Home renovations & rewiring

Renovation wiring is where corners get cut. We’ve opened plenty of walls and found buried junction boxes and mystery switches, so we plan the circuits up front and run clean rough-ins that pass inspection the first time. Your drywaller and your inspector both end up happy with the result.

What’s included

• Complete and partial rewires, including knob-and-tube and aluminum wiring remediation
• Kitchen and bathroom circuits: counter plugs, GFCI/AFCI protection, dedicated appliance runs
• Basement suites, including separate metering and suite panels
• Custom homes and new builds: full wiring from the plans, rough-in through final trim
• Additions, garages, and workshops: subpanels, heaters, welders, compressors
• Coordination with your GC, or straight with you if you’re running the job

Renovations, one room or the whole house

Most of our renovation work is existing homes: a kitchen or bathroom taken back to studs, a basement turned into a suite, an addition that needs its own circuits. Kitchens are the busiest of these, with counter-plug spacing to code, GFCI and AFCI protection, and dedicated runs for the range, oven, and dishwasher. Basement suites usually need their own panel and often separate metering. Whatever the room, we plan the circuits before the walls close so the rough-in passes the first time and nobody’s waiting on us to hang drywall.

Custom homes and new construction

We wire custom homes and new builds from the panel out, working off your electrical drawings or building the layout with you if they don’t exist yet. That covers the service and panel, every rough-in, the low-voltage runs for data, security cameras, and speakers, and a finish that matches the level of the house.

On a custom build the electrical decides a lot of the daily livability, so we walk the plan with you before rough-in: where the switches land, how the kitchen and island get fed, lighting zones room by room, and EV-ready provisioning in the garage. Sorting that out on paper costs a fraction of moving it once the drywall is up.

How it works

1. Plan review. We price from your drawings, or walk the site with you and build the scope together.
2. Rough-in. Boxes, home runs, and panel work, inspected before insulation goes in.
3. Finish. Devices, fixtures, panel labelling, and final inspection.

Common questions

Do you wire custom homes and new builds?

Yes, from the panel out. We wire new construction and custom homes start to finish, working off your plans or helping set the electrical layout before rough-in. It’s a different job than a service call, and we scope and price it as one.

Can you work from an architect’s or designer’s plans?

Yes. We price and rough-in straight from drawings, and flag anything that won’t work or isn’t to code before it’s built rather than after. If you don’t have electrical drawings yet, we’ll build the layout with you.

What’s involved in wiring a kitchen renovation?

More than it looks. Counter plugs at code spacing, GFCI and AFCI protection, and dedicated circuits for the range, oven, dishwasher, and often a microwave and disposal. We plan it around your layout so nothing trips when the kettle and toaster run at once.

My house has knob-and-tube. Do I have to replace all of it?

Not necessarily all at once. We can isolate and replace it in stages, starting with circuits that are overloaded or buried in insulation. Insurers increasingly want it gone, though. We’ll map what you have so you can decide.

Can you work with my contractor’s schedule?

Yes. Rough-in and finish are scheduled around the other trades, and we show up when we say we will. Ask any GC we’ve worked with.

Is aluminum wiring dangerous?

It’s manageable, but connections need to be pigtailed or terminated with rated devices. We remediate aluminum branch circuits without a full rewire where the wiring is otherwise sound.