Lighting is where an older Pittsburgh house most obviously shows its age. Rooms built around a single ceiling pendant and two receptacles do not light or live the way people expect now, and the gap gets wider every year as kitchens open up, attics become offices and basements become somewhere you would actually sit.
The Electric Guys do lighting and fixture work across the city and the surrounding communities — recessed and LED lighting, ceiling fans, under-cabinet and closet lighting, exterior and landscape lighting, and proper power out to detached garages, basements and workshops.
The local complication is almost always the ceiling. Plaster and lath does not behave like drywall. It cracks along the key rather than cutting cleanly, and a can light dropped into it carelessly leaves a repair bigger than the fixture. Above it, a lot of the older city housing is balloon framed, which means the stud bays run further than people expect and the joist layout upstairs frequently bears no relationship to the room below. Both of those change how a job is planned, and both are the reason a lighting quote from someone who works mainly in new construction can come apart once the first hole is opened.
Ceiling fans have their own version of this. A box rated to carry a light fitting is not rated to carry a fan, and a surprising number of fans in this region are hanging off boxes that were never meant to take the load. Bracing it properly is the job; hanging the fan is the easy part.
Garage and workshop circuits are the other recurring one, particularly on the hillside lots where the garage is detached and halfway down the slope.
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