Licensed & insured
AL #06957
Mon–Sat 8am–5pm
Licensed & insured
AL #06957
Mon–Sat 8am–5pm
Aluminum branch circuits, knob-and-tube, and ungrounded two-prong outlets. Three different eras of wiring, three different problems, all still live in houses around here.
Licensed & Insured
AL #06957
No Deposit Ever
You pay when the job is done.
2-Hour Window
Late? The $95 diagnostic fee is on us.
32 Years Experience
Master Electrician
Used in houses built roughly 1965 to 1975, which covers a large share of West Mobile and Tillmans Corner. The wire itself isn’t the problem — it’s the connections. Aluminum expands, contracts and oxidizes differently from copper, so terminations loosen over decades and heat up. Warm switch plates, flickering, and a faint hot-plastic smell are the classic signs.
There are two legitimate fixes. A full rewire in copper is the permanent one. Where that isn’t practical, approved connectors applied at every device and junction is the accepted remediation. What isn’t acceptable is a wire nut and hope we see that constantly and it’s worse than doing nothing, because it looks addressed.
Pre-1950s, so mostly Midtown, Oakleigh and the older streets in Saraland. It’s ungrounded, the insulation is usually brittle, and it was never designed to be buried in modern attic insulation. Most of what we find has been spliced into at some point by someone with more confidence than training. Insurers are increasingly firm about it.
Ungrounded receptacles throughout the house. The cheap fix swapping in three-prong outlets with no ground behind them is both illegal and genuinely dangerous, because every surge protector you plug in afterwards is doing nothing at all. The correct answers are a rewire, a proper ground run, or GFCI protection with the required labeling. We’ll explain which applies room by room.
Open-wall work runs $6 to $7 a square foot — that’s a new build, or a renovation gutted back to the studs, where we can get at everything before the sheetrock goes on.
Rewiring a finished house is a different job and it’s quoted after a walkthrough. Fishing cable through closed walls, working around what’s already there, and putting things back is most of the cost, and it varies enormously between two houses that look identical from the street. Anyone who quotes that over the phone is guessing.
Permits are included in the quoted price either way, and we don’t take a deposit.
A whole-house rewire is disruptive and expensive, and plenty of houses don’t need one. Often the kitchen, bathrooms and a couple of failing runs are the real problem while the rest is sound. We’d rather scope that accurately than sell you the biggest version of the job.
$6–$7
Per sq ft, open walls
New build or gutted renovation. Rewiring a finished house is a different job and is quoted after a walkthrough. Permits included, no deposit taken.
Honest answer: significantly. Access means opening walls and ceilings in places, and we work room by room to keep the house livable. We’ll walk you through exactly what gets opened before you commit, and we don’t patch drywall we’ll tell you who does.
No. Without a ground behind it, a three-prong outlet gives you a place to plug in protected equipment that has no protection at all. It’s a code violation and it shows up on every home inspection. The legal alternative is GFCI protection with the correct labeling.
Not on its own. It’s a known condition with a known remediation cost. Get it scoped properly and it becomes a negotiating number rather than a reason to walk.
Yes. We pull the permit and meet the inspector. You get the paperwork, which matters when you sell.
Breakers that trip, outlets that quit, lights that flicker.
100-amp panels, fuse boxes and recalled brands replaced properly.
Aluminum branch wiring, knob-and-tube and two-prong outlets.
Dedicated circuits, dryer and range outlets, hot tub circuits.
Panel-mounted protection against storm and grid surges.
Sizing, permitting, transfer switch and start-up.
Level 2 chargers on a properly sized dedicated circuit.
Swapped out for $150, fixture supplied by you or by us.
Swapped out for $150, fixture supplied by you or by us.
If it is not on this list, call and we will tell you straight, or point you to someone who does it.
