Protect Everything Plugged
Into Your Home

A whole-house surge protector installs at your main electrical panel and absorbs voltage spikes before they reach your devices. A Type 2 device — the standard residential option — stops both external surges (lightning, utility switching) and internal ones (AC compressor cycling, motor startup), and those internal spikes are the ones quietly shortening the life of your electronics day after day. The install is short and the variables are few: whether your panel has a free two-pole breaker slot or the device has to go in a box beside the enclosure, and whether your grounding and bonding are actually intact, because a surge protector is only as good as its path to ground. It is the smallest device in the panel standing in front of the most equipment in the house.

GFCI (Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupter) outlets detect current leaking to ground — the kind that happens when electricity flows through you. Required by code near water: bathrooms, kitchens, garages, exteriors, laundry rooms. AFCI (Arc-Fault Circuit Interrupter) breakers detect dangerous arcing in wires — the sparking that causes electrical fires. Current NEC code requires AFCI protection in virtually every living space. Both are small devices with outsized consequences — and worth knowing before you plan any electrical work: once you touch a circuit under permit, code brings them along whether you budgeted for them or not. That is the single most common surprise on an otherwise simple job. Which NEC edition you're held to is the part people miss. South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia each adopt and amend the code on their own schedule, so the exact locations that require GFCI or AFCI can differ across a state line. We're licensed in all three and we check what your inspector is actually enforcing before we write the scope.

Interconnected hardwired smoke detectors (when one triggers, all alarm) are code-required in all bedrooms and hallways. Carbon monoxide detectors are required on every level of a home with gas appliances, fireplaces, or attached garages. We install combination smoke/CO units with 10-year sealed batteries and hardwired interconnection — the highest level of life-safety detection available for residential homes.

A comprehensive electrical inspection checks your panel condition, wiring type and age, grounding system, GFCI/AFCI protection, smoke detector placement, outlet and switch condition, and code compliance. Recommended every 3–5 years for general maintenance, immediately when buying or selling a home, and before any major renovation. It runs a couple of hours on site and ends in a written report. Scope moves with home size, how many panels and subpanels there are, and how much of the wiring is actually reachable — a full crawlspace and a walkable attic tell us a great deal more than a slab with finished ceilings. It is also the one item on this page that reliably tells you which of the others you actually need.