Older West Houston wiring, sorted out.

A lot of West Houston was built in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s: Alief, Westchase, Briar Forest, Mission Bend and the streets around the Energy Corridor. Those houses are solid, but the wiring and panels in them are now forty to sixty years old.

That is where most of our West Houston work comes from. We replace worn-out and Federal Pacific panels, repair aluminum branch wiring, add grounded outlets and GFCI protection, and fix the code items that turn up when a house is sold.

West Houston is home ground. Our contractor license is registered to an address in Alief, and one of our two Google listings is on Westheimer.

The houses in West Houston

Homes built from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s are the ones most likely to have aluminum branch wiring, and many West Houston homes date from those years. The same era produced a lot of Federal Pacific panels. Both are worth checking if you have just bought a house or your insurer is asking questions.

What we keep an eye on here

West Houston gets the same lightning and storms as the rest of the city, and older homes often have no surge protection at all. Flooding is the other local concern. If water ever reached your panel or outlets, have them checked before you turn things back on.

Permits in West Houston

Inside the City of Houston, electrical work like a panel replacement needs a city permit pulled by a licensed contractor, followed by an inspection. We pull the permit under our license and handle the inspection.

What we do in West Houston

• Breaker panels and service upgrades. New and replacement breaker panels, sub panels, disconnects and grounding, plus a look at the old Federal Pacific panels that still turn up in Houston homes.
• Repairs, outlets and new circuits. Dead outlets, tripping breakers, GFCIs, new circuits, appliance wiring, smoke detectors and aluminum wiring repairs.
• Whole-house surge protection. A surge protector at the panel that guards everything in the house, including hardwired equipment that a plug-in strip can't protect.

Around West Houston

We work around Alief, Westchase, Briar Forest, Mission Bend, the Energy Corridor and Westheimer Road, and in Sugar Land and Katy next door.