Fire Protection Spcalsts LLC.

The agency list is the clearest picture of the work. It includes the Spokane Fire Department, the City of Spokane, Spokane Transit Authority, Spokane School District 81, Central Valley School District, Community Colleges of Spokane and Washington State University. It also reaches well past Spokane County, to the public utility districts of Douglas, Chelan, Grant and Benton counties and the state Department of Enterprise Services. Apprentices have worked on its public jobs. The state lists Erik Dowling, Robert Baker and Steve Farnsworth as principals since 1999. This is a small crew that takes work through referrals, repeat customers and the general contractors it subs for, not through consumer advertising. It fits best on municipal, utility, school or fire-station projects where prevailing-wage experience matters. Homeowners planning a kitchen remodel or a new house build will likely be better served by a residential builder, since this firm's history centers on institutional and utility contracts. Spokane's building stock spans brick and masonry schools and civic buildings from the early 1900s through steel-and-concrete facilities put up in Spokane Valley and Liberty Lake in recent decades. Work in the older buildings often means opening walls and ceilings that hold plaster, old wiring and earlier fire and life-safety systems that have to be tied into or replaced. Newer commercial buildings tend to be more predictable to work in. Either way, ask a contractor which building eras they've worked in and how they've handled existing systems before.