Electrical
Residential electrical work in Pierce County
Panels, EV chargers, standby generators, rewires, lighting, and the small things that quietly stop working. Licensed in Washington as a residential electrical contractor since 2016, and based in Spanaway.
The licence
An electrical contractor, not a sideline
Most companies do one trade and subcontract the rest. We started on the electrical side — it is in the name — and it is still half of what we do.
Sun View Electric LLC has held a Washington residential electrical contractor licence since July 2016. Sam Bye runs it out of Spanaway.
The electrical licence is SUNVIVE845MO. The contractor registration is SUNVIVE776ML. Both are active, we are bonded and insured, and you can check either number yourself in about a minute on the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries verification tool. Ask every contractor you call for those numbers. The ones worth hiring hand them over.
Estimates are free. Military members and seniors take 10% off. Financing is available through Wisetack.
Where the work is
Panels, chargers, generators
Three jobs that change what a house can carry. All three are electrical contractor work, and on all three we can dig the trench as well, so nothing waits on a second company.
Panel replacements
Panels fill up long before they wear out. Then a breaker starts tripping, or there is simply nowhere left to land a circuit for the shop, the hot tub or the charger. We replace panels, and when the service comes in from the street, the trench and the meter set are ours too.
EV chargers
The charger on the wall is the small part. Getting a circuit to where the car actually parks — across a garage, through a wall, out to a detached one — is the job, and it has to be sized against what the panel already carries. We look at both before we quote either.
Standby generators
Automatic standby generators, so the house changes over without anyone walking outside in the weather. The 5,500 square foot log home on our projects page runs a 24kW unit that we installed as part of the build.
The full list
Everything on the electrical side
One receptacle or a whole house. If what you need is not on this list, call and ask — the estimate is free either way.
- Receptacle and lighting upgrades and changeouts
- Under-cabinet lighting
- Recessed lighting
- Troubleshooting devices and equipment
- Surge protection
- Whole-house rewires
- Septic wiring
- Well pumps and systems
- Detached shops, sheds and carports
- Hot tubs
- Panel replacements
- Automatic standby generators
- EV chargers
- Remodels — kitchen, bath, whole house
- New construction
New construction & remodels
Most of it disappears behind drywall
Rough-in is the part nobody ever sees again. Where the boxes land, how the home runs are pulled, where the panel goes and how much room is left in it for whatever the house gets ten years from now.
Those decisions are cheap on the day and expensive afterwards. We would rather spend the extra half hour at rough-in than open a finished wall.
We wire new houses, and we wire remodels — kitchens, baths, whole houses. Bringing power in from the street is ours as well: the trench, the conduit and the meter set are one crew on one schedule, because we run the excavator ourselves.
Repairs & smaller jobs
The jobs that are not projects
A switch that gets warm. A circuit that trips whenever the dryer runs. Half a kitchen dead for no reason anyone can see.
Troubleshooting devices and equipment is proper electrical work, and we take those calls. So is the ordinary stuff: replacing receptacles, switches and fixtures, hanging a light that is heavier than the old box was meant for, adding surge protection, wiring a hot tub, running power to a shed or a carport.
If anything in the house smells like it is burning, turn that circuit off at the panel first, then call. We are here Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm, and weekends are by phone.
Lighting
Light where you actually need it
Recessed, under-cabinet, exterior, high bay. Adding light to a finished room is mostly a question of what is above the ceiling and where the switch leg can go, which is why we look before we promise a layout.
Kitchens
Recessed lighting over the island and the run of counter, under-cabinet lighting for the work you actually do standing up, and the circuits a remodelled kitchen needs behind all of it.
High and vaulted ceilings
Cedar, timber and vaulted ceilings leave nowhere easy to run a cable and nothing forgiving to cut into. They are worth doing carefully and they are worth doing once.
Shops and outbuildings
High-bay LED lighting, exterior security lights, welder and RV receptacles. A detached shop usually needs the power brought to it before it needs any of that, and we do that half as well.
Common questions
Before you call an electrician
Does electrical work need a permit?
Most of it does. In Washington, electrical work is permitted and inspected: new circuits, panel and service changes, rewires and new construction all fall under that. What your job needs depends on its scope and on the authority that covers your address, so the estimate spells it out before anything starts.
How do I know if my panel needs replacing?
The usual signs are breakers that trip again and again, a breaker or a panel cover that is warm to the touch, scorch marks, a burning smell, or simply no spare space left for another circuit. The other common reason is a new load: a charger, a hot tub, a shop, a heat pump. None of that can be called from a photograph. Opening the panel and looking is part of the free estimate.
Can my existing panel handle an EV charger?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It depends on the spare capacity in the panel and on what the rest of the house already draws. That is a look-at-it question rather than a phone question, and the free estimate answers it. If the panel has to be replaced first, we do that part too, so it stays one company and one schedule.
Do you work on knob-and-tube wiring?
We do whole-house rewires, which is where old wiring often ends up. Whether a house needs all of it replaced or only part of it depends on what is actually in the walls and how much is still in service, and there is no honest way to answer that without looking. The estimate is free either way.
Free estimate
Tell us what the house is doing
Estimates are free, for one receptacle or a whole rewire. Calling gets you an answer sooner than any form will.
- Mon–Fri 8am–5pm, weekends by phone
- Free estimates
- 10% off for military and seniors
- Financing available through Wisetack
- Licensed, bonded and insured — SUNVIVE845MO
- All of Pierce County, plus parts of Thurston and King