Licensed, permitted, and inspected. WA license #ELECTEL765MN. We are based at 36007 9th Ct SW in Federal Way, so the crew that rewires your house did not drive down from Seattle to get here. Free written estimate after we walk the property.
Full rewires, partial home rewiring, knob and tube replacement, aluminum branch circuit replacement, and the service upgrade that usually has to happen alongside it. If you have been searching for electrical rewiring near me and getting a list of companies based an hour north, we are the one down the road.
Most of Federal Way went up in three waves, and each one left a different problem behind the drywall.
The oldest pockets, the places off Dash Point Road and the original lots near Steel Lake, still turn up knob and tube. Rubber and cloth insulation that has been baking near a heat register since the Truman administration. It crumbles when you touch it. Blown-in insulation gets packed around it during a weatherization job, and now there is no air moving over conductors that were designed to shed heat into open air.
Then came the mid 1960s through the mid 1980s boom, which is most of the housing here. Aluminum branch circuit wiring arrived with it, used heavily in this window. It expands and contracts at connections until the terminations loosen and start to arc. Federal Pacific Stab-Lok and Zinsco panels landed in the same era, and both have a long documented record of breakers that fail to trip on an overload. If your panel is one of those, the breaker is decoration.
A 100 amp service was generous in 1978. Add a heat pump, an induction range, and a Level 2 EV charger and the house is out of room. That is the call we get most often, and it usually turns into a conversation about rewiring rather than just a panel swap. We find all of this regularly, and we will tell you what is there whether or not you hire us to fix it.
None of these on its own proves you need a full rewire. Several of them together usually does.
That last one matters more than people expect. Several carriers in Washington will not write or renew a policy on a house with active knob and tube or aluminum branch wiring, and some will not tell you why until the non renewal letter shows up. If you are in that spot, bring us the letter. We have written the scope of work that satisfies underwriters before.
If you smell burning or see sparking right now, stop reading and call (253) 508-7529. We answer around the clock and our emergency electrical service covers Federal Way.
A rewire is not one job. It is every circuit in the house, replaced, and then everything that has to happen around that.
What is normally not included, unless you ask us to price it: drywall finishing and paint, new light fixtures, and anything structural. We tell you which of those you will need before you sign, not after the truck is unloaded.
Anyone who quotes a rewire over the phone is guessing, and guesses go up. What actually moves the number:
More rooms, more runs, more terminations.
A single story on a full crawlspace with an open attic is the easy version. A two story on a slab with finished walls top to bottom is the expensive one, because access is the whole job.
Most rewires here include a panel and service upgrade, because the old one is the reason you called.
If the walls are already open, a rewire costs meaningfully less. If you are planning a kitchen, bath, or basement project, this is the moment to do it.
Knob and tube that has been spliced into six times by six different people takes longer than a clean 1970s Romex layout.
Published averages for the Puget Sound region run from a few dollars to ten dollars per square foot, a range wide enough to be useless for budgeting. Our estimate is free, itemized, and in writing, and the figure does not move unless you change the job.
Usually yes. We sequence it so you are never without power for more than part of a day, and we work in zones rather than shutting the whole house off on day one. Bedrooms and the kitchen get planned around your schedule.
A typical Federal Way rewire runs somewhere between a few days and a couple of weeks of on site work, plus the wait for inspection between rough in and final. Bigger houses and difficult access push that out.
We give you the schedule in writing with the estimate, and if a job ahead of yours runs long you hear it from us before you have to wonder where we are.
This part trips people up, because Federal Way is not like most of King County. Many Washington cities send electrical permits to the state Department of Labor and Industries. Federal Way does not. The City of Federal Way Building Division runs its own electrical permitting and inspection program, issues the permit, and sends its own inspector.
We pull the permit, we schedule the inspection through the city, and we stay with it until it passes. That is when we call the job finished, not before.
Skipping the permit is not a shortcut, it is a liability. Unpermitted electrical work shows up during a sale, and it gives an insurance carrier a clean reason to deny a fire claim. Any wiring installer who offers to save you the permit fee is telling you something about how they work.
Panel, crawlspace, attic, the length of the runs, what is actually behind the plates. Phone estimates are guesses.
Free and itemized. No trip charge, no dispatch fee.
And schedule the work around your household.
New circuits pulled, boxes set, old conductors removed or abandoned. Openings cut small.
Before anything gets closed up.
Devices, plates, fixtures, panel labeled properly so the next person is not guessing.
We book it and we are there for it.
Someone shows you what was done and why before the truck is packed.
If something is not right afterward, we come back and correct it at our cost.
Sometimes you do not. We would rather tell you that than sell you a rewire you do not need, and it comes up more often than you would think.
If the branch wiring is sound copper and the trouble is the panel, that is a panel replacement, not a rewire.
If the rest of the house is fine, that can be outlet grounding or a partial rewire of those circuits.
If everything else is modern wiring, we rewire the wing and leave the rest alone.
That is a wiring update and a couple of dedicated circuits.
Partial rewiring is real work with a real permit and a real inspection. It is just cheaper, and sometimes it is the right answer.
Federal Way is home, and most of our rewires happen inside the city. We also take home rewiring and electrical rewiring jobs across King and Pierce County. Same rewiring services, same permit process, slightly longer drive.
Several of these describe rewires by name. Moina Snyder, Cecilia Filip, and Andrew Filip are all rewiring jobs.
We do, and we are based here rather than dispatching from Seattle. ElectON Enterprise holds a 5.0 rating on Google, is licensed and insured in Washington under ELECTEL765MN, and works out of 36007 9th Ct SW in Federal Way. Call (253) 508-7529 for a free written estimate on a full or partial rewire.
Most Federal Way rewires run from a few days to about two weeks of on site work, depending on square footage, how many stories, and how hard it is to get to the wiring. Add time for the rough in inspection and the final inspection through the City of Federal Way. We put the schedule in writing with the estimate.
Almost never. We work in zones and sequence the shutdowns so you keep power to most of the house on any given day. We plan around bedrooms, the kitchen, and anyone working from home.
Yes. A rewire always requires a permit, and Federal Way issues and inspects its own electrical permits through the city Building Division rather than through state L&I. We pull the permit and book both inspections. Unpermitted rewiring can cost you an insurance claim and hold up a sale.
If it is aluminum branch circuit wiring from the 1965 to 1973 window, yes, or at minimum have every termination properly corrected by a licensed electrician. Aluminum expands and contracts more than copper, connections work loose over time, and loose connections arc. Aluminum service entrance and feeder conductors are a different thing and are still normal today.
Knob and tube is not automatically an emergency, but it has no ground, the insulation degrades, and it was never designed to sit inside blown insulation. Most carriers now treat active knob and tube as a reason to decline coverage. If yours is still energized, plan on replacing it.
Yes. Partial rewiring is common and often the right call. If the trouble is one wing, one floor, or the original section of an addition, we rewire that and leave sound wiring alone.
It removes a line item buyers use to negotiate, and it clears the inspection findings that kill deals late. It also makes the house insurable, which matters more than resale in the current market. It is not a kitchen remodel in terms of visible return, but it is the thing that stops other work from being blocked.
That is a good way to do it. If the service is being upgraded anyway, adding the EV charger circuit during the rewire costs far less than coming back for it later.
Wiring is running new circuits where none existed, which is what happens on a remodel, an addition, or new construction. Rewiring is replacing conductors that are already there. Most Federal Way jobs turn out to be both, because once the old circuits come out you usually want a few more than the house started with. We handle electrical wiring and rewiring under the same permit.
No. Older homes are most of the rewiring work here because of when Federal Way was built, but we run the same wiring service on 1990s and 2000s houses that have outgrown their circuits, and on remodels where the walls are already open.
No. No estimate fee, no trip charge, no dispatch fee. The price we quote is the price you pay unless you change the scope.
Tell us what is going on in the house and we will come look. You get an itemized number in writing, a schedule, and a straight answer about whether you need a full rewire or something smaller.
WA electrical contractor license #ELECTEL765MN · Serving Federal Way, King County, and Pierce County
