The Wiring Behind Hood County's Walls
Wiring is the one part of a house nobody sees and everybody depends on. Around Granbury, what's behind the drywall spans seventy years of building styles: 1950s two-wire circuits with no ground in the older neighborhoods near the square, aluminum branch wiring in homes from the late '60s and '70s, and additions on lake houses wired by whoever owned the place that decade. Some of it is fine. Some of it is quietly overloaded, spliced outside of boxes, or chewed by attic squirrels — and you won't know which until someone qualified actually looks.
Wiring Services We Provide
- Whole-home rewiring — replacing outdated or unsafe wiring with new copper, staged room by room so you can keep living in the house.
- Aluminum wiring remediation — CPSC-recognized repairs (COPALUM or AlumiConn at every termination) or full replacement, with honest pricing for both.
- New circuits — dedicated runs for freezers, window units, medical equipment, well pumps, hot tubs, and kitchen appliances that keep tripping shared circuits.
- Shop, garage & barn wiring — subpanels, 240V equipment circuits, and proper underground feeds to outbuildings. This is horse-property country; we wire a lot of barns.
- Remodel & addition wiring — roughed in to code and coordinated with your contractor's schedule and inspections.
- Grounding upgrades — adding equipment grounds and GFCI protection to older two-wire homes.
- Smoke & CO detector circuits — hardwired, interconnected detectors where code requires them.
Signs Your Wiring Needs Attention
- Two-prong outlets throughout the house, or three-prong outlets that a tester shows aren't actually grounded.
- Breakers or fuses that blow when you run a vacuum and a window unit at once.
- Lights that dim on one side of the house, extension cords doing a circuit's job, or warm switch plates.
- Cloth-insulated or brittle wiring visible in the attic.
- An insurance or inspection report flagging knob-and-tube, aluminum, or ungrounded circuits.
How We Keep a Rewire Livable
The fear with rewiring is a gutted house. It doesn't work that way when it's planned well. We route through the attic and crawlspace wherever the structure allows, make small, deliberate access cuts instead of open trenches, and rewire in stages so bedrooms and the kitchen keep power while we work elsewhere. Every circuit ends up labeled at the panel, every splice in an accessible box, and every access hole patched or documented for your painter. Permits and inspections are handled by us, start to finish.
Rewiring and Your Insurance
If you've recently bought an older Granbury home, there's a decent chance your insurer has asked about the wiring — carriers have tightened up on aluminum and ungrounded systems across Texas. We provide the documentation insurers ask for after remediation or rewiring, which has saved more than one closing date. If a four-point inspection put a deadline on you, tell us; we'll work to it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to move out during a whole-home rewire?
Usually not. We rewire room by room, keep power on to the areas you're living in, and patch access holes as we go. Most families stay home for the entire project.
My home has aluminum wiring. Does it all have to come out?
Not necessarily. CPSC-recognized remediation using COPALUM or AlumiConn connectors at every termination is a legitimate, far less invasive alternative to full replacement. We'll quote both approaches so you can compare.
How disruptive is adding a new circuit?
For most single-circuit jobs — a freezer circuit, shop outlets, a hot tub feed — we're in and out in a day with minimal drywall disturbance, using attic and crawlspace routes where the house allows.
Is two-wire (ungrounded) wiring illegal?
Existing two-wire circuits aren't illegal, but they leave your electronics unprotected and limit what can be plugged in safely. Code-compliant options range from GFCI protection at outlets to running new grounded circuits — we'll walk you through both.