New Construction
Home Addition Electrical Upgrades
Service and panel capacity for square footage you are adding.
What the job involves
Service and panel capacity for square footage you are adding. Materials matter here. The commodity version of this part is where most of the callbacks in this trade come from.
The process is the same every time, which is what keeps it predictable. The inspection side of this trips people up more than the wiring does, especially on anything touching the service.
How we handle it
- Plan reviewed and load calculated before rough in
- Rough in coordinated with the other trades
- Inspections staged so nothing waits on us
- Trim finished and every circuit tested at completion
Doing this in the White Mountains
Ponderosa country means trees near lines and squirrels in soffits, and both show up as electrical problems eventually.
Elevation, weather, and the age of the housing stock all change how this work goes here compared with a valley city. Equipment ages faster in this sun, monsoon surge is a real load on the system, and a lot of these houses were built as seasonal property and are now carrying full-time demand.
The work gets documented, labeled, and left clean enough that the next electrician can read it.
Where the panel goes and why it matters
Panel location gets decided fast on most builds and lived with for the life of the house. The constraints are real: working clearance in front that cannot be filled with shelving, no placement in a clothes closet or over a stairway, and a run from the meter that is as short as the layout allows.
Beyond the rules, put it where somebody will actually go. A panel in a finished basement or a utility room is something a homeowner will open. A panel behind a water heater in a crawlspace is one they will never look at and one we will charge more to work in.
Garage walls are a common and good answer up here, with the caveat that the space in front stays clear of the thing everybody wants to park there.
Rough-in is where the decisions get locked
The electrical rough-in happens after framing and before insulation, and it is the moment nearly every decision becomes permanent or expensive. Where the outlets go, how many circuits the kitchen gets, whether the garage is ready for a charger later.
Adding capacity at rough-in is cheap because the walls are open. A spare conduit to the garage, an extra circuit to the panel, a conductor for a future fan, all close to free now and all significant work afterward.
This is the stage to think two owners ahead rather than to the day you move in.
Temporary power before anything else
The first electrical work on any build is the temporary service, and it is worth doing properly rather than as an afterthought. Framers, roofers, and mechanical crews are all going to run tools off it for months, frequently in weather.
That means a pole set where it will not be in the way of the excavation or the driveway, protection sized for what the trades will actually plug in, and receptacles with ground fault protection because everything on a construction site is damp and grounded.
It also means coordinating with the utility early. Getting temporary power to a lot can take longer than people plan for, and a framing crew waiting on electricity is an expensive kind of delay.
What you get
- LicensedC-11 #192532 and R-11 #192533
- PriceFirm, before the work starts
- Who shows upThe person who quoted it
- PermitsHandled where the job needs them
- AfterLabeled, documented, and cleaned up
The breaker is not the problem. The breaker is the thing telling you there is a problem.
Temporary power before anything else
The first electrical work on any build is the temporary service, and it is worth doing properly rather than as an afterthought. Framers, roofers, and mechanical crews are all going to run tools off it for months, frequently in weather.
That means a pole set where it will not be in the way of the excavation or the driveway, protection sized for what the trades will actually plug in, and receptacles with ground fault protection because everything on a construction site is damp and grounded.
It also means coordinating with the utility early. Getting temporary power to a lot can take longer than people plan for, and a framing crew waiting on electricity is an expensive kind of delay.
Stubs and spares while the walls are open
The cheapest capacity a house will ever have is the capacity added before the drywall. An empty conduit from the panel to the attic, another to the garage wall, and one to whichever exterior wall faces the future shop or hot tub cost almost nothing in an open frame.
The same applies to the panel itself. Specifying more spaces than the load calculation demands, and leaving those spaces genuinely empty rather than filling them with tandem breakers, is what keeps the next addition from becoming a service upgrade.
Ten years from now somebody wants a charger, a mini split in the bonus room, or a well house heater. Every one of those is a straightforward job in a house that was stubbed for it and a wall-opening job in one that was not.
Questions we get
How do I know if I have knob and tube?
It shows as ceramic knobs and tubes in the attic or basement with cloth covered conductors. Most houses that had it are partially converted already.
Can we live in the house during a rewire?
Usually yes. We sequence it so the house keeps power throughout, working through it a section at a time.
Do you have to open all my walls?
No. We fish where the framing allows and open only where there is no route. Minimizing patching is most of the skill in a rewire.
What areas do you cover?
Pinetop-Lakeside and about forty miles out from there, which covers most of Navajo County and the western side of Apache County.
Do you give a price before you start?
Yes. You get a firm price before any work begins, and the person who quoted it is the person doing the job.
Towns we cover
Based in Pinetop-Lakeside, covering about forty miles out across Navajo County and the western side of Apache County.
- Show LowOur second base. Panel work and service upgrades on the newer builds off Deuce of Clubs.
- Pinetop-LakesideHome ground. Cabin rewires, fixture work at cathedral-ceiling height, and same-week calls.
- SnowflakeLonger runs out to property on acreage, where the well pump and the house share one panel.
- TaylorOlder service entrances that predate the current code, and the corrections that go with them.
- Heber-OvergaardHeavy second-home territory. Freeze-season calls on places that sat empty since fall.
- LindenBetween Show Low and Pinetop. Remodel wiring and additions on established lots.
- GreerHighest elevation we cover. Generator and backup work for a road that closes in weather.
- ConchoWide-open lots on the Apache County side, often with a long feed from the meter to the house.
- OvergaardPonderosa country. Fixture and circuit work in cabins built across four decades.
- LakesideOlder lakefront cabins where the original wiring was never meant for today’s load.
- PinetopThe cabin core. Small jobs, one outlet or one switch, are most of what we do here.
- White Mountain LakeSeasonal places that need a look before the family arrives and after they leave.
Get it handled
Call (928) 358-2546 or send a message and we will work out what the job actually is.
See recent work or send the details and we will come look.