About Us
Professional Electrical Contractors in the Tampa Bay area since 1960.
Second generation electrical contractors. We are a full service company with Commercial, Residential and Service departments to meet all your electrical needs.
How We Got Started
Father started the business in 1960 and had one of the first state master's licenses, EC000033.
The products and services we offer
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"D'Andrea Electric are very good to work with. Great communication, very thorough in the their work, and fair priced. "
"D'Andrea Electric is the best around and is a pleasure to work with."
Products & Services
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"We have partnered with them on jobs and have found them to be trustworthy and pleasant to do business with."
"We have partnered with them since their inception. They are easy to work with and most of all,..."
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"We have partnered with them since their inception. They are easy to work with and most of all, honest. The owner is directly involved in every project and communicates well with clients and sub-contractors.
Highly recommend them!"
Recent Activity
We are down 15% in sales from last year. Materials are still tight in certain sectors with expensive prices & delays in receiving them. Skilled laborers at a reasonable wage are difficult to find and we are now seeing "slow pay" customers affecting our cash flow. New construction jobs are being...
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We are down 15% in sales from last year. Materials are still tight in certain sectors with expensive prices & delays in receiving them. Skilled laborers at a reasonable wage are difficult to find and we are now seeing "slow pay" customers affecting our cash flow. New construction jobs are being held up because high interest loans are keeping people from investing. Overhead costs including cost of permits & fees rose, as did insurance policies from general to worker's comp to healthcare which amounted to 10-14% even with a low experience mod & no major issues or claims. I don't see anything in the near term being done to change the current state.
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Hard to find skilled Electricians. We lost a generation. True craftsmen have retired and college kids can't or won't work with their hands. New generation of young kids coming out of High School are encouraging & want to work but are not skilled yet. Pressing the apprenticeships.
Material costs...
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Hard to find skilled Electricians. We lost a generation. True craftsmen have retired and college kids can't or won't work with their hands. New generation of young kids coming out of High School are encouraging & want to work but are not skilled yet. Pressing the apprenticeships.
Material costs have doubled in price over the last year (Square D as an example).
I gave across the board COLA raises earlier this year but it wasn't enough.
More customers are now "slow pay".
Our company is family owned for 62 yrs. We won't quit or be defeated. We will make it to the next up cycle but that won't be with the current crop of political cronies that stick their paws into business.
The forecast for the next 6 months is dismal. We have plenty of work but still short on qualified employees. I could use 10 more electricians. Material prices have doubled in some cases (especially copper wire). A high likelihood that business taxes will be raised. Health insurance went up 8%...
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The forecast for the next 6 months is dismal. We have plenty of work but still short on qualified employees. I could use 10 more electricians. Material prices have doubled in some cases (especially copper wire). A high likelihood that business taxes will be raised. Health insurance went up 8% again for my employees as well as auto insurance and the prices for vehicles.
This is absolutely horrible for small businesses and the trades. It will devastate the apprenticeship programs and overpay high schoolers on their first jobs.
Personally, I will lay off my helpers and not hire any more helpers. I can’t afford to pay $15 per hour for untrained and unskilled...
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This is absolutely horrible for small businesses and the trades. It will devastate the apprenticeship programs and overpay high schoolers on their first jobs.
Personally, I will lay off my helpers and not hire any more helpers. I can’t afford to pay $15 per hour for untrained and unskilled workers to do menial tasks and customers don’t want to pay that either. I will use technology and other means to get the job done.
I do agree the federal minimum wage should be increased but not beyond $9-10 per hour.
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My father, who started our business was in the Army for a brief period in the early 60s. He was drafted not long after starting the business and after boot camp he would drive home on the weekends to do work and keep up the books. I joined the US Navy Reserves in 1993 and am still serving as a...
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My father, who started our business was in the Army for a brief period in the early 60s. He was drafted not long after starting the business and after boot camp he would drive home on the weekends to do work and keep up the books. I joined the US Navy Reserves in 1993 and am still serving as a Master Chief Petty Officer on my 28th yr of service. We like hiring vets and are proud of our service men and women as well as first responders.
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With today's information technology and social groups like alignable available, I don't like or need any contact from sales people. Anything I need or want to explore, I can do the research on my own and reach out. Sales contacts in all forms cost me and my office staff countless wasted hours...
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With today's information technology and social groups like alignable available, I don't like or need any contact from sales people. Anything I need or want to explore, I can do the research on my own and reach out. Sales contacts in all forms cost me and my office staff countless wasted hours each week with cold calls or random stop ins, going through mailers, fielding or routing phone calls, etc.
ACA was a joke! In the construction industry, my employees need true comprehensive insurance. We have a “level funded” policy with a main carrier that the company partially subsidizes. The company and employees are both vested and encouraged to stay healthy. Keep the government out of of our...
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ACA was a joke! In the construction industry, my employees need true comprehensive insurance. We have a “level funded” policy with a main carrier that the company partially subsidizes. The company and employees are both vested and encouraged to stay healthy. Keep the government out of of our businesses and pockets.
The short answer is yes. While we do pay some on-line, the construction industry is unique. Some suppliers use COD method of payment and I use a paper check to their driver so as not to have the driver or my warehouse staff have to deal with company credit cards. Sometimes lien releases or...
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The short answer is yes. While we do pay some on-line, the construction industry is unique. Some suppliers use COD method of payment and I use a paper check to their driver so as not to have the driver or my warehouse staff have to deal with company credit cards. Sometimes lien releases or specific hold dates for progress draws are better served with checks. Receiving loan checks from banks to contractors is still the order of the day.
One other thing to note is that sometimes checks are a more secure form of payment as some smaller companies do not have very secure on-line transaction protocol.
In Florida, that requires an EC license, not just an ER. The easiest way to break into commercial, I believe, is to start doing small build-outs in strip malls for new tenants. It's high visibility and free company advertising.
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In Florida, that requires an EC license, not just an ER. The easiest way to break into commercial, I believe, is to start doing small build-outs in strip malls for new tenants. It's high visibility and free company advertising.
Our business is located in the heart of our business district in the area and there are businesses nearby we weren't aware of. We have reached out and actually done business with a couple of them. BNI is too expensive. BNI is good for a new company starting out but we have been in business for 57...
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Our business is located in the heart of our business district in the area and there are businesses nearby we weren't aware of. We have reached out and actually done business with a couple of them. BNI is too expensive. BNI is good for a new company starting out but we have been in business for 57 yrs and are well known, work outside local BNI circles and are very busy most of the time.
