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Commercial Lighting in Washington, DC — Schmidt's Electrical

Lighting shapes how customers see your business and how well employees work. Schmidt's Electrical installs and upgrades commercial lighting for offices, retail stores, warehouses, and restaurants across Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia — from a single flickering fixture to a building-wide relight planned around your operating hours.

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Lighting for Every Commercial Space

Different spaces have different needs. Offices need even, glare-free light; retail spaces need accent lighting that makes products stand out; warehouses need bright, durable high-bay fixtures.

  • Troffers and panel lights for offices
  • Track and accent lighting for retail
  • High-bay fixtures for warehouses
  • Exterior, façade, and parking lighting
  • Lighting controls, sensors, and timers
  • Restaurant and hospitality lighting

Controls That Cut Waste

Lights that run when nobody's there are the most common energy waste in commercial buildings. Occupancy sensors, daylight harvesting, and scheduled controls can trim lighting energy substantially without touching a single fixture.

We install and program controls to match how your space is actually used — conference rooms on vacancy sensors, storage areas on motion, sales floors on scheduled scenes. A control system nobody tuned is worse than none, so we finish every controls job by walking the space with you and adjusting settings on the spot.

Energy and Maintenance Savings

Modern fixtures and controls can lower energy use and reduce how often lamps need to be replaced. We'll recommend upgrades that make sense for your hours of operation and space.

Work can be scheduled after hours to keep your business running. For phased relights, we work section by section so no floor goes dark at once.

Talk to a Commercial Electrician

Whether you're relighting one floor or a whole building, call (202) 521-4835 for a site visit and quote. We'll walk the space, review what's there, and give you options ranked by cost and payoff — not a one-size catalog pitch.

Relighting a Building in Phases

A full relight doesn’t have to happen in one disruptive project. We commonly phase commercial lighting work by floor or by zone, completing one area at a time so the business keeps running and the budget spreads across quarters.

Phasing works best with a plan from the start: a fixture schedule for the whole building, a controls approach that works whether a zone is old or new, and an agreed sequence. Without that plan, phased projects drift — two fixture generations coexist, controls behave differently by floor, and maintenance becomes guesswork.

If you’re managing a property with a multi-year lighting budget, ask us about a phased relight plan. It turns a large capital ask into a predictable line item.

We also audit controls during a relight, because fixtures and controls age differently. Occupancy sensors with worn-out logic, timeclocks nobody has reset since the building changed hands, and dimming systems that were never commissioned all waste energy invisibly. Updating the controls while we’re already on the ladder is one of the best-value additions to a lighting project — the labor is mostly already scheduled, and the savings start the first month.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you work after business hours?

Yes. We can schedule commercial lighting work outside your operating hours.

Do you install lighting controls?

Yes. We install occupancy sensors, daylight sensors, timers, and networked controls.

What's the difference between this and LED lighting?

This page covers all commercial lighting. Our commercial LED page focuses on LED retrofits and conversions.

Can you fix one fixture, or do you only do large projects?

We handle both. A single failed fixture gets the same quality of service as a full relight.

Do you dispose of old fixtures and lamps?

We remove old components from the site as part of the job and follow applicable disposal requirements for lamps and ballasts.

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