Electrician in Nutley, NJ
Malfettone Electric is a licensed electrician serving Nutley, NJ — family-owned since 1977 and holding New Jersey Electrical Contractor License #17130. Nutley's 1920s–1950s colonials, Tudors and capes through Nutley Park, Spring Garden and Yantacaw are largely still on 60- or 100-amp service, which is what brings us here: 200-amp upgrades, heat-pump circuits and EV chargers. Permits filed with the Township's Code Enforcement Department.
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The three jobs we do most in Nutley
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 Nutley homeowners and landlords call about.
What Nutley homes are actually wired like
Nutley is a well-kept township of mostly owner-occupied single-family homes built between about 1920 and 1955 — center-hall colonials, Tudors, four-squares and capes through Nutley Park, Spring Garden, Yantacaw and Radcliffe, with a smaller stock of two-families near Franklin Avenue. The houses have generally been maintained, which is exactly what makes the electrical situation deceptive: a home can have a new kitchen, a finished basement and central air, and still be fed by the original 100-amp panel with a subpanel bolted on beside it. Federal Pacific and Zinsco panels from the 1960s and 1970s are common, cloth-insulated branch wiring survives behind plaster in the older blocks, and detached garages are often fed by an undersized or long-obsolete run. The current drivers are heat-pump and mini-split conversions and EV charging, both of which put the service capacity question on the table for the first time in decades.
nearly 50 years of this exact housing stock is why we can quote Nutley work accurately from photos instead of guessing on site. See the Hudson County overview for how the neighbouring Hudson County towns compare — Nutley sits directly across the line, on the same PSE&G territory and the same statewide code.
Township of Nutley Code Enforcement Department, Town Hall, 1 Kennedy Drive
Nutley permits electrical work through the Code Enforcement Department at Town Hall on Kennedy Drive, which houses the township's construction and electrical subcode officials, 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 do not visit Town Hall.
PSE&G in Nutley
Nutley is PSE&G territory, the same utility we coordinate with daily in Hudson County, so the disconnect and reconnect process is one we run constantly. Expect 1–3 weeks of PSE&G scheduling after the permit is issued, with the panel swap a one-day job. Nutley's mature street trees mean overhead service drops sometimes need line clearance before PSE&G will work at the mast — a few days, not weeks, but it has to be scheduled rather than assumed, so we look at the drop during the assessment.
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Electrician FAQs — Nutley, 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 Nutley 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 Nutley jobs.
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Need an electrician in Nutley?
Send us photos or hop on a short video call — most Nutley jobs can be quoted without a truck roll. Written price, permit included, nearly 50 years of doing this work here.