Electrical Wiring and Rewiring in Tulsa and Broken Arrow

Electrical rewiring and wiring repair in Tulsa and Broken Arrow

Wiring is the part of your electrical system you never see, and the part that causes most of the trouble. Loose connections in outlet boxes, too many devices tied onto one circuit, splices buried in a wall without a box, cloth-covered wire that has gone brittle: that is what our journeymen find when they open things up. Hot Shot Electric Service Co. handles electrical rewiring in Tulsa, Broken Arrow and the surrounding towns, from repairing a single bad run to rewiring an older home.

What we find inside the walls

• Loose wires in outlet and switch boxes, often with too many connections on one device
• Splices made without a junction box or a proper connector
• Ungrounded two-prong circuits in older homes
• Aluminum branch wiring with connections that have loosened over time
• Wiring added by a previous owner or a handyman without a permit
• Circuits overloaded by the way the house is used now

One customer called because the only room without power was her daughter's. When the crew opened the boxes, they found loose wire and overloaded connections throughout. In her words:

Daughter room was the only room with no power in her room. I called this company and they sent someome the same day. They came by and gave me a quote. I agreed and had them do the job and they found major problems and they pointed them out showing me the risk and the possibility of the house catching fire. We had a lot of lose wire in the outlet boxes and switches with a lot of connections over loading the outlet and switches. This company saved us from a major problem that could have easily been a lost of a home or life. Thanks to them for the help and the professionalism they showed through the process. If you hear popping in your outles when you walk by or something not working it doesn't hurt to have someone check. New builds definitely check because some builders are cutting corners as we all know and don't care onece they sale you a home it's out of their hands. I hope this review saves you or helps.

Wiring repair versus rewiring

Not every old house needs to be rewired. Many need targeted repair: remaking connections, adding boxes where splices were buried, splitting overloaded circuits and replacing worn devices. Rewiring is the right call when the wire itself is failing, when walls are open for a remodel anyway, or when the existing wiring cannot safely serve the house. We will show you what we found and price both paths when both are reasonable.

New circuits for remodels, shops and appliances

Wiring work is also how a house keeps up with the way you live. We add dedicated circuits for kitchens, freezers, window units, home offices and workshops, and run power to detached garages and shops. Customers have had us wire shops and garages for compressors and freezers, and add outlets in porch ceilings and at mantel level. Remodel wiring is planned with your contractor before the drywall goes up, so outlets, lights and switches land where you will actually use them. See kitchen lighting and remodel electrical for kitchen projects.

Older Tulsa and Broken Arrow homes

Homes from the 1950s through the 1970s are common across Tulsa and older parts of Broken Arrow. They often have ungrounded circuits, small panels and, in the 1965 to 1975 range, aluminum branch wiring. Two-prong outlets cannot simply be swapped for three-prong ones without a ground. The code-compliant options are a new grounded circuit or GFCI protection labeled for no equipment ground. For aluminum circuits, see aluminum wiring repair.

How a rewiring job runs

1. A journeyman walks the house, tests circuits and opens representative boxes to see what is really there.
2. You get a written scope and price, room by room where that helps.
3. We pull permits where the city requires them.
4. Work is done in sections so most of the house keeps power while we work.
5. Circuits are labeled at the panel, tested and inspected, and we clean up each day.

If the panel cannot carry the new circuits, we will tell you up front and price an electrical panel upgrade alongside the wiring.

Permits, inspections and paperwork

Rewiring and new circuits generally require a permit in Broken Arrow, Tulsa and the surrounding cities. We pull it, schedule the inspection, and make sure the work is open for the inspector before the walls close. Permitted work protects you twice: an inspector has checked it, and you have a record when you insure or sell the house. When we find wiring a previous owner added without a permit, we tell you and bring it up to code as part of the repair rather than building on top of it.

Grounding older homes

Many houses built before the 1960s have no equipment ground on their circuits at all. Grounding is what gives a fault a safe path back to the panel instead of through a person or an appliance's case. When we rewire, every new circuit gets a ground. When a full rewire is not in the plan, we can still add grounded circuits for the places that matter most, like kitchens, bathrooms, offices and laundry rooms, and protect the rest with GFCI devices.

Licensed work, inspected work

Wiring is where shortcuts hide, because the work disappears behind drywall. Every job we do is run by a licensed journeyman under Oklahoma electrical contractor license #26574, and apprentices only work alongside a journeyman. Permitted work is inspected by the city, which protects you when you insure or sell the house.