Electrical Wiring Services in St. Louis

Rewiring Older and Historic St. Louis Homes

St. Louis has an unusually large stock of homes from the late 1800s and early 1900s, especially in neighborhoods like Soulard, Lafayette Square, Benton Park, Compton Heights, and the Central West End, along with older sections of Webster Groves and Kirkwood. These homes were often wired decades before modern electrical demand existed, and many still carry some combination of knob-and-tube wiring, aluminum branch circuits, or a patchwork of updates made by different owners and electricians over the years.

• That patchwork is exactly what makes older-home rewiring different from a standard job. It's rarely one clean system to replace. It's usually several generations of wiring layered on top of each other, sometimes with a newer panel connected to older circuits that were never fully updated. Before any work begins, our rewiring pros in St. Louis trace the home's electrical history room by room so nothing gets missed or reconnected to wiring it shouldn't be tied to.
• Plaster walls and older construction methods common in these neighborhoods also call for a different approach than a newer build. We plan routing carefully to minimize the impact on original trim, plaster, and finishes, since those details are often part of what makes these homes worth preserving in the first place. The goal is a home that's fully safe and code-compliant on the inside, without losing the character that drew you to it in the first place.

Quality Garage Wiring Solutions in St. Louis

Garage wiring gets overlooked more than almost any other part of a home's electrical system, in part because garages were often an afterthought when many St. Louis-area homes were originally built. It's common to find a detached garage running off a single circuit shared between the lights and one or two outlets, with no dedicated power for anything beyond a garage door opener.

That setup falls short fast once a garage starts doing more than storing cars. A workshop with power tools, a chest freezer, a Level 2 EV charger, or even just a couple of space heaters in the winter can overload a single old circuit quickly. Code requires at least one dedicated 20-amp receptacle circuit for any garage with power, separate from the lighting circuit in most cases, and older garages frequently don't meet that standard.

Detached garages carry an extra layer of consideration. The feeder running from the house has to be sized and grounded correctly, and older detached garages, especially on properties with garages built or wired well before current code, sometimes lack proper grounding entirely. We evaluate the existing feeder, confirm what the garage actually needs based on how you use the space, and either add circuits or install a dedicated subpanel when a garage's workload calls for one. That's especially common now as more St. Louis homeowners want the garage to handle an EV charger alongside everything else already plugged in out there.

What a Whole-Home Rewire Actually Involves

A whole-home rewire in St. Louis isn't just swapping old wire for new. 

• It starts with an inspection of your entire electrical system, including the panel, every circuit, and how power is currently distributed room to room, so we understand exactly what we're replacing and why. 
• From there, we plan a route that gets new wiring where it needs to go with as little disruption to your walls and finishes as possible.
• We walk through the timeline and cost with you before anything starts, and for homes where a full rewire isn't necessary yet, we'll say so and recommend targeted circuit upgrades instead.

To learn more about our wiring services in St. Louis, contact our team online today.