SE PA, 1hr north of Pitts.
Licenses are done through local townships, and generally you have to have a license in every township. Gets kinda expensive. @$100 each.
Just proof of insurance and FED ID number is usually all it takes.
Having said that:
Even with a state wide licensing, you'll never keep Tom, Dick and Harry, "hackers" out.
In fact, Most of the guys here in the yellow books, don't do electric work. They are "fronts".
They take out multiple adds, hire sub contractors to sell and do the work and pay them cash, uasually 40% of the job total.
They pay all advertising costs, but do no work.
That's how you see 200A services going for $5,000.
I am hoping someday, the state puts and end to this pratice, Or the IRS gets involved. This type of pratice is killing the industry when it comes to "respectability".
Dnk......
[This message has been edited by Dnkldorf (edited 04-07-2005).]
