Electrical contractor software for service upgrades, EV chargers and tenant improvements, shown on a fictional electrical company

Open the demo and you are inside Sorrelspark Electric, a fictional electrical company running the real product: click anything, nothing changes.

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What works today for an electrical company, and what is not available yet

The demo's welcome card says the same. The names, people, jobs and prices in this demo are illustrative.

The electrical jobs in the demo

Each with what its estimate covers and how it is billed:

• Dunleavy 200 A service upgrade — 200 A service upgrade: panel, meter base, mast and grounding (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Load calculation notes on file: 100 A service with a new heat pump and an electric range; the customer chose the 200 A upgrade. Utility work order and meter number are in the daily logs..
  Schedule: Electrical permit → Utility disconnect and reconnect booked → Service change: meter base, mast and new 200 A panel → Service release inspection and utility reconnect.
  Daily log: “The utility pulled the meter at 8:10. Set the new meter base and mast, landed the new 200 A panel, drove two ground rods and bonded the water and gas lines. Customer outage notice was given the week before.”
• Osei Level 2 EV charger install — Level 2 EV charger on a new 60 A circuit (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Electrical permit → Mount the charger and run the circuit → Final electrical inspection.
  Daily log: “Mounted the charger in the garage, ran the circuit in conduit along the wall, set the breaker and torqued the terminations. Charged the customer's car for twenty minutes before we left.”
• Ploverhythe Ridge Lot 22 rough-in and trim — Plan B, two-story: temp, rough-in, trim and final (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Builder PO FR-22-ELEC, Plan B. Draws: temp, rough-in, then trim and final. A conditional progress lien waiver goes with each draw on the builder's own form, and an unconditional one once the draw is paid..
• Tansywold Family Medicine suite tenant improvement — Medical office TI: lighting, power and a new 225 A panelboard (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Fixed-price subcontract with Elkmere Construction Group. Pay applications follow the GC's schedule of values, less retainage, with a conditional progress waiver each time. T&M tickets are signed by the GC's superintendent and priced as change orders..
  Schedule: Commercial electrical permit → Submittals: panelboard, fixtures and devices → Wall rough-in, exam rooms and nurse station → Above-ceiling rough-in → Above-ceiling inspection → Set the panelboard and pull feeders → Trim: fixtures, devices and exit lights → Testing, labels and typed panel schedules → Final electrical inspection.
  Daily log: “Mobilized: lift delivered, walked the exam rooms and the nurse station with the GC's superintendent and marked the box locations.”
• Abernathy panel replacement and whole-home surge protection — Replace the old panel with a 200 A panel; whole-home surge protector (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: 1970s panel with double-tapped breakers; load calculation notes on file. The utility pulls the meter on panel day, so the outage notice goes to the customer once the date is set..
  Schedule: Electrical permit → Panel replacement day (power off).
• Kwiatek dead kitchen circuits — Troubleshoot dead kitchen circuits; replace a failed GFCI (Time & Materials)
  Schedule: Dead kitchen circuits service call.
  Daily log: “Two kitchen counter circuits dead. Found a failed GFCI at the island feeding the counter receptacles, and one back-stabbed receptacle with a burned contact. Replaced the GFCI and two receptacles, pigtailed the rest and tested every counter receptacle with the customer.”

Walk through one electrical job: Ploverhythe Ridge Lot 22 rough-in and trim

Its schedule, in order:

1. Temporary power pole set
2. Temp service inspection
3. Trench for the underground service lateral
4. Rough-in wiring, Plan B
5. Rough electrical inspection
6. Insulation and drywall by others
7. Trim: devices, fixtures and panel make-up
8. Final electrical inspection and permanent meter

Change orders on this job: “Buyer option: EV-ready garage circuit”; “Two added soffit receptacles (extra-work ticket)”.

Purchase orders on this job: “Rough-in wire, boxes and breakers, Lot 22”.

To-dos on this job: “Meet the inspector at Lot 22 for the rough inspection”.

From its daily log:

• Set the temporary power pole at the front of Lot 22 and called in the temp inspection. Weather: Cool morning.
• Started rough-in: panel location set in the garage, home runs pulled, boxes set at the builder's heights. Weather: Clear and cold.
• Second floor roughed in. The plumber's vent is in the way of the hall light; moved the box with the builder's superintendent. Weather: Light snow.
• Rough-in finished and self-checked: nail plates on, cables supported, home runs labeled, smoke and CO alarm boxes where the plan shows them. Rough inspection booked for tomorrow at 9:00. Weather: Sunny.

An electrical proposal in the demo: Level 2 EV charger with load management

Sorrelspark Electric sent it to a lead. The scope reads:

Install a hardwired Level 2 charger in the garage on a new circuit in conduit, add a load management device so the charger shares the existing service, pull the electrical permit and meet the inspector for the final.

The notes on that lead:

• Bought an EV; the 100 A panel has no room for a 60 A circuit
• Load calculation notes: the existing service is close to its limit; offered a load management device instead of a service upgrade
• Sent three options: charger only, with load management, or with a 200 A upgrade

Other electrical leads in the demo

• Taproom lighting retrofit and new equipment circuits: Walked the taproom and brewhouse; wants LED fixtures and four new circuits for the canning line
• Breaker keeps tripping, service call
• Parking lot pole lights and emergency lighting checks: The board wants the dark pole lights fixed and a quote for regular emergency lighting checks at the clubhouse

What goes on an electrical estimate in the demo

From Sorrelspark Electric's price list, without the prices:

• 200 A main breaker panel, 40 spaces
• 200 A meter base and service mast kit
• Ground rods, clamps and electrode conductor
• Whole-home surge protector
• Dual-function AFCI/GFCI breaker
• Double-pole breaker
• 225 A three-phase panelboard, 42 circuits
• Level 2 EV charger, hardwired, 48 A
• EV circuit cable in conduit, per foot
• 12/2 NM cable, 250 ft box
• 12/2 MC cable, per foot
• Device box, new work
• Tamper-resistant duplex receptacle
• GFCI receptacle
• Single-pole switch
• Smoke/CO alarm, hardwired, interconnected
• LED recessed light, 6 inch
• 2x4 LED troffer
• Emergency light and exit sign combo
• Temporary power pole
• Rough-in labor, per hour
• Trim labor, per hour
• Service labor, per hour
• Diagnostic and trip charge
• Electrical permit

Electrical cost codes in the demo

Sorrelspark Electric's own cost codes:

• Permits & inspection fees
• Temporary power
• Service, metering & grounding
• Underground & site (trench, conduit, pole bases)
• Distribution (panels, switchgear, transformers, feeders)
• Branch rough-in
• Devices & trim
• Lighting fixtures
• Lighting controls
• Low voltage & data
• Fire alarm (if self-performed)
• Generators & transfer equipment
• EV charging
• Service & repair labor
• Troubleshooting & diagnostic
• Testing & commissioning
• Equipment rental (lifts, trenchers)
• Supervision & project management
• Closeout, as-builts & directories
• Warranty work
• Small tools & consumables
• Contingency

Questions about SelfConstruct for electrical work

Is there an electrical version of SelfConstruct?

Not as a separate product. Sorrelspark Electric opens with the business type “Electrical”, so its menus are set for that trade. In a customer's company today, the menus are the same whatever the trade.

Can an electrical job be fixed price or time and materials?

Both are in the demo: Sorrelspark Electric's “Dunleavy 200 A service upgrade” is a fixed-price job, and “Kwiatek dead kitchen circuits” is billed time and materials.

Does SelfConstruct have “A pricebook with margin floors, service agreements and truck stock” for electrical companies yet?

Not yet. It is on the list the demo's welcome card shows under “Not available yet for your trade”.

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