Camp & Seasonal Home Electrical.

Openings and closings, done like we own the place

Spring: energize safely, test every GFCI, check what the mice engineered over the winter, verify the well pump and water heater, and walk the exterior for what snow load moved. Fall: shut down in the right order, protect what stays on, and leave heat-tape and sump circuits configured for the months nobody visits.

Modernizing without modernizing the soul

Camps deserve grounded, safe, documented wiring that doesn’t look like a subdivision moved in. We fish walls instead of opening them, keep the good patina, and put the new capacity where it counts — kitchen, dock, backup power — with everything labeled for the next generation.

The standing-appointment model

Most of our camp clients are on the annual list: a spring opening and fall closing on a standing schedule, performed whether or not anyone's at the lake yet. Openings catch winter damage before it becomes July emergency; closings put the building to bed properly — circuits staged, GFCIs tested, everything unpluggable unplugged, winter loads configured and monitored. After each visit, a short written report: what we checked, what we found, what's worth watching.

Some of these camps we've tended longer than their current owners have owned them. That continuity is quietly valuable — we know which panel has the quirky breaker, which line freezes first, which boathouse floods in a wet spring. Institutional memory is a camp service you can't buy retroactively.

Upgrading a camp without losing the camp

Camps deserve modern safety without suburban aesthetics, and threading that needle is a specialty we're genuinely proud of. Surface-mounted wireways where the building's bones should stay visible, fished cable where walls allow, period-sympathetic fixtures, panels relocated out of damp crawlspaces into sensible corners — grounded, protected, documented, and still unmistakably a camp.

The upgrade conversations usually start small — one more kitchen circuit, dock power that works — and grow into the systems that change ownership entirely: monitoring, backup power, an EV circuit for the long drive up. We're happy to do it one summer at a time; camps are patient buildings, and we plan in decades anyway.