The Electric Guys cover Moon Township through 15108 — Thorn Run, Coraopolis Heights, Moon Crest, Beacon Hill and Flaugherty Run, from the Ohio River valley up to the airport plateau. Panels, rewiring, lighting, generators and EV chargers, with free estimates Monday through Saturday.
What makes Moon Township homes different
Moon's housing follows the airport. The township was a modest river-valley community until Greater Pittsburgh Airport put it on the map, and most of what is here was built through the sixties, seventies and eighties as the corporate corridor around the airfield filled in, with more added through the nineties and after.
That means a housing stock dominated by the decades that produced the two problems we look for first. Aluminium branch wiring, from the 1965-to-1973 window, appears regularly in the older Thorn Run and Coraopolis Heights streets. Federal Pacific and Zinsco panels turn up in the same houses. Neither is universal and neither is a reason to panic, but both are worth identifying rather than discovering when you sell.
The corporate corridor produces a second, less obvious pattern: a lot of Moon housing has changed hands more often than average, because this has long been a relocation market. Houses that have been through many owners accumulate many small modifications — a basement finished by one, a deck circuit added by another, a ceiling fan hung off a light box by a third. Faults in those houses are rarely where the symptom is, and a $99 diagnostic that traces the circuit properly is worth considerably more than a guess.
Geography matters here in a specific way. Moon runs from the Ohio River valley up onto the plateau the airport sits on, which is a substantial elevation change across the township. The river-valley streets are older and tighter; the plateau developments are newer, flatter and more spacious. Lot size, garage type and service capacity all track that divide fairly reliably.
There is one more thing about Moon worth saying plainly, because people ask: proximity to the airport does not change how a house is wired. What it does change is the rental market — a considerable amount of housing here serves Robert Morris University and the airport workforce, and rental properties have their own set of recurring needs, particularly around smoke detector wiring, GFCI coverage and getting an inspection signed off.
Permits run through the township under the state Uniform Construction Code with third-party electrical inspection.
Services we offer in Moon Township
- Panel and service upgrades, including Federal Pacific and Zinsco replacement
- Aluminium branch wiring remediation and documentation
- Partial and whole-home rewiring
- Service mast and meter enclosure repair
- $99 electrical diagnostics on faults in much-modified houses
- Outlet, switch and grounding repair
- Hard-wired smoke detector circuits
- GFCI and AFCI protection
- Whole-house surge protection
- Recessed and LED lighting
- Ceiling fan installation, properly braced
- Garage, basement and workshop circuits
- EV charger installation with load calculation
- Standby generators and transfer switches
- Hot tub and spa wiring
Local, reliable and nearby
Moon is a straightforward run out the Parkway West and we are out here often. What we have learned to check first in this township is what previous owners did, because the answer is usually "quite a lot, and not all of it well".
If you have just bought here and something is not behaving, that is a good use of a $99 diagnostic — it is far cheaper to find out what the last three owners left behind than to keep replacing devices that were never the problem.
Free estimates Monday through Saturday, 9am to 5pm. Call or text (412) 501-7391.