Job board · Eight numbered job-types

Eight kinds of work, in the order we get called for them.

Every invoice, every field-log entry, every quote we write starts with one of these eight job codes. New customers usually start at J-01 or J-04. The rarer ones are the more interesting ones.

A 320A residential service panel mid-installation, with neat homerun cable management and label tape ready. — A 320A meter-and-main combo on a Greensboro Bend tie-stall barn, mid-changeout. Twenty-four homerun NM-B cables landed and labeled before the breakers go in.

The eight job-types

Each job-type has its own page below. Click through for the technical detail, what's included, what's excluded, the price band, the standard timeline, and the codes/standards it has to satisfy. Jobs that span more than one type get the dominant code on the invoice and a note in the field log about the secondary ones.

J-01 / SERVICE

Farm service drops & main panels

200A and 320A residential, 400A and 600A agricultural. New meter sockets, ground-rod systems to NEC 250.

~38% of jobs→ J-02 / DAIRY

Milking parlor wiring

Article 547 compliant. Equipotential planes, GFCI to dairy code, vacuum-pump branch circuits, dump-bucket sensors.

~12% of jobs→ J-03 / SUGAR

Sugarhouse power

RO units, vacuum-tubing pumps, evaporator hood & bake-out, head-tank floats, sap-line monitoring.

~9% of jobs→ J-04 / HERITAGE

Knob-and-tube remediation

1820–1940 farmhouse rewires. Plaster-preserving fishing methods, AFCI panel changeouts, NM-B in old joists.

~18% of jobs→ J-05 / HYDRO

Microhydro & off-grid solar

100W–8kW Pelton/turgo. Off-grid PV with LFP battery banks. Genset integration. Outback & Victron firmware.

~6% of jobs→ J-06 / SURGE

Lightning protection & surge mitigation

NFPA 780 systems for barns and silos. Type-1 SPDs at the service. Bonding to gas, water, sap-line vacuum.

~5% of jobs→ J-07 / GENSET

Standby generators

Generac, Kohler, and Cummins air-cooled standby. ATS sizing for whole-farm and milking-parlor priority loads.

~7% of jobs→ J-08 / REPAIR

Service repair & troubleshooting

A breaker that won't reset, a stray-voltage complaint, a blown circuit no one wrote down. Hourly, no minimum quote.

~5% of jobs→

How the price bands work

Every job page lists a price band — typical low, typical median, typical high — based on the last four years of completed jobs in that category. The band is honest, not aspirational: it includes the awkward ones where the service drop turned out to be 40 feet farther from the road than the customer thought, and the easy ones where the panel happened to already be in the right place. Inflation adjustments are applied annually in November alongside the rate update on the rates page.

If your job is well outside the band — either much smaller or much larger — say so when you call. The two times we've gotten in trouble with a quote, both times the job had something the customer told us about and we forgot to write down.

Codes & standards every job has to satisfy

NFPA 70 (NEC), 2023 edition — the National Electrical Code, adopted by Vermont effective 1 April 2024.
NEC Article 547, agricultural buildings — applies to most J-02 and J-03 work.
NFPA 780, lightning protection — applies to J-06.
OSHA 29 CFR 1910.269 — our PPE and live-line work practices.
VT Division of Fire Safety permitting on jobs above the state's residential exemption.

References & sources

NFPA 70 (NEC), 2023 edition. nfpa.org/70.
NEC Article 547. up.codes.
NFPA 780. nfpa.org/780.
OSHA 1910.269. osha.gov.
VT Division of Fire Safety, electrical. firesafety.vermont.gov.
UVM Extension, agricultural electrical fact sheets. uvm.edu/extension.