Knob-and-tube. Cloth insulation. Aluminum branch circuits. The wiring in your 1920s Crockett bungalow or 1940s Richmond Annex tract was code in its day — and it is decades past its life. We pull it out and rewire, room by room, without gutting the house.
Crockett, Point Richmond, the Richmond Annex, and older Albany and El Cerrito neighborhoods have housing stock 70–100 years old — knob-and-tube, cloth romex, aluminum branch circuits. None of it is still being made and most of it is no longer insurable.
Rewiring an old house is part craft, part forensic work. We open as little as possible, fish through existing cavities, and patch what we open. Every phase on permit, inspected, signed off — paperwork for the carrier and the next buyer.
We open a few outlets and switch boxes to identify what is actually in the walls. We map the existing circuits, count outlets, and identify accessible attic and crawlspace runs.
Line-item quote with the rewire scope broken into phases. You can do the whole house at once or stage it across rooms or floors.
Electrical permit pulled with the city or county. Required for any rewire that changes circuits or adds new wiring.
We work room by room or zone by zone. Each phase pulls new wire, lands new outlets and switches, and ties into a new sub-section of the panel.
After each phase the inspector walks the open work before any patching.
We patch every wall opening, texture-match where we can, and prime for paint. (Final paint is on you or your painter.)
After all phases are complete, the inspector signs off the full permit.
Includes the main panel swap, a subpanel, new romex throughout the occupied space, new outlets and switches, modern grounding, permit, and rough + final inspection. Does NOT include drywall patch, paint, or flooring restoration — those are separate trades.
Prices do NOT include drywall patch, paint, or flooring. Those are separate trades.
In most cases, no. We fish new wire through existing wall and ceiling cavities, opening as few small access holes as possible. Lath-and-plaster houses are more delicate but usually doable without major demolition.
Yes for phased rewires — we work one zone at a time and you keep power to the rest of the house. For full whole-house single-phase rewires, expect 1–3 days of partial power loss while we cut over.
In our experience, yes — when the work is permitted and inspected. We give you the closed permit and inspection paperwork to send to your carrier.
Yes. We patch every opening we make, including taping and texturing. Final paint is on you or your painter — we do not paint.
No. Current code requires that abandoned wiring be removed or disconnected at the source. Leaving live K&T in the walls is a fire risk and a disclosure liability.
Free walk-through. Written line-item quote the same day. Every job on permit under CSLB #1062166.
