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Critical Peake Services Critical Peake is a full-service commercial and residential electrical contractor serving the
Mid-Atlantic. We handle projects of every size.

Our licensed, bonded, and insured team
provides scheduled electrical service and 24/7 emergency support.

10/15/2026

This breaker kept tripping, but the panel read fine. The problem was one floor down.

Breaker trouble at your property?
We’re just a call away 24/7.

10/13/2026

130 feet of trench, two days, one tech.

The underground feed to a row of parking lot lights in Richmond, VA had to be replaced. Our technician trenched 19 inches deep, laid new PVC conduit with warning tape on top, set new ground boxes, and pulled 140 feet of new wire. Every light is working.

Need site lighting or underground electrical work? Call 877-247-9767.

10/09/2026

An infrared scan flagged hot breakers in three panels at this building, including the 800-amp main at 105.4 degrees.

We tightened the main breaker's terminals, inspected its wires and scanned it again. The temperature was significantly lower.

The warm breakers in the next panel all feed garage exhaust fans that run constantly, so that heat comes from steady use. At the generator jacket heater, the wires were in good condition, the connections were tight, and the new scan read lower.

10/08/2026

Eight carport lights were out. We covered the photocell and still nothing came on.

Every junction box we opened had an open neutral. The panel feeding the carports was tight, so we kept tracing until we opened an old photocell box on the side of the electric shed. That's where the burnt neutral splice was.

We repaired it with all new connections and the lights came back on. A few fixtures have good power but stay dark, and those need replacing.

10/07/2026

We're converting 64 exterior lights at this property to LED, across four different types of fixtures.

At each light we shut off the circuit, bypass the ballast, send line voltage straight to the socket and install a new LED lamp. The garage lights and the pole lights are done, and we've started on the ground lights out front.

10/07/2026

A concrete repair crew hit several conduits buried in a parking garage slab, and lights went out on more than one level.

We cut out the damaged sections and spliced in temporary cable so the lights could come back while the concrete work went on. Every temporary splice got a wood cover for safety.

Then we came back for the permanent repair, setting junction boxes on each cut conduit with liquid-tight and new wire between them. All the conduits in the slab are fixed and the lights are on.

10/06/2026

We got a call about kitchen outlets that had stopped working. Behind the countertop outlet closest to the sink, the aluminum wires were burnt so far back we couldn't even splice them.

We cut a new box into the cabinet above it to splice the aluminum to copper, and ran a new cable down to a new GFI. The other aluminum runs tested good, so they got copper tails and new devices as well.

The circuit was also on a 15-amp breaker when it should be on a 20, so we upgraded it. Everything is back on and working.

10/02/2026

Flickering lights through an apartment. We started at the switch and worked back through the panel to the meter stack, where the hot and neutral connections were re-made and the neutrals tightened.

A megger test on all the lines passed, so the wiring itself was sound.

One dimmer in the dining room was running a fixture that is not rated to dim. That came out and a standard switch went in. What was left was the kitchen light dipping when the disposal starts, and that disposal pulls over 19 amps for a second before settling under 5.

10/01/2026

A breaker that is warm to the touch is telling you something is wrong. This one was hot with a normal load on it, which points at the breaker itself rather than at anything the tenant was running.

The voltage at the meter base and inside the panel were normal. The heat was not.

On the return visit we pulled that breaker and installed the correct style in its place, then confirmed the voltages. We also told property management the rest of the older breakers should be swapped as well since they run hot as they age.

09/30/2026

This one came in as a possible overloaded circuit. Once the panel cover was off you could see it. The insulation on that circuit's wire had melted, and the wire had worked itself loose at the breaker.

Loose and hot is how a connection starts cooking. We cut out the damaged wire and set a new breaker with the right rating, because the old one had taken heat too.

Then we tested every receptacle on the circuit and covered two open spaces in the panel where a person could reach live parts.

Address

980 Mercantile Drive Suite A
Hanover, MD
21076

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+18772479767

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