How County Line works on your job.

The relationship

Builders keep County Line on the roster because the phone gets answered.

Jeff Tucker answers his own phone. On a custom home that matters more than any brochure claim, because the questions that come up at rough-in cannot wait for a callback: the framer moved a wall, the owner wants another keypad, the inspector wants to see the bonding. County Line has worked for the same general contractors for years because those questions get an answer the same day and the schedule does not slip because of the electrical.

The company is small on purpose. The crew that bids the job is the crew on the job. There is no estimator who disappears after the contract is signed and no rotating cast of electricians who have to be re-taught the house.

What we need, what you get

The exchange, in plain terms.

Coordination

Where the electrical meets the other trades.

Most problems on a custom home happen at the edges of a trade. These are the edges County Line watches.

• Framing: recessed and linear fixtures, dimming panel room, shade pockets, generator pad and clearances
• Mechanical: condensing units, air handlers, pool equipment and the loads they add to the service calculation
• Plumbing and gas: the generator gas line and the EV charger location in the garage
• Lighting designer: fixture schedules, keypad engraving, scene programming
• Integrator or AV: head end location, rack power, network closet cooling, conduit to every TV and speaker location
• Landscape: lighting feeds, gate and intercom power, pool and spa bonding
• Solar and battery: interconnection, the critical loads panel and how the generator and battery share the house

Questions from estimators and architects

Inspections

Passing the first time is the schedule.

On a custom home the electrical inspections are the rough, sometimes a service inspection, and the final, and each one that fails costs the builder a week. County Line schedules its own inspections, walks the house before the inspector arrives, and has worked with the inspectors in the City of Los Angeles, Malibu, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, Beverly Hills and the three counties long enough to know what each one looks for. The company keeps the correction list short by doing the work to the code as written, not to the code as remembered.

As-builts and a labeled panel go to the builder at the end, because the next electrician to open that panel, in ten years, should not have to guess.

Change orders

Where they come from, and how County Line keeps them rare.

Most electrical change orders on a custom home come from three places: a lighting plan that does not match the framing, an owner who decides at trim that there should be a keypad by the bed after all, and a service that was sized for the house in the drawings rather than the house being built, with its generator, its two EV chargers and its induction range. County Line prices from the full set to catch the first, captures the owner's decisions in writing before finish to catch the second, and sizes the service from a real load calculation to catch the third.

When a change is genuinely the owner's, it is priced in writing before the work is done. A change order that arrives after the fact is a bill, not a change order.