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Electrician Services in
Nassau County, NY

All Done Electric Works handles residential and commercial electrical work across Nassau County, NY: panel and service upgrades, EV chargers, wiring repair, lighting and low-voltage wiring. The rules change from town to town and village to village here, so before a job starts we tell you who permits it, who inspects it, and what PSEG Long Island needs before your power comes back on.

Electrical work we do in Nassau County

Most calls fall into one of the jobs below. Each page explains how the work goes here: what your town asks for, what PSEG Long Island asks for, and what is worth knowing before you hire anyone.

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Emergency electrical repair

Lost power, a burning smell at the panel, or service wires pulled down in a storm. We start with who owns what, because that decides who you call first.

Panel repair and upgrades

Breakers that keep tripping, old fuse boxes, panels that are full. We tell you plainly when a repair is enough.

Electric service upgrades

100 to 200 amps, meter pan, riser and weatherhead. This is the job with the most paperwork between you and PSEG Long Island.

EV charger installation

A NEMA 14-50 outlet or a hardwired Level 2 charger, sized to what your panel can carry.

Wiring repair and rewiring

Dead outlets, flickering lights, cloth-covered or aluminum wiring in older houses.

Lighting installation

Hi-hats, ceiling fans, outdoor and pool lighting.

Low-voltage wiring

Pre-wire, data and audio runs, security cameras and intercoms, installed under our New York alarm-installer license.

Commercial electrical work

Build-outs, panels, lighting and emergency power for offices, shops and restaurants

Who do you call first: PSEG Long Island or an electrician?

Call PSEG Long Island when the problem is on their side: an outage that hits the whole street, or a fault in the wires running from the pole to your house. Call an electrician when it is on your side: the weatherhead, the cable down to the meter, the meter pan, the panel, or anything inside the house.

The split is easier than it sounds. PSEG Long Island owns and maintains the overhead service drop and the meter. You own the point where the drop attaches to your house (the weatherhead and its eyebolt), the entrance cable, the meter pan, the panel and everything after it. When a storm damages your entrance cable, an electrician has to repair it before PSEG Long Island can restore service, and PSEG may make a temporary repair in the meantime.

Two exceptions. The villages of Freeport and Rockville Centre run their own municipal electric utilities, so those residents call the village, not PSEG Long Island. And on the Rockaway Peninsula the power comes from PSEG Long Island but electrical permits come from New York City.

Storm damage to the service is covered on our emergency electrician page.

How electrical work is licensed, permitted and inspected in Nassau

Nassau County does not license electricians. The county’s own Consumer Affairs office says plumbers and electricians here are licensed by the cities, towns and villages (Nassau County Consumer Affairs). In practice there are three layers:

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The three towns

Hempstead, North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, each have their own electrical licensing board and their own rules.

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Many villages add their own step

Valley Stream, Rockville Centre, Freeport, Lynbrook, Westbury, Stewart Manor and Garden City are examples, and the step can be a village license, a registration or a permit form.

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Cities

Long Beach and Glen Cove are cities with their own building departments. Long Beach also registers contractors with the City Clerk.

Inspection is not what most people expect. Nassau’s towns use private inspection agencies that the town has approved, not a town inspector who drives out. In the Town of Hempstead, no new wiring may be put into use until a final inspection has been applied for and a certificate of compliance has been issued (Hempstead code, Chapter 84). North Hempstead asks for rough wiring to be inspected before walls and ceilings are closed. PSEG Long Island then wants the inspection certificate before it connects or reconnects a new or changed service. Where your town or village requires a permit, we can obtain it and book the inspection.

One more thing changed this year. New York’s 2025 Uniform Code took effect on December 31, 2025, and it adopts the 2023 National Electrical Code, replacing the 2020 code and the 2017 NEC.

What a visit costs and what you are paying for?

We do not quote work we have not seen. Prices vary with the job, so each one is quoted after we assess it. What drives the number: how hard the wiring is to reach (finished walls, an attic, a crawl space), how far the job sits from the panel, the condition of what is already there, whether the panel or service has room for the load, and the permit and inspection steps your town or village requires.
A diagnostic visit is mostly knowing where to look. A loose connection in an attic junction box can cost a few dollars in parts and a couple of hours to find, because it can be knocking out outlets in three different rooms. You are paying for finding the cause, not for swapping a part and hoping, so the problem does not come back.

Rebates for EV chargers and some upgrades may be available, and they change by program and by project. We point you to PSEG Long Island’s current program pages instead of quoting amounts that may be out of date.

What we see in Nassau homes?

A lot of Nassau was built in the post-war boom. Levittown alone has about 17,000 homes put up between 1946 and 1951. Those houses now carry EV chargers, heat pumps and modern kitchens on services and panels that were sized for much less. We see old fuse boxes, 100-amp services, cloth-covered wiring, ungrounded outlets, and taped splices in attic junction boxes.

When we replace service equipment, two items from the 2023 NEC come up almost every time: whole-house surge protection and an outdoor emergency disconnect. If only the meter socket, the entrance cable or the conduit are being replaced, the NEC does not require the outdoor disconnect, so you should not be told you need one. Our service upgrade page walks through both cases.

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Troubleshooting Real Cases

Three Typical Jobs, Start to Finish

After a storm: service wires pulled loose

A typical job. Half the house goes dark after a storm and the lights dim and brighten. We find the weatherhead pulled loose and the entrance cable damaged where it meets it, all on the homeowner’s side of the connection, while PSEG Long Island’s drop and meter are fine. We repair the weatherhead and cable, get the permit and inspection through the town or village, and PSEG reconnects once it has the inspection certificate. What it means for you: the wires you can see on the house are yours, the drop from the pole is theirs, and the repair has to be inspected before the power comes back.

A breaker that kept tripping, and a burning smell

A typical job. A dryer breaker trips twice and there is a faint burning smell at the panel. An earlier visit read normal voltage and blamed the dryer. We check under load with a clamp meter and look at the breaker’s connection to the bus, and find a burned contact. We replace the breaker, check the panel for heat damage, and tell the homeowner whether repair is enough or the panel has reached the end of its life. What it means for you: a normal voltage reading does not clear a breaker, because the heat shows up only when current flows.

A 100 to 200 amp upgrade in a post-war house, with an EV charger

A typical job. A 1950s house on a 100-amp service wants a Level 2 charger. We check the real load first, since gas heat and cooking mean 100 amps does not always run out. When 200 amps is the answer, the permit goes in, PSEG Long Island disconnects, we replace the meter socket, entrance cable and service equipment, the inspection agency issues the certificate, and PSEG reconnects. Because service equipment is replaced, the outdoor disconnect and surge protection come with it, the old panel becomes a subpanel on a four-wire feeder, and the charger circuit goes in last. What it means for you: an upgrade is a sequence between your town and PSEG Long Island, and doing it in the right order is most of the job.

Nassau County Service Areas

We work across all of Nassau County and the western end of Long Island. Here is how it breaks down by the authority that regulates the job, because that is what decides your permit and inspection.

Service Areas

Freeport, Garden City, Rockville Centre, Valley Stream, Lynbrook, Elmont, Franklin Square, Bellmore, Merrick, Oceanside, Levittown, East Meadow and the rest of the town. Licensing runs through the Town of Hempstead, and inspection through town-approved agencies. Freeport and Rockville Centre have their own electric utilities. On the South Shore the town’s flood rules also apply: in a mapped flood hazard area, new and replacement electrical equipment must sit at least two feet above base flood elevation or be built to keep water out (Hempstead flood ordinance). Whether a like-for-like panel swap triggers that is a question for the Building Department, so we check the flood map first.

Great Neck, Manhasset, Port Washington, Roslyn, Mineola, New Hyde Park, Westbury and the neighboring communities. The town wants rough wiring inspected before the walls close, and some villages, Westbury for one, add their own license step on top of a town license.

Hicksville, Syosset, Jericho, Plainview, Bethpage, Massapequa and the neighboring communities. Oyster Bay has its own license classes, takes permit applications through its Building Division, and sends propane generator installations to the Nassau County Fire Marshal.

Two cities with their own building departments. Long Beach has been entirely inside the FEMA flood zone since September 2009, so panel and meter height is part of almost every service job there.

Western Suffolk (Babylon, Huntington, Islip and Smithtown), Queens including the Rockaways, Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island. Each works differently: Con Edison supplies much of New York City and Brooklyn, Suffolk and Nassau license electricians by county, and the five boroughs file through the Department of Buildings. We follow the process for whichever area your job is in.
Your mailing address may name a different community than the village you actually live in, because post offices and school districts do not follow village lines. If you are not sure which village’s rules apply, your village hall or town clerk can tell you, or ask us.

What to expect when you Call Us

We respond within 1 hour and ask what you are seeing: which circuits, how old the house is and where the panel sits, so the right person arrives with the right parts

We look at the job and explain what we find in plain terms, including what does not need doing.
You get the scope in writing before work starts.
Where your town or village requires a permit, we can obtain it and book the inspection.
We leave the work area clean and the panel labeled.
Frequently Asked Questions

Questions Nassau Homeowners Ask Us

Call PSEG Long Island for an outage that covers your street and for faults in the wires between the pole and your house. Call an electrician for the weatherhead, entrance cable, meter pan, panel and anything inside. If half the house is dead or the lights dim and brighten, it can be either side, and we can usually narrow it down on the phone.

A private inspection agency approved by your town does the inspection. In the Town of Hempstead, new wiring cannot be used until the certificate of compliance is issued. North Hempstead’s paperwork puts the inspection cost on the owner or the electrician.

In Nassau, almost always. Panel and service work is permitted and inspected, and PSEG Long Island needs the inspection certificate before it reconnects a changed service. We can obtain the permit for you. For a like-for-like outlet or switch swap the answer varies by town and village, so ask before assuming.

Almost all of Nassau County. Freeport and Rockville Centre run their own village electric utilities. On the Rockaway Peninsula, PSEG Long Island supplies the power but permits come from New York City.

Because the work is finding the fault, not the part. A bad connection can cost a few dollars to fix and a couple of hours to locate, and an electrician who only swaps the obvious part can leave the real problem behind.

If you see smoke or flames, leave the house and call 911. If it is only a smell, keep away from the panel, do not keep resetting breakers, and call an electrician right away. A normal voltage reading does not rule out a burned breaker contact, because the heat shows up under load.

New York’s 2025 Uniform Code took effect on December 31, 2025 and adopts the 2023 National Electrical Code, replacing the 2020 code and the 2017 NEC. The changes homeowners meet most are surge protection and the outdoor emergency disconnect when service equipment is replaced, and wider GFCI and arc-fault protection on new or changed circuits.

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