Six services for pre-war your city houses, each with what it costs and what it deliberately leaves alone.
What we do
Nearly everything here is invisible when it is finished, which is exactly why we photograph it. You should be able to see what you paid for after the plaster goes back.
Three to five weeks in an occupied house, sequenced so you never lose power overnight. We fish through plaster where the run allows and cut neat access where it does not, then photograph every concealed run and patch to paint-ready.
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$14,500
typical 1.5-storey
Almost every heritage rewire ends at the panel. We replace the fuse box, upgrade the service where the load calculation calls for it, and coordinate the your local utility disconnect around your rewire schedule rather than as a separate project.
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$3,800
with rewire
An adapter does not make a two-prong outlet grounded, and a three-prong receptacle on an ungrounded circuit is worse than the two-prong it replaced. We run proper grounded circuits, or fit GFCI protection and label it honestly where a rewire is not yet possible.
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$165
per circuit
Your 1920s pendants can usually be rewired with modern cloth-covered cable and made safe without losing what makes them worth keeping. We tell you plainly when a fixture is beyond saving and should be reproduced instead.
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$145
per fixture
Old your city basements accumulate junction boxes, open splices and circuits that go nowhere. We trace and map everything, remove what is dead, box what must stay, and hand you a drawing of what is actually there.
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$3,200
typical
Insurers and buyers ask specific questions about knob-and-tube, fuse panels and aluminum. We inspect, photograph and answer those questions in the format they expect — including when the honest answer is that the house is fine.
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$390
per report
Paint, plaster restoration and asbestos abatement each belong to a licensed trade of their own. We coordinate and take nothing for it.
These are only inexpensive while access already exists. We list them at survey time so you decide once, not twice.
Whole-home surge protection
Type 2 device at the panel.
+$540
Additional circuit
Priced per circuit during the rewire.
+$165
Smoke & CO interconnect
Hardwired and linked.
+$180 per device
Exterior receptacle
GFCI, in-use cover, sealed penetration.
+$310
As-built drawing set
A drawn record for the next owner.
+$340
Attic insulation reinstatement
Coordinated with an insulation trade.
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How it works
Two hours. Every accessible run identified by era and material, photographed and written up.
A fixed price with the sequence, the access cuts and the patch standard written down.
Three to five weeks. Power on every night, dust walls up, one crew, the same faces.
Runs photographed, inspection booked, walls patched to paint-ready, drawing handed over.
Reviews
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.”
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.