The Electric Guys is a residential electrical outfit working out of Pittsburgh, covering roughly thirty-three miles in every direction from the city. That radius is not a marketing number — it is the distance we can reach, do a proper day's work, and get back without charging somebody for the drive. It takes in the whole of Allegheny County plus the closer edges of Westmoreland, Butler, Washington and Beaver.
What we actually do
Residential electrical work, top to bottom. Panel and service upgrades. Knob-and-tube and aluminium branch wiring. Whole-house rewires. Outlets, switches, GFCI and AFCI protection, surge protection at the panel. Recessed lighting and ceiling fans. Garage, basement and workshop circuits. Standby generators, transfer switches, EV chargers and hot tub circuits.
The common thread is that most of it happens in houses that were wired for a completely different century. Pittsburgh has some of the oldest housing stock in the country, and a very large share of the homes we walk into were built before anybody imagined a kitchen with a microwave, a dishwasher and an induction hob on the same floor — never mind a car charging in the driveway.
The $99, up front
A service call on a repair is $99, and you hear that number on the phone before anybody drives out. It covers coming to the house and finding the actual fault, which on an old Pittsburgh circuit is genuinely the hard part. What it does not do is turn into an open-ended hourly meter, and it does not create any obligation to say yes to the repair just because a van is already at the kerb.
Estimates on new work — a panel swap, a rewire, a generator, a charger — are free, and we do them Monday through Saturday, 9am to 5pm.
Why Saturday matters
Most of the bigger jobs in this trade mean the power goes off for a good part of the day. Swapping a service is not a twenty-minute job and it involves the utility. Being able to look at it, quote it and often do it on a Saturday is the difference between planning the work around your life and taking a day off for it.
Call it, or text it
The number on this site takes texts, and we would genuinely rather you used it. A photograph of the panel, the scorched receptacle, or the breaker that will not stay in tells us more in two seconds than five minutes of careful description. Send the picture, and you get a straight answer about whether it is a $99 diagnostic, a straightforward swap, or something that needs a proper look.
Honest about old houses
There is a particular kind of quote that gets handed to people in Lawrenceville and Mt. Lebanon and Brookline — the one that says the whole house needs doing, immediately, for a very large number. Sometimes that is true. Often it is not, and what is actually needed is a panel, a few circuits and a plan for the rest over a couple of years.
We will tell you which one you are looking at. If knob-and-tube in a ceiling void is dry, undisturbed and not buried in blown-in insulation, that is a different conversation from knob-and-tube spliced into with lamp cord behind a kitchen. Both get found on the same street. They do not get the same price, and they should not get the same recommendation.
To get a free estimate, call or text (412) 501-7391, or send the details and we will come back to you.