Old Wiring Out.
Modern Safety In.

Whole-house rewiring replaces all the electrical wiring hidden inside your walls, attic, and crawlspace. This includes the branch circuit wires running from your panel to every outlet, switch, and fixture in the home. Modern rewiring uses NM-B (Romex) copper cable rated for current loads, with dedicated circuits for high-draw appliances and AFCI/GFCI protection where code requires it.

Three scenarios demand rewiring: (1) Your home has knob-and-tube wiring (pre-1940s) — no ground wire, degraded fabric insulation, and no capacity for modern loads. (2) Your home has aluminum branch wiring (1965–1973) — aluminum expands and contracts more than copper, loosening connections and creating hot spots. Homes with aluminum wiring are 55 times more likely to develop fire hazard conditions. (3) Major renovation of any older home — once you open walls, code requires updated wiring.

A rewire is scoped off access, not square footage alone. A house with a walkable attic and a full crawlspace lets us fish most runs without opening walls. A two-story on a slab with finished ceilings means cutting, patching, and painting — and wall repair is a real line item on a rewire, not a rounding error. Circuit count drives it too: every new circuit lands under current AFCI and GFCI rules, and each high-draw appliance gets its own home run. Plaster and lath, balloon framing, blown-in insulation, and knob-and-tube spliced inside walls with no junction boxes all slow the pull down, and you don't know which of those you have until we open the first bay. Plan on 3–7 days for the wiring itself, plus drywall and paint time behind it — we sequence our in-house drywall team so the two phases don't sit waiting on each other. The rough-in inspection has to pass before anything gets closed up, so that inspector visit sits in the middle of your schedule, not at the end — and that inspector works for whatever county or municipality your house sits in. We're licensed in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia and permit the job locally either way, but the office we're dealing with sets the turnaround, so we build their calendar into yours from the start.

Heat and humidity accelerate insulation breakdown in older wiring, and we have plenty of both. Pre-1975 housing stock is everywhere in this part of the country — the older neighborhoods around Greenville and Easley, the mill villages, the mountain cabins over the North Carolina line — and a lot of it is still running its original 50-year-old wire. Beyond safety, insurance companies are increasingly refusing to write policies on homes with knob-and-tube or aluminum wiring. A rewire protects your family, satisfies insurers, and dramatically increases your home's value.