Electrician in Bloomfield, NJ
Malfettone Electric is a licensed electrician serving Bloomfield, NJ — family-owned since 1977 and holding New Jersey Electrical Contractor License #17130. Bloomfield's Watsessing two-families and Brookdale colonials and capes are largely still on 60- or 100-amp service, which is why 200-amp upgrades, heat-pump circuits and EV chargers are most of our work here. Permits filed with the Township's construction office at Municipal Plaza.
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The three jobs we do most in Bloomfield
We do the full range of residential and commercial electrical work here — see the full service list — but these three account for most of what Bloomfield homeowners and landlords call about.
What Bloomfield homes are actually wired like
Bloomfield is really several towns in one, and the electrical work follows the neighborhood. Watsessing, at the southern end toward Newark and Belleville, is dense early-1900s to 1930s two-family and semi-attached housing — shared basements, stacked meters, and services sized for two households in another century. Bloomfield Center and the Broad Street blocks mix pre-war multi-families with commercial ground floors along the Bloomfield Avenue corridor. Brookdale, at the north end near the park, is the classic 1930s–1950s suburb: center-hall colonials, capes and split-levels on their own lots, most with a detached or attached garage and an original 100-amp service. Across all three we find 60-amp fuse boxes, original 100-amp panels, Federal Pacific and Zinsco replacements from the 1960s, and cloth-insulated branch wiring. The pressure now is heat-pump conversions and EV charging, which is what turns a panel that has been fine for sixty years into a hard constraint.
nearly 50 years of this exact housing stock is why we can quote Bloomfield work accurately from photos instead of guessing on site. See the Hudson County overview for how the neighbouring Hudson County towns compare — Bloomfield sits directly across the line, on the same PSE&G territory and the same statewide code.
Township of Bloomfield construction office, Municipal Building, 1 Municipal Plaza
Bloomfield permits electrical work through the Township's construction office at the Municipal Building on Municipal Plaza, where the electrical subcode official reviews the application under the NJ Uniform Construction Code. Approval typically takes 5–10 business days, with fees for typical residential work of $150–$300 included in our quoted price. The panel is inspected before it is energized. We file the application and meet the inspector; you never handle the paperwork.
PSE&G in Bloomfield
Bloomfield is PSE&G territory, the same utility we coordinate with every day in Hudson County, so crossing the Essex line changes the construction office and nothing else about the process. Expect 1–3 weeks of PSE&G scheduling for the disconnect and reconnect after the permit is issued. In Watsessing's attached and semi-attached housing, adjoining properties sometimes share an overhead drop or a meter stack — if PSE&G has to run a separate drop or set new meter equipment, that adds time, and we flag it at the assessment.
More Bloomfield electrical detail
Electrician FAQs — Bloomfield, NJ
Third-generation owner of Malfettone Electric, family-owned in Jersey City since 1977. Michael has personally run panel upgrades, rewires and service changes across Bloomfield and the rest of the Hudson–Essex line— filing the permits, submitting the PSE&G applications, and meeting the inspectors himself. The prices and timelines on this page come from our own recent Bloomfield jobs.
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Need an electrician in Bloomfield?
Send us photos or hop on a short video call — most Bloomfield jobs can be quoted without a truck roll. Written price, permit included, nearly 50 years of doing this work here.