Gepford Welding.

The state's workers'-comp record puts Gepford Welding in a single risk class: electrical wiring in buildings and floodlight installation. That is a narrower and more accurate picture than the general contractor label suggests. The public work spans city property, WSU's Spokane campus and the regional educational services district, with apprentices on the jobs, which is the kind of prevailing-wage work public agencies put out for lighting and wiring. The state lists Dorothy Gepford as a principal since 2006 and Ronald Gepford since 2012. Jobs reach residential, commercial and public buildings, within about 25 miles of Spokane. Gepford Welding gets its work through referrals, repeat customers and other contractors rather than advertising, and a good share of it comes as a sub to general contractors. That suits a property manager, school or business that needs exterior floodlighting or building wiring handled by an outfit with a long local history. A homeowner planning a new house or a whole-home remodel will want a full-service general contractor to run the project, with an electrical firm like this one brought in for the wiring. On a Spokane home, the repair-or-replace question for outdoor lighting usually comes down to the fixture and the circuit behind it. A failed floodlight on sound wiring is often a simple fixture swap, and modern LED units are worth considering when you do it. Older homes in Spokane's established neighborhoods can have aging or undersized wiring, and freeze-thaw cycles are hard on exterior boxes and connections, so corrosion, flicker or repeated failures point toward replacing the run rather than the bulb. Ask whoever you hire to check the circuit, not just the light.