Rewiring
Whole-Home Rewiring in Lake Forest Park
A logistics problem as much as an electrical one, and the logistics get planned first.
When patching stops being worth it
Not every older house here needs rewiring and we will say so. The ones that do have usually reached a particular point: ungrounded circuits through most of the house, insulation gone brittle, and too many outlets hanging off one tired run. Crawl spaces matter more here than most places. Under heavy shade they stay damp, and cable that has spent fifty years in that is in worse condition than the same cable in a dry attic. We look before quoting rather than after. Everything we install carries our two-year workmanship warranty.
What is included
A survey before a figure
Attic and crawl space opened and looked at. A rewire priced from the living room is a guess.
A staged plan in writing
Phases, with what loses power when and for how long.
New branch circuits throughout
Properly grounded runs at the circuit count a modern household needs.
Permit, inspection and labelling
Filed and inspected as phases complete, and a readable panel at the end.
Signs it is due
Two-prong outlets through the house
The clearest sign the branch wiring predates what you plug in.
Brittle or damp cable below the floor
Common under heavy canopy, and past the point of patching single runs.
Trips across unrelated rooms
Usually too much sharing too few circuits rather than one fault.
You are redecorating anyway
If walls are opening for other reasons the marginal cost drops sharply.
How the work runs
Survey
Attic, crawl space, panel and a room-by-room walk, then a written scope.
Stage it
Phases and outage windows agreed around your week.
Run the circuits
Phase by phase, house livable throughout.
Inspect and finish
Inspection as phases complete, patching coordinated, panel labelled.
Questions about this work
Do we have to move out?
Almost never. Staging keeps power on outside agreed windows.
How much wall opens?
Less than people fear. Where finished wall must open we show you where and why first.
Can we do it in parts?
Yes. Each phase is complete and inspected in itself.
Start with the survey
A real look at what is in the walls and under the floor. It costs nothing.