Exterior lighting
Exterior lighting
With bucket trucks and lift services at our disposal, we can adequately tackle all lighting situations, from store signage and billboards to light posts and exterior building lighting.
Chapter 01
Bucket trucks and lift services
Most of what makes exterior lighting hard is not the wiring. It is getting to it. Store signage, billboards and light posts sit fifteen, twenty, thirty feet up, and a contractor without a lift has to sub that part out to somebody else before the actual electrical work can even start.
North Town Electric runs its own bucket trucks and lift services, so height access is never the reason a job stalls or waits on a second company's schedule. That is the real differentiator behind the phrase they use for themselves: tackling all lighting situations, from store signage and billboards to light posts and exterior building lighting, in one visit instead of two.
Steel-frame commercial building at electrical fit-out, conduit and cable tray running to the high bays where exterior and signage lighting circuits originate
The lot, the sign, and the building line
The scope covers exterior building lighting, parking lot lighting, signage lighting and ground lighting, and each one is doing a different job for the business that owns it. A dark parking lot is a security and liability question the moment the sun goes down. A dark sign is a trading question, since a business that cannot be read from the road at night is closed to anyone driving past after dark, whatever the posted hours say.
Ground lighting and building-line lighting sit in between: they shape how a property reads at night and how easily a customer, a delivery driver or a patrol pass can tell the building is occupied and cared for. None of it is decorative in the way a homeowner's landscape lighting is decorative. On a commercial property, exterior lighting is part of how the building operates after hours.
Chapter 03
LED upgrades on an existing pole
LED upgrades are part of the published scope, and most of that work happens on infrastructure that already exists rather than as a ground-up install. A pole, a base and a run of conduit that already serves a parking lot fixture does not need to be pulled out to change what sits on top of it.
The judgment call is whether the existing pole, wiring and photocell can carry a modern LED fixture as a retrofit, or whether age and condition mean the fixture is only the first thing that needs replacing. North Town Electric looks at what is actually on the pole before quoting either answer.
Troubleshooting exterior faults
Exterior faults are harder to find than interior ones, and it is not close. Weather gets into connections that an indoor fixture never has to withstand. Runs between a building and a pole are frequently buried, which turns a bad splice into a dig instead of an inspection. Photocells and contactors, the parts that decide when the lights come on at all, fail in ways that look like a dozen other problems from the ground.
That is the troubleshooting work that sits behind the phrase troubleshooting and repairs in the published scope: tracing a fault through buried conductors, weather-worn connections and the switching gear that controls a whole lot or a whole sign, rather than replacing parts until something happens to fix it.
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