Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona
Your home. Your power.Our expertise.
Apex Electrical Services is a licensed electrical contractor working the White Mountains out of Pinetop-Lakeside. Panels, rewiring, EV charging, backup power, and the diagnostic work that finds what is actually wrong.
A job we did
A 1970s cabin that kept tripping its main
The call was a breaker that would not stay on once the weather turned. A place off the Show Low road, built in the mid seventies, still running the original 100 amp service. Nothing had failed. The house had simply collected forty years of additions: a well pump, a chest freezer on the porch, baseboard heat in the back bedroom, and a hot tub somebody wired in the nineties.
We started with a load calculation rather than a quote. It came back at a little over 150 amps of demand on a service rated for 100, which is why the main let go every time the pump and the heat came on together. The panel was not broken. It was doing exactly what it was built to do.
The work was a 200 amp service upgrade: new meter can, new main breaker panel, and every branch circuit re-landed and labeled as it went back. The old conduit got re-run clear of the stone chimney where it had been rubbing, and the well pump came off the shared circuit onto its own two-pole breaker. One day with the power off, coordinated with the utility for the meter pull.
The part worth saying plainly: the owner had been quoted a panel swap twice before without anyone running a load calculation first. A bigger panel on the same undersized service would have tripped just the same. The calculation is cheap. Doing the job twice is not.
A company built to do it properly
Apex was started for a simple reason, and it is worth saying in the owner’s own words: to build a company with integrity, to be independent, and to grow something the family can rely on.
In practice that means the person who quotes your job is the person who does it. It means a firm price before the work starts. It means we would rather spend an hour finding the actual fault than sell you a part that might cover the symptom.
The company is two years old. The owner brought eight years in the trade to it. Both licenses are current and the work is done to the code the inspector here actually enforces.
How we work
- Who shows upThe person who quoted the job
- PricingA firm number before the work starts
- PermitsPulled and inspected, not skipped
- RadiusAbout 40 miles, across Navajo and Apache counties
What we do
The full catalog runs to well over a hundred services across fourteen categories. These are the ones people call about most, and every one of them has a page explaining what the job involves.
How a job actually goes
Most calls up here follow the same four steps. Knowing them ahead of time is usually what keeps a visit from turning into three.
You describe the symptom
What it does, when it started, and what is on the circuit. Half the time that narrows it before anyone drives out.
We load-calculate before we sell anything
A lot of our work is capacity, not breakage. The wiring is not failing so much as being asked to do a job it was never sized for.
You get the number and the reason
What it runs and why, in plain terms, with the option of doing it in stages if the whole thing is not urgent.
It gets inspected, then it disappears
Permits mean somebody other than me looks at the work before it goes behind a wall. That is the point of them.
Cathedral ceilings and the ladder problem
Half the fixtures up here sit fifteen or twenty feet above a hearth, at the peak of a cathedral ceiling, over a floor nobody wants scratched. That is why a fan swap in a cabin is a different job from a fan swap in a ranch house.
It means scaffold rather than a ladder, drop cloths over the stone and the floor, and a plan for getting the old fixture down without putting a foot through anything. The wiring is the quick part.
We do this often enough that the staging is routine. If your fixture is somewhere awkward, that is worth saying on the phone so we bring the right access.
Where we work
Based in Pinetop-Lakeside and working roughly forty miles out, which covers most of Navajo County and the western side of Apache County.
- Navajo County
- Apache County
- All service areas
- Show LowOur second base. Panel work and service upgrades on the newer builds off Deuce of Clubs.
- Pinetop-LakesideHome ground. Cabin rewires, fixture work at cathedral-ceiling height, and same-week calls.
- SnowflakeLonger runs out to property on acreage, where the well pump and the house share one panel.
- TaylorOlder service entrances that predate the current code, and the corrections that go with them.
- Heber-OvergaardHeavy second-home territory. Freeze-season calls on places that sat empty since fall.
- GreerHighest elevation we cover. Generator and backup work for a road that closes in weather.
- ConchoWide-open lots on the Apache County side, often with a long feed from the meter to the house.
- LindenBetween Show Low and Pinetop. Remodel wiring and additions on established lots.
What the elevation actually changes
Most of what makes electrical work different up here comes down to two things: the houses were built across sixty years to sixty different ideas of enough power, and the weather has an opinion about all of it. A cabin wired in 1974 for a coffee pot and a television is now running a chest freezer, a well pump, a space heater and somebody charging a car in the driveway.
That shows up as capacity problems rather than broken parts. The wiring is not failing so much as being asked to do a job nobody sized it for. A load calculation is usually the first honest step, and it is cheaper than the guess it replaces, because the guess tends to get paid for twice.
Weather is the other half. Storms take lines down on this side of the rim more than once a year, roads into Greer and the higher country close, and a house that loses power in January is a house with pipes to worry about. That is why backup power here is a different conversation than it is in the valley: the question is not comfort, it is which circuits have to stay alive while you wait.
Second homes add a third wrinkle. A place that sits empty from October to May comes back online all at once, and whatever quietly failed over the winter announces itself the first weekend somebody is back in it. Opening a cabin is worth doing deliberately rather than by flipping the main and hoping.
Sizing is the whole job. Undersized nuisance trips, oversized stops protecting anything.
Questions we get
Do you do small jobs?
Yes. One outlet, one switch, one fixture. Small jobs are how most people meet us.
How soon can you get out?
Depends on the week and on whether it is urgent. Emergencies get moved to the front.
Do you work on commercial buildings?
The C-11 license covers commercial work. Most of what we do is residential, but the licensing is there.
Can you work with my contractor?
Regularly. On remodels and additions we coordinate the electrical scope with whoever is running the job.
What if the problem turns out to be something else?
We tell you. Testing before quoting exists so that nobody pays for the wrong repair.
Are you licensed?
Yes. We hold a C-11 commercial license, number 192532, and an R-11 residential license, number 192533. Both are current and we are insured.
How long have you been doing this?
The company is two years old. The owner has eight years in the trade before that, which is where the experience behind the work comes from.
Still not sure what you need?
Call and describe it. Half the time we can tell you what it probably is before anyone drives out, and that saves you a visit.
See recent work or send the details and we will come look.