Almost every serious electrical conversation in this region ends up at the panel. Pittsburgh's housing stock is old enough that a great many homes are still being fed by a service sized for a 1950s household — one that had a fridge, a radio and some lamps, and nothing that heats, charges or computes. The house has changed enormously since. The wire coming into it usually has not.
The Electric Guys replace and upgrade services and panels across the city and out to roughly thirty-three miles, and we rewire the circuits behind them. That covers the 60-amp fuse boxes still live in some older city homes, the early 100-amp panels in the postwar townships, the recalled Federal Pacific and Zinsco panels scattered through anything built between the fifties and the eighties, and the original knob-and-tube and mid-sixties aluminium branch wiring that turns up behind plaster all over the place.
It also covers the part nobody thinks about until a storm takes it down. The mast, weatherhead and meter enclosure on the side of the house are the homeowner's responsibility, not the utility's, and a tree limb that pulls the mast away from the wall is an emergency that only an electrician can put right before the power comes back on.
The honest answer on this kind of work is rarely all-or-nothing. A house with a tired panel and three genuinely bad circuits does not automatically need a full rewire, and a house with sound wiring does not become safe because somebody fitted a bigger panel. We look at what is actually there, tell you which category you are in, and price the work that follows from it.
Estimates are free, Monday through Saturday. Pick the service below that matches what you have, or send a photo of the panel to (412) 501-7391 and we will tell you what we are looking at.