup or a transfer arrangement makes sense for your operation.
When something fails in a commercial space, the cost isn’t the repair — it’s the hours the business isn’t running. That changes how the work needs to be approached.
We diagnose commercial electrical problems systematically: intermittent breaker trips, circuits that have gone dead, equipment that won’t start or won’t stay running, flickering or failing lighting, panels showing heat or damage, and faults that previous work didn’t resolve. The goal is finding the actual cause rather than replacing components until something changes, because guessing is expensive when a business is down.
Older buildings make this harder in predictable ways — undocumented modifications, mislabeled panels, circuits that were extended by whoever was cheapest at the time, and connections that have been loosening for years. That’s often exactly why the problem is intermittent, and it’s why tracing it properly is worth the time.
If you’ve had someone out already and the problem came back, tell us what was done. Knowing what’s been ruled out is genuinely useful and keeps you from paying twice for the same diagnostic work.
Published, not quoted on the doorstep. Builders and repeat clients pay less because the work is easier to plan — you’ll see exactly which rate applies to you before we start.
Residential
Builder / Contractor
$100/hr
Repeat Client
$110/hr
First Time
$125/hr
Emergency
$125–$250/hr
Commercial
Builder / Contractor
$125/hr
Repeat Client
$150/hr
First Time
$175/hr
Emergency
$150–$300/hr
Trip Fee One low trip fee. No surprises.
Within 10 miles
$50
Within 20 miles
$75
20+ miles
$100+
Carroll Electric works with property managers, building owners, and multi-unit residential and commercial buildings across Seattle, the north end, and the Eastside. The work ranges from unit turnovers and common area lighting to service capacity questions, panel replacements, and building-wide upgrades.
What tends to matter most at this scale isn’t any single job — it’s having someone who answers, shows up, documents what was done, and doesn’t have to be re-explained the building every time. We keep records of work we’ve done on a property so the next call starts from what’s already known rather than from scratch.
Work can be phased around occupancy and tenant access, and priced per building or per unit depending on what makes sense for how you manage. For owners and managers with several older properties, we’re set up to be a consistent long-term partner rather than a vendor you have to find again each time something breaks.
A low number is easy to say. These are the commitments that come attached to it, on every service upgrade and panel swap we do.
Your power is out for a maximum of six hours on the day of the swap. We plan the shutdown around your schedule.
We meet the inspector ourselves and clear the permit within five business days of finishing.
Any additional install or relocation the upgrade makes necessary is done free of charge. Not billed as a change order.
Bring us a written quote and we will meet it at minimum. In most cases we come in 25 to 50 percent lower.
Bonus
A free small install or troubleshoot with every upgrade.
A new light fixture, dimmers, outlets, or a fault you have been meaning to chase down — while we are already on site.
Workplace and tenant EV charging has moved from an amenity to something closer to an expectation, particularly on the Eastside, and it’s one of the more common commercial requests we get.
Commercial charging involves more than the chargers. Longer runs across parking areas, multiple stations on a shared feeder with load management so the building’s service isn’t sized for a peak that rarely happens, and questions about metering and how charging gets billed back to tenants or employees — which affects the electrical design and is better resolved early.
The practical advice is to plan for more than you’re installing. Running capacity and conduit for future stations during the first installation costs far less than trenching the same parking lot twice, and demand in most buildings goes one direction. We’ll scope what you need now and what it would take to expand, so the decision is yours to make with real numbers.
We’d rather explain pricing than have you ask for it. Commercial electrical costs come down to a few specific variables: the scope of the work, the condition and capacity of the existing system, how much of the work has to happen outside normal hours, the accessibility of the areas involved, whether panel or service work is required, and what the permitting and inspection process involves for your jurisdiction and occupancy type.
Your estimate breaks those out in plain terms, with labor and materials listed separately, so you can see how the number was reached. When service or panel work is part of the scope, it’s priced as its own line rather than folded in. Nothing appears on the final invoice that wasn’t in the estimate.
Most electricians won’t give you a number until someone is standing in your space, and there’s a reason for that — an honest price depends on what’s actually there. But that’s not much help when you’re trying to budget. So here are real quotes from recent work instead.
Look at what’s in them. Rough-in and trim-stage work priced separately, so you can see the two halves of the job. Every item listed individually, so if you add something, remove something, or change your mind, the number moves by a specific amount instead of becoming a conversation. And where existing circuits are safe and serviceable, they’re listed by name — the work we’re not charging you to redo, written down where you can check it.
That’s what a calculated price looks like. Nothing padded to cover a worst case, nothing priced low to get in the door. When you can see how a number was built, you can tell whether it’s fair.
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Your project will differ, and the assessment is what produces an accurate number — but this is how we build one.
Call or text us at (206) 914-3243 to talk through your electrical service.
Washington requires a permit and an inspection for essentially all new and altered electrical work, and commercial work is inspected closely — occupancy type, egress and emergency lighting, and equipment requirements all get scrutiny that residential work doesn’t. Which office issues the permit depends on where the property is. Seattle runs its own electrical permitting and inspection program through the Department of Construction and Inspections, and the work is held to the Seattle Electrical Code — the city’s own amended edition of the National Electrical Code. Outside cities that operate their own programs, permitting and inspection are handled by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. We work in both systems regularly and pull the permit from whichever authority governs your address.
Handling the permit isn’t a convenience we offer — it’s the law. When you hire an electrical contractor in Washington, that contractor is required to purchase the permit for the work they perform on the property.
On commercial property the permit record carries additional weight. Unpermitted electrical work can affect insurance claims, complicate a sale or refinance, create problems at lease renewal or during a tenant’s own permitting, and surface during a fire marshal or occupancy inspection. For a business, the exposure is larger than the permit ever costs.
We prepare the work for inspection, coordinate with the inspector, and hand you the records at the end.
Carroll Electric is a licensed, bonded, and insured electrical contractor in Washington State, license #CARROELC982BD.
Call or text us at (206) 914-3243 to talk through your electrical service.
Retail businesses, restaurants, and storefronts. Offices, clinics, and professional spaces. Warehouses, shops, and light industrial facilities. Property managers and building owners. General contractors and developers running tenant improvements and buildouts. Businesses moving into a new space or changing how an existing one is used. Buildings adding EV charging or converting to electric equipment. And any business dealing with breaker trips, failing lighting, or electrical problems that previous work didn’t solve.
Carroll Electric is a licensed, bonded, and insured electrical contractor serving Seattle, the north end, and the Eastside. We’re a small, hands-on family crew, and the person who walks your space is typically the person on site doing the work — which means fewer people between you and the answer when something needs deciding. You receive an itemized estimate before anything begins, we schedule disruptive work around your operating hours where we can, we handle the permit and the inspection, we install to code the first time, and we label and document what we did so the next person isn’t guessing. Our focus is on giving you the information to make a confident decision — not on selling you more than you need.
Call or text us at (206) 914-3243 to talk through your electrical service.
“Highly recommend Carroll Electric! Cameron provided outstanding service from start to finish. His pricing was incredibly reasonable, and he managed the entire project seamlessly — including coordinating directly with the inspector to ensure everything went smoothly. The work was completed exactly on time, and the quality is top-notch.”
Niket A. ★★★★★
And surrounding areas throughout King and south Snohomish Counties.
Whether it’s a failed meter base or a full electrical service upgrade with utility coordination, Carroll Electric has the licensing and experience to complete the work correctly. Contact us to schedule an assessment.
See real project examples and our straightforward hourly rates.
King County:
Seattle (98115, 98082, 98125, 98165, 98105, 98175, 98195, 98112, 98103, 98113, 98122, 98109, 98117, 98127, 98139, 98141, 98194, 98107, 98101, 98119, 98111, 98170, 98181, 98185, 98190, 98191, 98164, 98161, 98154, 98104, 98121, 98174, 98160, 98199, 98134, 98118, 98108, 98116, 98106, 98126, 98136, 98178, 98168, 98131, 98199, 98141, 98181, 98170, 98145, 98138, 98129, 98124
Bellevue (98004, 98005, 98009, 98015, 98007, 98008, 98006), Bothell (98034, 98011, 98041, 98021, 98012), Mercer Island (98040, 98118), Newcastle (98056, 98059), Issaquah (98029, 98027, 98075), Kenmore (98028, 98125, 98155), Kirkland (98034, 98033, 98133, 98102, 98114, 98124, 98129, 98138, 98145, 98144, 98083), Lake Forest Park (98155), Medina (98039, 98039), Redmond (98052, 98073, 98053, 98008, 98033), Renton (98056, 98059, 98055, 98057, 98058, 98178), Richmond Beach (98177), Sammamish (98074, 98075, 98008, 98029), Shoreline (98155, 98133, 98177, 98160), Woodinville (98072, 98077)
Snohomish County:
Bothell (98034, 98011, 98041, 98021, 98012), Edmonds (98020, 98006, 98026), Everett (98208, 98204, 98208, 98203, 98213, 98201, 98207, 98275, 98203, 98290, 98206, 98272), Lynnwood (98036, 98046, 98037, 98087, 98037), Mill Creek (98012, 98082), Mountlake Terrace (98043, 98043), Mukilteo (98275), Snohomish (98296, 98291, 98290)
Seattle Neighborhoods:
North Seattle: Ballard (98107, 98117), Broadview (98177. 98133), Bitter Lake (98133), Blue Ridge (98177, 98133), Bryant (98223), Crown Hill (98117), Fremont (98103, 98107), Green Lake (98103, 98115), Greenwood (98103, 98117, 98133), Hawthorne Hills (98105, 98115), Lake Union (98109), Laurelhurst (98105), North Beach (98117), North College Park (98103), Northgate (98125, 98133), Northlake (98103), Phinney Ridge (98103, 98107, 98117), Ravenna (98105, 98115), Roosevelt (98115), Sand Point (98115, 98105), University District (98105, 98115, 98195), University Village (98105), Wallingford (98103), Wedgwood (98115), Windermere (98105, 98115), View Ridge (98115)
Northgate: Haller Lake (98133, 98125), Lake City (98125, 98115), Maple Leaf (98115), Pinehurst (98125)
Lake City: Cedar Park (98125), Matthews Beach (98115, 98125), Meadowbrook (98125m 98115, 98155), Olympic Hills (98125), Victory Heights (98125, 98115)
Ballard: Adams (98107), Loyal Heights (98117), Sunset Hill (98117, 98107), West Woodland (98107), Whittier Heights (98117)
Central Seattle: Cascade (98109), Capitol Hill (98102, 98112, 98122), Eastlake (98102), Interbay (98119, 98199), Lake Union (98109, 98102, 98103), Queen Anne (98109, 98119), Westlake (98109)
Magnolia: Briarcliff (98199), Lawton Park (98199), Southeast Magnolia (98199)
Capitol Hill: Broadmoor (98112), Broadway (98122, 98102), Interlaken (98112), Madison Park (98112), Madison Valley (98112, 98122), Montlake (98112), Pike-Pine Corridor (98122, 98101), Portage Bay (98102, 98105), Roanoke (98102, 98112), Renton Hill (98057), Stevens (98112)
Central Seattle: Atlantic (98144, 98134), Central Area (98122, 98144), Central District (98122, 98144), Cherry Hill (98122), Denny-Blaine (98112), Downtown (98101, 98104, 98113, 98121, 98141, 98154, 98161, 98165, 98170, 98174, 98175, 98181, 98185, 98190, 98191, 98194), , Judkins Park (98144, 98122), Leschi (98122, 98144), Madrona (98122), Mann (98122), Minor (98122, 98144), Squire Park (98122, 98144), Washington Park (98112)
Downtown Seattle: Belltown (98121, 98101, 98109), Central Business District (98101, 98104, 98164, 98121, 98154), Central Waterfront (98101, 98104, 98121, 98134), Chinatown-International District (98104), Denny Triangle (98101), First Hill (98104, 98122, 98101), Pike-Market (98101), Pioneer Square (98104, 98134), West Edge (98101), Yesler Terrace (98104, 98122)
South End: Atlantic City Beach (98118), Brighton (98118), Beacon Hill (98108, 9811, 98144), Columbia City (98118, 98108), Dunlap (98118), Georgetown (98108), Harbor Island (98134), Hillman City (98118), Holly Park (98118), Industrial District (98134, 98108), Lakerridge (98178), Lakewood (98144), Mount Baker (98144), New Holly (98118, 98108), Othello (99344, 99327, 99332), Rainier Beach (98118, 98178), Rainier Valley (98118), Rainier View (98178), Seward Park (98118), SoDo (98134), South Park (98108), Van Asselt (98108)
West Seattle: Admiral District (98116, 98126), Alaska Junction (98116, 98126, 98136), Alki Point (98116), Arbor Heights (98146, 98126, 98136), Delridge (98106, 98126), Fairmount Park (9811, 98126, 98136), Fauntleroy (98136, 98116, 98126), Gatewood (98136), Genesee (98116, 98126), Mee-Kwa-Mooks (98116), North Admiral (98116), North Delridge (98106. 98126), Seaview (98136), West Seattle Junction (98116)
Delridge: High Point (98126, 98106), Highland Park (98106, 98108), Riverview (98106), Roxhill (98126, 98106), South Delridge (98126, 98106)
Most electricians won’t give you a number until someone is standing in your space, and there’s a reason for that — an honest price depends on what’s actually there. But that’s not much help when you’re trying to budget. So here are real quotes from recent work instead.
Look at what’s in them. Rough-in and trim-stage work priced separately, so you can see the two halves of the job. Every item listed individually, so if you add something, remove something, or change your mind, the number moves by a specific amount instead of becoming a conversation. And where existing circuits are safe and serviceable, they’re listed by name — the work we’re not charging you to redo, written down where you can check it.
That’s what a calculated price looks like. Nothing padded to cover a worst case, nothing priced low to get in the door. When you can see how a number was built, you can tell whether it’s fair.
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Your project will differ, and the assessment is what produces an accurate number — but this is how we build one.
Cost depends on the scope, the condition and capacity of the existing system, how much of the work has to happen outside business hours, access to the areas involved, and whether panel or service work is required. We provide an itemized written estimate after an on-site assessment, with labor and materials broken out separately, and we publish example quotes above so you can see how we build a number. Call or text (206) 914-3243 to schedule an assessment.
Yes. Carroll Electric is a licensed, bonded, and insured electrical contractor in Washington State, license #CARROELC982BD. You can verify any Washington contractor’s license, bond, and insurance status through the Department of Labor & Industries.
Yes, for any project that already has an existing set of plans. We mark up your floor plan with fixture, device, and circuit locations so the owner, the designer, and our crew are working from the same document before anything gets installed. There’s no charge and no obligation attached to it.
Yes. Most commercial work that would interrupt operations gets scheduled around them. We plan the disruptive portions with you during the assessment, so the schedule works for your business rather than against it.
Yes. Commercial electrical work requires a permit and inspection. Inside Seattle, the permit comes from the city’s Department of Construction and Inspections; in jurisdictions without their own program, it comes from the Department of Labor & Industries. Carroll Electric pulls the permit and coordinates the inspection as part of the project, which is what state law requires of the contractor doing the work.
Yes. Three-phase distribution is common in commercial buildings and supports larger motors and equipment more efficiently than single-phase. We work on three-phase panels, distribution, and equipment connections.
That depends on the existing service and how much capacity is already committed. We run a load calculation rather than estimating. It’s worth answering before you sign a lease, order equipment, or commit to a tenant’s requirements — finding out afterward is considerably more expensive.
Yes, from rough-in through final. We work from the drawings and coordinate with the general contractor and other trades on scheduling, and we stay in communication when the construction schedule shifts.
Yes. Retrofitting older fluorescent and metal halide systems to LED is common work, and it usually improves operating cost, maintenance, and how the space looks. We’ll also tell you when the existing fixture layout is the real problem rather than the fixtures.
Some work requires it, but usually only to specific circuits and often only briefly. What matters is which circuits, for how long, and when — we scope that in advance so you can plan around it rather than find out during.
Yes. We work with property managers and building owners across multiple properties, keep records of what’s been done at each, and can phase work around occupancy and tenant access.
Yes. Commercial charging involves the building’s capacity, the runs across parking areas, and often load management for multiple stations on a shared feeder. We’ll scope what you need now and what expansion would take, since running capacity for future stations during the first installation costs far less than doing the work twice.
Carroll Electric provides electrical service and meter upgrades to homeowners, contractors, and businesses throughout Seattle, Shoreline, Bothell, Lynnwood, Kirkland, Bellevue, Redmond, Sammamish, Issaquah, and surrounding communities across King and south Snohomish Counties.
Our approach to every project is the same: an honest scope, work sized and installed to code, scheduled around your operations where we can, labeled and documented for whoever comes next. We’re a small family crew, so you’re working with the people doing the work rather than being handed between a salesperson, a scheduler, and whoever is available. That’s what stands behind two brothers, one mission — do the job right, at the right price.
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