Trade library · Service and build
Electrical
What the platform does for an electrical contractor: it runs both the service call and the permitted upgrade, with the load calc and inspection points on the record.
What it does for you
- Takes a service call through safety triage, make-it-safe, the circuit trace, and the repair, with documentation at the end.
- Runs a service or panel upgrade through the load calculation, the permit, the changeout, and the inspection.
- Keeps the faults a tech names out loud on the record so the history reads like the trade talks.
- Holds thermal-survey and panel-schedule notes on planned maintenance visits.
What she already knows
She can cite your code, and she knows where to stop.
Annabelle carries verified Electrical code facts and the source for each one, so she speaks credibly to a customer instead of guessing. She is also told, in the same breath, what she may never do with them.
Governing code: National Electrical Code (adopted through the Florida Building Code); Florida Statutes Ch. 489 licensing.
- AFCI and GFCI protection are required on the branch circuits and locations the NEC specifies (bedrooms/living areas; within 6 ft of sinks, outdoors, garages, bathrooms).
- Whole-house surge protection (a Type 1 or Type 2 SPD) is required on new and upgraded services (2020 NEC onward).
- A service/panel upgrade needs a permit and coordination with the utility for the disconnect and reconnect.
Source: NFPA 70 (NEC) 2020 as adopted by FBC 8th Ed. Ch. 27 sec. 2701.1; Fla. Stat. Ch. 489. Electrical contractors are licensed under Ch. 489 PART II (489.505 et seq.) with its own board, and their advertising requirement is 489.521(7)(b), not 489.119(5)(b).
And the line she will not cross. She states the governing code and the standard. She will not give you a permit filing deadline or a county-specific requirement as settled fact, because those vary by jurisdiction and a wrong one costs a contractor real money. Her answer is that the building department and the licensed contractor confirm the specifics, which is both the truthful answer and the one that sounds like someone who has done this before.
Your Command Center, in your words
Electrical has its own configuration.
Stinger is one system, not a different product per trade. What changes is the configuration it runs on: the words on the screen, the columns on the board, the stages a job moves through, and the rules that decide what comes first. This is the Electrical configuration, as it ships.
The words on the screen
- A piece of work is called
- Service call
- An incoming call is called
- Dispatch request
- The board is called
- Dispatch board
Job types: Service call, Panel upgrade, Wiring, Inspection.
The columns on your board
- Triage
- Dispatch
- In progress
- Inspection
- Closed
An incoming caller is a homeowner - service line.
The stages a job moves through
- Captured
- Qualified
- Quoted
- Approved
- Scheduled
- Inspected
- Paid
The rules that decide what comes first
- Permit pulled before any panel work
- Licensed electrician required on every call
- After-hours emergency rate applies past 6pm
The price list it starts with
- Service call
- $95
- Panel upgrade
- Estimate
- Outlet install
- $180
- Inspection
- $150
These are example figures, not our prices. They are what the configuration ships with so the screens are not empty on day one. You set your own.
Questions she is set up to answer
- Do you pull permits?
- What's included in a safety inspection?
- Is emergency service available?
Vocabulary is service call, panel, and permit; a licensed electrician is on every call.
How you get it: tell us your trade and we set the configuration up with you during onboarding. See every trade's setup questions side by side.
How it differs
Config-backed. Electrical is licensed under Part II of Chapter 489 through its own board, so the classes here differ from the construction trades. All classes shown are graded standard with citations.
Florida licensing classes
Certified electrical contractor
Holds a certificate of competency from the department; the license is portable statewide.
Fla. Stat. 489.505(8)
Registered electrical contractor
Registered with the department having met the competency requirements in the local jurisdiction.
Fla. Stat. 489.505(16)
Specialty contractor
Electrical or alarm contracting within a limited segment of the trade.
Fla. Stat. 489.505(19)
Alarm System Contractor I / II
Class I covers all alarm systems for all purposes; Class II covers all alarm systems other than fire.
Fla. Stat. 489.505(2)(a); 489.505(2)(b)
The dashboard layout is shared across every trade. The build stages, job types, permits, and compliance rules below are generated from this trade's own config pack, so they are specific to Electrical.
Build stages and phases
Service call service
- Call taken
- Safety triage
- Make it safe
- Ring out the circuit
- Repair
- Documentation
Planned maintenance visit service
- Scheduled window
- Thermal imaging survey
- Panel inspection
- Panel schedule documentation
Service or panel upgrade build
- Load calculation
- Permit
- Utility disconnect
- Panel or service changeout
- Surge-protective device
- Inspection
- Utility reconnect
Rewire or remodel build
- Written scope and permit
- Rough-in
- Rough inspection
- Trim-out
- Final inspection
Generator install build
- Site and load assessment
- Permit
- Pad and gas
- Transfer switch
- Inspection
Job types
Service call service
Dead outlet, tripping breaker, flickering lights, burning smell, half the house out (the classic open neutral), GFCI won't reset, hot ceiling fixture.
Panel and service work buildpermit
Panel replacement, service upgrade, sub-panel installation, meter can replacement, replacement of a recalled or defective panel. Permit plus utility coordination plus the surge-protective device on a service replacement.
Rewire build
Whole-house or partial. Older Florida housing stock brings aluminum branch wiring, cloth-insulated conductors, and ungrounded two-wire circuits.
Adds and remodels build
New circuits for a range, dryer, EV charger, hot tub, pool equipment or mini-split; recessed lighting; ceiling fans; kitchen and bath remodels, which pull the current GFCI and AFCI rules onto everything touched.
Generators build
Portable interlock kits through whole-home standby with an automatic transfer switch. In Florida this is seasonal and emotional: inquiries spike on a forecast cone and collapse after the storm passes.
EV charging build
Charging circuits, load calculations, and sometimes a service upgrade the customer did not expect.
Pool and spa electrical build
Bonding, GFCI, equipment circuits and lighting under NEC Article 680. Not a niche in Florida - pool work is a large share of residential electrical demand here. The bonding facts themselves live in our trade rules and the pool construction knowledge file.
Commercial build
Tenant improvement, lighting retrofit, three-phase equipment, panel schedules, emergency and egress lighting, fire alarm where the licence scope allows it, data and low voltage.
Commercial planned maintenance service
Thermal imaging surveys, panel inspections, lighting retrofits. Residential electrical is overwhelmingly reactive; the real planned-maintenance market is commercial, and a shop trying to smooth its revenue is usually trying to build this side. An observation, not a measured claim.
Troubleshooting service
The genuinely skilled work, and the hardest to price.
Permits
Permit triggers from the pack. The pack does not name the local permit or its filing window on purpose, so this page does not either. The building department confirms those.
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Service or panel upgrade
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Any work for which a building permit is required
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Planned work - remodel, EV, generator, insurance or inspection requirement, commercial project
Compliance rules
Obligations that fire on a job, from this trade's pack. Items marked as an open question were not fully settled by the research and should be confirmed, not asserted.
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The adopted NEC edition decides the answer state
Fla. Bldg. Code, Building, 8th Ed., Ch. 27 sec. 2701.1 (UpCodes); floridabuilding.org NFPA adoption page
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The NEC is a standard, and it is adopted rather than federal state
NFPA 70 as adopted through the Florida Building Code
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GFCI protection for outdoor outlets, and the exception's written expiry statefrom research, not fully settled
Open question Whether the exception was extended could not be confirmed from a primary source; a TIA proposing an extension was reported and the outcome is unknown. Defer to the local building department.
NAHB, 'Sept. 1 Deadline Looms for Code Changes on Outdoor Outlets, GFCIs' (Aug 2026); EC&M; Eaton, NEC 210.8(F) GFCI Protection for Outdoor Outlets
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Why the outdoor-outlet GFCI rule exists industryfrom research, not fully settled
Eaton, NEC 210.8(F) GFCI Protection for Outdoor Outlets
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Surge protection when service equipment is replaced statefrom research, not fully settled
Open question The subsection wording was taken from manufacturer code summaries rather than from NFPA 70 itself, which is paywalled. The requirement is right in substance; the wording is not verified. Defer to the plans examiner.
Leviton, NEC 230.67 Surge Protection; Leviton, NEC code requirements for surge - manufacturer code summaries, not the NFPA 70 text
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GFCI for dwelling-unit receptacles and the widened voltage range statefrom research, not fully settled
Open question Section wording and subsection not verified against the adopted code text. Defer to the plans examiner.
NEC 210.8(A), read through manufacturer code summaries and code-training sites rather than the NFPA 70 text
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AFCI scope did not widen to every circuit statefrom research, not fully settled
Open question Section wording and subsection not verified against the adopted code text. Defer to the plans examiner.
NEC 210.12, read through manufacturer code summaries and code-training sites rather than the NFPA 70 text
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Tamper-resistant receptacles statefrom research, not fully settled
Open question Section wording and subsection not verified against the adopted code text. Defer to the plans examiner.
NEC 406.12, read through manufacturer code summaries and code-training sites rather than the NFPA 70 text
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Working space about electrical equipment statefrom research, not fully settled
Open question Section wording and subsection not verified against the adopted code text. Defer to the plans examiner.
NEC 110.26, read through manufacturer code summaries and code-training sites rather than the NFPA 70 text
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Pool and spa electrical is mainstream residential work here statefrom research, not fully settled
Open question Section wording not verified against the adopted code text. Defer to the plans examiner.
NEC Article 680, read through manufacturer code summaries and code-training sites rather than the NFPA 70 text
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Solar and interconnection is adjacent work this config does not cover statefrom research, not fully settled
Open question Section wording not verified, and the Florida solar regulatory layer was not researched at all. Defer to a solar-specific source and the utility.
NEC Articles 690 and 705, read through manufacturer code summaries and code-training sites rather than the NFPA 70 text
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A service upgrade is a sequence, not an appointment localtrade convention
Open question Utility reconnect time and inspection turnaround are unknowable in advance from this config. Defer to the local building department and the utility.
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Listing and labeling instructions are enforceable statefrom research, not fully settled
Open question Section numbers taken from general NEC structure and not verified against the adopted code text. Defer to the plans examiner.
NEC 110.2 / 110.3, from general NEC structure rather than the NFPA 70 text
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OSHA electrical safety-related work practices federalfrom research, not fully settled
Open question The OSHA text was not fetched; the section numbers need confirmation before they are quoted. Defer to the OSHA standard text.
29 CFR 1926 Subpart K; 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S; NFPA 70E
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Permit in effect before work commences state
Fla. Stat. 489.127(1)(h)
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No selling into fear state
Fla. Stat. 501.204; Fla. Stat. 489.129(1)(l)
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Genuine emergencies are not talked through on the phone industrytrade convention
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Warranty and guarantee disclosure federal
16 CFR 239.2, 239.3, 239.4
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Licence and insurance statements must be true of the specific account state
Fla. Stat. 489.129(1)(k); Fla. Stat. 489.127(1)(a)
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Disciplinary grounds that read like marketing problems state
Fla. Stat. 489.129(1)(j), (k), (l), (q)
Vocabulary the trade actually uses
- continuity
- megger
- voltage drop
- open neutral
- backfeed
- load calc
- ampacity
- service entrance
- load center
- bus bar
- lock out / tag out
- ring out
- double-tapped breaker
- bootleg ground
The screens
The screens above are the shared dashboard the app renders for every trade. The service, build, and command screens are the same across trades. What changes for this trade is the licensing, compliance, stage sequence, and vocabulary on this page, not the screen layout.
Where it stands today
Config-backed for licensing, stages, and vocabulary. Electrical runs on the shared service and build screens.
Talk to Vincent
Want to see it configured for your work?
Call or text (772) 529-4144 or email StingerIndustries1@gmail.com. He answers the phone.