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Electrical

Josiah Rittermann holds both the administrator and electrician credentials at his Medical Lake electrical company

At Reliable Electrical Contractors in Medical Lake, the owner whose credentials back the company is also the electrician customers hire and remember by name.

White Reliable Electrical Contractors LLC work van with a red ladder on the roof rack, parked on a gravel road
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Josiah Rittermann lists two Washington credentials beside his name. He is an electrical administrator, and he is a certified electrician. At Reliable Electrical Contractors LLC, the company he owns, the person who holds both is also the one customers hire.

The company is based in Medical Lake and holds a Washington electrical contractor license in the general category. It is licensed, bonded and insured. It works for homeowners, rental properties and small businesses across Spokane County, and Rittermann’s name appears as owner on the company’s own posts.

Panel and service upgrades lead the company’s list of work. A homeowner who brought Rittermann in to upgrade an electrical panel later described him walking through each step of the installation and making sure the house met safety codes. The account names him, not a crew or a dispatcher.

Open electrical panel in an unfinished house, filled with breakers and wiring, with circuit labels handwritten on the wood studs
An electrical panel wired in a home under construction, with circuits labeled by hand on the framing.

The rest of the list covers rewires and remodel wiring, generator transfer switches and hot tub circuits, along with lighting indoors and out, repair calls and some light commercial work.

One item on that list is more particular than the others. Reliable installs EV chargers, and it will wire in a charger the customer has bought on their own.

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