Photograph what disappears
If it goes behind plaster, there is a picture of it in your file first.
One house at a time, for twenty years
Heritage Wire runs a single rewire crew. It caps what we can earn and it is why the work looks the same in every house we finish.
Ruth Kalyniuk apprenticed on new subdivisions and found it deadening — hundreds of identical rough-ins in houses nobody had lived in yet. She moved to service work in Historic District in 2006 and found the opposite: every wall hid a different decade's improvisation.
Heritage Wire was built for those houses. One crew, one project at a time, and a rule that no run gets covered without a photograph. The photo record started as a way to settle arguments with insurers and became the thing clients mention most.
Three hundred and forty houses later we still turn work away in autumn rather than putting a second crew of strangers into somebody's hundred-year-old walls.
How Heritage Wire grew
2006
Ruth leaves new construction for service work in Historic District.
2011
First full heritage rewire; the photograph-before-covering rule is written down.
2018
Insurer documentation becomes a standing service after a client nearly lost coverage.
2026
340 houses, still one crew at a time.
340
Houses rewired
20 yrs
On character homes
1
Rewire crew at a time
4.9★
Across 190 reviews
What we hold ourselves to
One crew, one house
The same three people for the whole project. It costs us volume and it is why the work is consistent.
Say when to leave it
If the 1980s rewire upstairs was done properly, we say so, standing in your basement with a quote in hand.
The crew in your house
Three on the crew, all of whom have worked in houses older than their grandparents.
Ruth Kalyniuk
Founder & master electrician
Twenty-four years in the trade, twenty of them in pre-war your city houses.
Émile Charette
Journeyperson
Runs the survey visits. Can date a wiring run from a photograph faster than anyone here.
Sasha Delorme
Apprentice & finishing
Fourth-year apprentice, and the reason the plaster patches look like nothing happened.
Photographed before it is covered
Every concealed run is photographed and the set emailed to you before the plaster goes back. If a connection we made ever fails, we repair it and make good the finish — two years on a rewire, five when the panel is part of the same project.
Reviews
From owners of old houses
4.9 from 190 reviews · 340 houses rewired since 2006
“1908 house, knob-and-tube in three rooms and a fuse panel. Four and a half weeks, power every night, and the photographs of every run are now in the file I will hand the next owner.”
“They talked me out of rewiring the second floor — showed me photographs proving it had been done properly in the 1980s. That honesty cost them about five thousand dollars of work.”
“Our insurer wanted knob-and-tube gone before renewal. Heritage Wire did the work and wrote the letter in the exact form the underwriter wanted. No follow-up questions at all.”
Find out what is behind the plaster before your insurer does
Two hours, every accessible run identified by era and material, a written plan that separates what must be done now from what can wait a decade, and photographs you keep.