ElectON Enterprise is a licensed residential electrical contractor with an office at 1609 Central Ave S Suite E, Kent, WA 98032. We handle panel repairs, home rewiring, new construction wiring, lighting, EV chargers and emergency calls for houses across Kent, from the valley floor up to East Hill and out past Lake Meridian. Every job gets a permit where one is required and an inspection before we call it done.
ElectON Enterprise • 1609 Central Ave S Suite E, Kent, WA 98032
Washington electrical contractor license ELECTEL765MN
Licensed, bonded and insured
5.0 rating on Google
Permitted and inspected work on every job that requires it
24/7 emergency response
Free written estimates with no trip charge and no dispatch fee
Kent Housing Stock
Residential Electricians In Kent, WA
Kent is not one housing stock, it is four or five stacked on top of each other, and the wiring tells you which one you are standing in.
The older streets near Scenic Hill and the original downtown grid still turn up knob and tube behind the plaster. East Hill filled in through the 1970s and 1980s with ramblers and split levels, which is exactly the window for undersized 100 amp services and for Federal Pacific Stab-Lok and Zinsco panels. Those two panel brands have a long documented record of breakers that fail to trip under overload, and a breaker that will not trip is a decoration. Homes built between roughly 1965 and 1973 can also carry aluminum branch circuits, which insurers have gotten noticeably stricter about. Then there is everything built after 2000 around Panther Lake and the newer plats, where the wiring is usually fine and the real problem is that a 2004 panel was never sized for a heat pump plus an EV charger.
We work on all of it. We also tell you what we find whether or not you hire us to fix it, because a homeowner who gets an honest read on a panel tends to come back when something bigger goes wrong.
The rest is ordinary residential work done properly. Outlets, switches, ceiling fans, lighting, breakers, panels, rewires, EV chargers, remodels, new construction, and the 11pm call when something starts to smell like hot plastic.
What We Do
Electrical Services In Kent, WA
Here is everything we do for homes in Kent. If what is happening at your house is not on this list, describe it to us anyway and we will tell you whether it is ours.
Outlet Replacement And New Outlets
Dead receptacles, scorch marks around a plug, or a two prong outlet with nowhere for a ground wire to go. We replace what has failed and add new outlets where you actually use them, including GFCI protection in kitchens, bathrooms, garages and outdoors. Kent houses built before the mid 1960s tend to have one outlet per wall and no ground, which is why so many of them have a power strip snaking behind the couch. That is fixable without tearing the room apart. Learn more about outlet replacement.
Light Switches And Dimmers
A switch that buzzes, feels warm to the touch, or has to be held in position has a loose connection or the wrong load behind it. We replace failing switches, wire three way and four way circuits so a long East Hill hallway works from both ends, and match dimmers to your LED fixtures so the lights stop flickering when you turn them down. Most LED flicker complaints we get in Kent are a dimmer mismatch, not a bad bulb. Learn more about switch and dimmer installation.
Ceiling Fan Installation
Hanging a fan is not the same as hanging a light. The box has to carry the weight plus the wobble, and most of the boxes we open in Kent homes were never rated for it. We install fan rated boxes, run the wiring for separate light and fan control, and mount units on the sloped and vaulted ceilings that are everywhere in the 1980s split levels up the hill. Learn more about ceiling fan installation.
Custom Lighting Installation
Recessed cans, under cabinet strips, outdoor and landscape lighting, full fixture swaps. Layout is the part people skip, and it decides whether you like the room afterward. Put the cans in the wrong place and you get your own shadow across the counter you cook on. We plan the layout with you before anyone touches a ladder, which matters more in Kent than you would think because so many kitchens here were remodeled once already with the lighting an afterthought. Learn more about lighting installation.
Circuit Breakers
Breakers trip for a reason. Sometimes it is a space heater and a microwave sharing one 15 amp circuit in a 1978 kitchen. Sometimes it is a short inside a wall. We find out which, replace worn or undersized breakers, and add AFCI or GFCI protection where the current code requires it. If your panel is a Federal Pacific or a Zinsco, the breakers themselves are the problem, and we will walk you through the options rather than sell you a replacement breaker for a panel that should not be there. Learn more about breaker and panel work.
Electrical Panel Repair And Replacement
A 100 amp panel was plenty for a Kent house in 1978. Add an EV charger, a heat pump and an induction range and it is not. We run a real load calculation before quoting, so the number you get is based on your house instead of a guess, then coordinate the meter work with Puget Sound Energy and upgrade you to 200 amp service with capacity left over. Smaller panel repairs get handled as repairs. We do not upsell a replacement when a lug, a breaker or a bonding problem is the actual fault. Learn more about electrical panels.
Whole House Rewiring
Knob and tube, cloth wrapped conductors and aluminum branch circuits all turn up in Kent, and insurers have gotten stricter about every one of them. Some carriers will not write a policy until the wiring is gone. We rewire circuit by circuit, permit the work, and schedule it so you can keep living in the house while it happens. Nobody has to move into a hotel for three weeks. Learn more about home rewiring.
Wiring Updates And Repairs
Not every house needs a full rewire. Often it is one bad run, a junction box someone buried inside a wall during a 1990s remodel, or a circuit that was extended twice past what it was ever meant to carry. We trace the fault, correct the run, and bring that section up to the current code instead of quoting you the whole house. Learn more about wiring updates.
Outlet Grounding
Two prong outlets with no ground path are common in Kent homes built before the mid 1960s. Swapping in a three prong receptacle without running a ground does not fix anything, it just hides the problem behind a plug that now fits, and it is the single most common piece of bad DIY work we walk into here. We run a real ground where the path exists, install GFCI protection where a ground wire is not practical, and label the outlet the way code requires. Learn more about outlet grounding.
Dedicated Circuits
Hot tubs, saunas, well pumps, workshop equipment, window AC units, anything with a motor in it. All of that runs better and safer on its own circuit. We size the conductor for the load and for the length of the run, which matters on Kent’s deeper lots where the detached garage or the shop sits a long way from the panel and voltage drops off before it gets there. Learn more about dedicated circuits.
Smoke Detectors And CO Alarms
Washington requires interconnected smoke alarms in bedrooms and hallways, and carbon monoxide alarms outside sleeping areas. Battery units stuck to a ceiling usually do not satisfy that, and it comes up during Kent home sales more often than sellers expect. We hardwire and interconnect them so when one sounds, all of them do. Learn more about alarm installation.
EV Charger Installation
Level 2 charging for Tesla, Ford, Rivian and anything running a J1772 or NACS connector. We check whether your panel can carry the load before selling you anything, pull the permit, run the circuit and stay on it through inspection. Some Kent homes need a service upgrade first, particularly the 100 amp East Hill houses. We tell you that at the estimate, not after the truck is unloaded. Learn more about EV charger installation.
New Construction Wiring
Rough in through trim out on custom homes, ADUs and detached garages. We read the plans, coordinate with your general contractor and the other trades, and set boxes where the drywall crew will not have to guess. Kent has allowed detached ADUs for years now and we wire a steady number of them, including the subpanel and the separate service coordination that goes with it. Learn more about new construction wiring.
Remodeling And Renovation Electrical
Kitchens and baths need far more circuits than they did when most Kent houses were built. Basement conversions and ADU builds usually need their own subpanel. We work around finished surfaces, fish wire instead of opening walls wherever that is possible, and sequence our work around your other trades so nobody stands around waiting on us. Learn more about remodel electrical.
General Electrical Installations
Range and dryer circuits, garbage disposals, bath fans, doorbells, exterior receptacles, subpanels for a shop. The unglamorous work that makes a house function. If you have a list of small items, we would rather do all of them in one visit than send a truck out four times. Learn more about electrical installations.
Emergency Electrical Services
Burning smell, sparking outlet, a breaker that will not reset, half the house dark. Call us. We answer around the clock and our Kent office is minutes off the SR-167 interchange, with a stocked truck so most calls finish on the first visit. Learn more about emergency electrical service.
Not sure which one you need? Describe what is happening and we will tell you.
Electrical emergencies do not schedule themselves for a Tuesday morning. We answer the phone at every hour, and because our office is on Central Ave S rather than an hour north, a Kent call does not sit in a queue behind three jobs in another county.
Call us immediately, and shut the circuit off at the panel first if you can do it safely, when you notice any of the following:
A burning or hot plastic smell near an outlet, switch or the panel
Sparks, arcing or visible scorching at a receptacle
A breaker that trips instantly every time you reset it
Buzzing or crackling coming from inside the panel
Part of the house losing power while the rest stays on
Warm or discolored cover plates
A panel that has taken on water after a storm or a flooded crawlspace
A breaker that trips once under a genuine overload did its job. A breaker that trips the moment it is reset is telling you there is a fault on the circuit, and resetting it repeatedly is how a bad connection turns into a fire. Leave it off and call (253) 508-7529.
Panel work is the single most common thing Kent homeowners call us about, and it splits into two very different jobs.
A repair covers a failed breaker, a loose or burned feeder lug, a missing bonding jumper, a double tapped breaker left behind by a previous owner, or corrosion in an exterior panel that has been taking Puget Sound weather for thirty years. That is a service call, not a project.
A replacement is a different animal. We start with a load calculation based on your actual square footage, heating type and appliances, buy the permit through Washington L and I, coordinate the meter pull with Puget Sound Energy, install the new service and stay with it through inspection. Most Kent houses on the older side of East Hill move from 100 amp to 200 amp service, which leaves room for an EV charger and a heat pump without you having to do this again in five years.
If you have a Federal Pacific Stab-Lok or a Zinsco panel, that is worth a conversation regardless of whether anything is currently wrong. Both brands have a documented history of breakers that do not trip under fault conditions. Some insurers now ask about them directly during underwriting.
People search for home rewiring after one of three things happens: an inspector flags the wiring during a sale, an insurance carrier asks a question the homeowner cannot answer, or something in the wall finally misbehaves badly enough to be scary.
What we find in Kent depends on the street. The older houses closer to downtown and Scenic Hill can still have knob and tube in the attic and the crawlspace, often partially replaced by whoever owned the place in 1994 and left mid job. Homes from the late 1960s and early 1970s may have aluminum branch circuits, which are not automatically dangerous but do need proper terminations and are increasingly a problem at renewal time. Cloth wrapped conductors show up in between.
We rewire circuit by circuit rather than gutting the house. Wire gets fished through existing cavities wherever the framing allows, drywall damage stays limited to what is necessary, and the whole job is permitted and inspected. Most families stay in the house the entire time.
If a partial rewire is genuinely enough, we will say so. We would rather do one honest partial than lose a customer who finds out later they paid for work they did not need.
We wire custom homes, ADUs, detached garages and shops across Kent and the surrounding valley. Rough in through trim out, with the plan read before anyone shows up rather than during.
Practically, that means we set boxes where the finish carpenter and the drywall crew expect them, coordinate the panel and service location with Puget Sound Energy early enough that the service drop is not the thing holding up your certificate of occupancy, and talk to your general contractor about sequencing instead of turning up whenever there is a gap in our schedule.
Kent’s ADU rules have made detached units a real category of work here, and they carry their own wrinkles: subpanel sizing, the feeder run from the main house, and whether the existing service can carry a second dwelling at all. We work that out at the plan stage.
Your Residential Electrical Contractor In Kent, WA
Looking for a residential electrical contractor in Kent rather than a one person handyman operation? That distinction matters more than most homeowners realize.
An electrician is a person who holds a state certification. A residential electrical contractor is a licensed, bonded and insured business that can legally buy permits, carry workers compensation and put a crew on your job. ElectON Enterprise is registered in Washington under license ELECTEL765MN, and the electricians who show up are on our own payroll rather than subcontractors we found last week.
Reliability is the thing homeowners tell us other contractors get wrong, so we treat the arrival window as a commitment instead of an estimate. If a job ahead of yours runs long, you hear about it from us before you start wondering where we are. Crews clean up before they leave, and someone walks you through what was done and why before the truck is packed.
You also get the same person from the first phone call to the final inspection. Alex quotes the job and Alex is who you call if something is not right. Nothing gets handed off to a project manager you have never spoken to.
If the work is not right, we come back and correct it at our own cost.
Meet Your Kent Project Lead
Alexandru Goncear, Owner And CEO
Electrical work goes better when you know who is running it. ElectON Enterprise is led by Alexandru Goncear, a Washington licensed electrician who has spent years on residential systems across King, Pierce and Snohomish County.
Alex writes the estimates himself. He walks the property before quoting, so the figure you get reflects what is actually in the wall rather than a description over the phone, and he stays your point of contact through permitting, the work and the final inspection.
Several reviews on our Google profile mention him phoning ahead to say when the inspector was due. Small thing. It is also the sort of thing homeowners keep telling us they never got from the last contractor they hired.
Washington license: ELECTEL765MN
Kent office: 1609 Central Ave S Suite E
Works across King, Pierce and Snohomish County
Handles every estimate personally
Estimate To Inspection
How A Job Runs With Us
01
We Come And Look
Someone walks the property before quoting. The panel, the crawlspace, the length of the run. Phone estimates are guesses, and guesses go up once the truck arrives.
02
You Get A Written Number
Free and itemized. There is no trip charge and no dispatch fee, and the figure does not move unless you change the job.
03
We Pull The Permit
Panel work, new circuits, service upgrades and rewires all require a permit in Washington. Kent does not run its own electrical inspection program, so we buy the permit through the Department of Labor and Industries. Skipping that step can cost you an insurance claim later, and it will absolutely come up when you sell.
04
An Inspector Signs It Off
We book the inspection and stay with it until it passes. That is when we call the job finished, not before.
Our office sits on Central Ave S just south of downtown Kent, a couple of minutes from the SR-167 interchange and a straight run to I-5 down Kent Des Moines Road. That location is the whole point. When a Kent homeowner calls with a dead panel, the truck that pulls into the driveway did not start its morning in another county.
Kent Neighborhoods We Cover
East Hill, West Hill and Riverview, Panther Lake, Meridian and Lake Meridian, Scenic Hill, Midway, Star Lake, Kent Valley, Downtown Kent, and the Soos Creek corridor toward Covington. Zip codes 98030, 98031, 98032, 98035, 98042, 98064 and 98089.
Nearby Cities We Also Serve
Auburn, Renton, Covington, Des Moines, SeaTac, Tukwila, Maple Valley, Black Diamond, Burien and Normandy Park, plus our other service areas: Federal Way, Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma and Everett.
Kent, WA
Common Questions About Electricians In Kent, WA
Who Are The Best Residential Electricians Near Me In Kent, WA?
We are hardly neutral on that, so read the reviews instead of taking our word for it. ElectON Enterprise holds a 5.0 rating on Google, carries Washington contractor license ELECTEL765MN, and keeps an office at 1609 Central Ave S Suite E rather than dispatching from somewhere else in the county. That last part matters more than people expect: a local crew reaches you faster on an emergency and already knows what tends to be behind the walls in this specific housing stock. One call at (253) 508-7529 covers panels, rewires, outlets, lighting and EV charging.
Who Pulls The Electrical Permit For Work In Kent, WA?
The City of Kent does not run its own electrical inspection program. Electrical permits and inspections inside Kent city limits go through the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, which runs the regional office on Gateway Drive in Tukwila. We buy the permit before work starts and we schedule the inspection ourselves, so you never have to deal with L and I directly. Washington currently inspects to the 2023 National Electrical Code.
How Fast Can An Emergency Electrician Get To My House In Kent?
We answer the phone around the clock. Our office is just off Central Ave S near the SR-167 interchange, so East Hill, the valley, Panther Lake and West Hill are all short drives outside of peak traffic. If you smell burning plastic, see sparks at an outlet, or a breaker will not stay set, shut that circuit off at the panel and call (253) 508-7529.
How Much Does Electrical Panel Repair Cost In Kent, WA?
It depends on whether the panel needs a repair or a replacement. Swapping a failed breaker or fixing a loose feeder lug is a service call. A full 200 amp service upgrade involves a load calculation, a permit, new service entrance conductors and coordination with Puget Sound Energy for the meter pull, which puts it in a different category entirely. We walk the panel in person and give you a written itemized number before anything is ordered. Estimates are free and there is no trip charge.
Does My Older Kent Home Need To Be Rewired?
Some do, plenty do not. Knob and tube shows up in the older houses around Scenic Hill and the original downtown grid. Aluminum branch circuits turn up in homes built between roughly 1965 and 1973, which covers a lot of Kent East Hill. Insurers have gotten stricter about both, and a few will not write a policy until the wiring is replaced. We inspect first and tell you what we actually find, including when the answer is that your wiring is fine and you should keep your money.
Can My Kent Home Handle An EV Charger?
Often yes, sometimes only after a service upgrade. A Level 2 charger typically wants a 40 to 60 amp circuit, and a 100 amp panel already carrying a heat pump and an electric range may not have the room. We run a load calculation before quoting, so you find out at the estimate rather than after the truck is unloaded.
Are You Licensed And Insured To Work In Kent?
Yes. ElectON Enterprise is licensed, bonded and insured in Washington under contractor license ELECTEL765MN. You can verify that number yourself on the Department of Labor and Industries contractor lookup, and we would rather you did than take our word for it.
Do You Charge For Estimates?
No. Estimates are free and itemized, there is no trip charge and no dispatch fee, and the number does not move unless you change the scope of the job.
What Is The Difference Between An Electrician And A Residential Electrical Contractor?
An electrician is an individual holding a personal certification from the state. A residential electrical contractor is a licensed and bonded business that can legally buy permits, carry insurance and put crews on a job. ElectON Enterprise is both: a registered Washington contractor staffed by certified electricians on our own payroll.
Which Parts Of Kent Do You Cover?
All of it. East Hill, West Hill and Riverview, Panther Lake, Meridian and Lake Meridian, Scenic Hill, Midway, Star Lake, downtown and the Kent Valley. We also cover Auburn, Renton, Covington, Des Moines, SeaTac, Tukwila, Maple Valley, Federal Way, Burien and Normandy Park.
Do You Handle Commercial Electrical Work?
Our focus is residential, including houses, ADUs, detached garages and small multifamily. If you call us about a Kent Valley warehouse we will tell you honestly that it is not our lane rather than take the job and learn on your building.
Ready To Schedule Electrical Service In Kent?
Tell us what is going on and we will give you a written estimate. No trip charge, no dispatch fee, and the price we quote is the price you pay.
