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Rewiring

New wiring for old Coast houses.

Whole-home rewires, aluminum remediation and code correction — done surgically through attics and access points, with power on every night.

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What aging wiring looks like from the living room

Flickers when the AC compressor kicks. Outlets that quit and come back. A breaker that trips on the same innocent load. Two-prong outlets wearing three-prong adapters like a disguise. Warm switch plates. A faint hot-plastic smell you can't place. None of those are quirks — they're symptoms of connections loosening and insulation aging somewhere you can't see.

The Coast's mid-century housing stock carries all the era's greatest hits: aluminum branch circuits from the copper-shortage years, cloth-insulated wiring gone brittle in unvented attics that hit 140 degrees every summer, and grounds that exist on the outlet face but nowhere behind it.

Remediate or rewire — we scope by evidence

Not every old house needs everything replaced, and we won't pretend otherwise. Aluminum terminations can often be corrected in place with approved connectors at a fraction of rewire cost. Isolated problem circuits can be rerun individually. But wiring that's brittle, undersized, or failing across the house gets an honest verdict too: a whole-home rewire, quoted fixed, mapped with you room by room.

Either way the work is permitted, inspected, and finished with a fully labeled panel — so the next electrician, inspector or buyer reads your house like a book instead of a mystery.

Living through a rewire

Easier than you'd think. We work circuit by circuit so the house keeps running, cover and clean daily, and cluster the noisy attic work into the middle of the day. Most single-story homes take three to five working days. When it's done you get grounded outlets everywhere, capacity for modern loads, AFCI/GFCI protection to current code — and a house that's quietly boring behind the walls, which is exactly what wiring should be.

Riley the Marlin — Reliance Mechanical mascot
🔧 Riley says

Outlets shouldn't be seasonal. If one works in spring and sulks in summer, something's expanding and contracting where the wire lands — and that's a connection worth finding before August does.

— Riley, the Reliance Mechanical mascot

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