The Electric Guys cover Robinson Township through 15205, 15136 and 15275 — Settlers Ridge, Pinkerton Run, Forest Grove, the Clever Road area and the older Montour streets along Chartiers Creek. Panels, rewiring, lighting, generators and EV chargers, with free estimates Monday through Saturday.
What makes Robinson homes different
Robinson is two housing stocks sitting side by side, and which one you are in changes the job completely.
The older half is the original township — the streets around Montour and Chartiers Creek, and the housing that grew up along the rail and streetcar lines long before the Parkway West existed. That is modest pre-war and early postwar housing with all the finds that come with it: ungrounded two-wire circuits, small services, occasional knob-and-tube, and decades of additions spliced into circuits that were never designed for them.
The newer half arrived with the retail boom. Once the Parkway West corridor filled in with the Mall at Robinson, Settlers Ridge and everything around them, residential development followed on the remaining land, and a large share of Robinson's housing is now post-1990 plans on what used to be farmland. Those houses came with 200-amp services, attached garages, modern grounded wiring and drywall — which makes them the easy end of our work. An EV charger in a 2002 Settlers Ridge house is frequently a half-day job.
The interesting thing about Robinson is how often those two worlds sit within a mile of each other, and how often a quote fails to distinguish. A charger install in the newer plans and a charger install in an older Montour-area house are not the same project, because in the second one the honest first answer is usually a service upgrade.
The topography adds its own wrinkle. Robinson is cut through by Chartiers Creek and by the deep ravines the Montour Trail follows, which is why the road network here is so indirect and why houses on the older streets are so often set well above or below the road. Sloped lots mean detached garages down a bank and longer feeder runs than the map suggests.
One more thing worth knowing given how much commercial development is here: the same corridor that brought the shops brought a lot of infill, and infill housing often sits on a service that was extended to reach it. Establishing what your service actually is, rather than what the house looks like it should have, is the first step on any large new load.
Permits run through the township under the state Uniform Construction Code with third-party electrical inspection.
Services we offer in Robinson
- EV charger installation, straightforward on the newer plans and load-calculated on the older housing
- Panel and service upgrades
- Knob-and-tube assessment and rewiring in the older Montour streets
- Aluminium branch wiring remediation
- Partial and whole-home rewiring
- Service mast and meter enclosure repair
- $99 electrical diagnostics
- Outlet, switch and grounding repair
- GFCI and AFCI protection
- Whole-house surge protection
- Recessed and LED lighting
- Ceiling fan installation
- Detached garage and workshop feeders on sloped lots
- Standby generators and transfer switches
- Hot tub, spa and pool wiring
Local, reliable and nearby
Robinson is a straight run west on the Parkway and one of the easier parts of our radius to reach, which is useful because the work here splits so neatly between quick jobs in the newer plans and proper old-house work a few streets away.
We will tell you which you have before quoting. If your house is post-1990 with a 200-amp service, most of what people worry about here does not apply to you, and we will say so rather than finding things.
Free estimates Monday through Saturday, 9am to 5pm. Call or text (412) 501-7391.