Temp power, rough-in, and trim-out for residential builders across the metro - bid from your plans, built to your spec, and finished on the date we gave you.
This is our new construction production work: standard-spec homes for residential builders and general contractors in the Oklahoma City metro. We take off from your plan set, set temporary power, run the rough-in behind your framers, carry it through inspection, and come back for trim so the house is ready for your walkthrough. Homes and new construction are the only things we do - we don't take commercial accounts, so nothing pulls a crew off your lot mid-week.
Builders don't shop for electricians the way homeowners do. You're not comparing fixtures; you're managing a critical path where the electrical rough-in sits between framing and insulation, and where a sub who slips three days pushes drywall, which pushes paint, which pushes your closing. The bid matters, but the date matters more, and most of the builders who call us are calling because the last sub was cheap and late.
So that's what we've built this side of our work around: accurate take-offs, a rough-in that leaves the next trades a clean house to work in, inspections we schedule and attend ourselves, and a trim crew that finishes to the same standard on lot twelve as on lot one. If your plan repeats across a development, that repetition works in your favor - we learn the spec once and build it the same way every time.
Rough-in sits on the critical path, and a missed week there costs you drywall, paint, and eventually a closing. We commit to a window, staff it, and if something genuinely threatens the date you hear it from us early - not from your superintendent standing in an empty house.
You get a real person who knows your plans and your spec, answers the phone, and can make a decision on the lot. Superintendents spend enough of their day chasing subs; we'd rather be the one they don't have to chase.
We coordinate routing with plumbing and mechanical instead of drilling through their work and leaving it for someone else to sort out. Clean rough-in means fewer framer callbacks, fewer insulation problems, and a drywall crew that isn't working around our mess.
Repeating plans should get easier, not sloppier. We build your spec the same way every time, so your walkthroughs are predictable, your warranty calls stay low, and your buyers get consistent quality across the development.
Builders reach out at all stages, but these are the ones where we can do the most good:
If you're building a custom home rather than a standard-spec plan, or your buyer wants the electrical designed around the architecture, start with custom home electrical design instead - that's a different conversation, held earlier.
Every builder wants a per-square-foot number, but here's what genuinely moves a bid:
Send us a plan set and a spec sheet and you'll get a written bid you can hold us to.
Yes. Send us the plan set and your electrical spec and we take off from it directly, including your standard device and fixture counts, can layout, and any options you sell on that plan. If your spec sheet leaves something ambiguous, we ask before we bid rather than assuming and correcting it later as a change order.
The more lead time you give us, the tighter we can hold the date, and we would rather be on your schedule weeks ahead than squeezed in the week of. Tell us the framing completion target when you set it and we will commit to a rough-in window and tell you honestly if something threatens it instead of going quiet.
Yes. We regularly work multiple homes for the same builder, including repeating plans in the same development, and repetition makes us faster and more consistent on your spec. What we will not do is take on more lots than we can staff, because a builder needs a sub who says no occasionally more than one who says yes and then misses dates.
Yes. We set the temporary service so framing, HVAC, and the rest of your trades have power from the start, and we coordinate that with the utility and the inspection so it is not the thing holding up the start of your build.
We do. We pull the electrical permit, schedule the rough and final inspections with the municipality, and meet the inspector ourselves. Every city in the metro handles scheduling and re-inspection differently, and keeping that off your superintendent's desk is part of what you are hiring us for.
Buyers move a bedroom outlet, add can lights, or upgrade to fans in every room, and it is easier to absorb before rough-in than after drywall. We price the change in writing, tell you what it does to the schedule if anything, and get your approval before we build it. No surprise line items showing up at trim.
Rough-in is on the critical path, and every day it slips is a day drywall, paint, and your closing slip with it. If your current sub is costing you weeks, or you've got lots coming online and need coverage you can plan around, send us the plans and let's talk about your schedule before you need us on site.
You'll get a written bid, a real person who answers the phone, and a crew that finishes lot twelve the same way it finished lot one. And if anything isn't right after we leave, Grider always makes it right. Grider Electric is licensed and insured, based in north Oklahoma City, and works on homes and new construction only - serving Oklahoma City, Edmond, Arcadia, Guthrie, Yukon, Moore, Norman, Mustang, Piedmont, Bethany, The Village, Nichols Hills, and the Deer Creek area.