Expert Electrician Services in Marietta, Ohio

The steamboat-era homes were wired when electricity was new. Much of that wiring is still in the walls — knob-and-tube, then cloth-insulated wire, then decades of splices added by whoever was handy. We fish new circuits through with minimal plaster damage, replacing the oldest wiring first and grounding what was never grounded.

Homes near the Ohio and Muskingum have flooded, and floodwater destroys electrical at every level it reaches. We elevate panels, outlets, and equipment above the water line, use flood-rated gear where it matters, and wire basements so a flood doesn't mean a full rewire. Recovery work after a flood starts with knowing what water touched.

Many of Marietta's older homes still run on 60-amp service sized for a house with few appliances. Air conditioning, laundry, and modern kitchens overwhelm it. A 200-amp service with a properly labeled panel is the upgrade that ends the breaker dance and leaves room for an EV charger later.

In a town that floods and ices over, the sump pump is the last line of defense — and it is useless in an outage. We wire dedicated pump circuits, add battery or generator backup, and make sure the pump runs when the storm takes the grid. The cheapest flood insurance is a pump that keeps working.

Ohio Valley ice storms snap tree limbs onto service drops and rip masts off houses. We assess the service entrance before winter — mast, weatherhead, and connections — and harden what the ice will find. For the outages themselves, a standby generator or a safe portable-generator connection keeps the heat on.

The county's farm-era outbuildings and detached garages were wired with whatever was on hand — undersized wire, no grounding, connections that have been buried in dust for decades. We rewire outbuildings properly, add subpanels where the work demands it, and ground everything the way it should have been done originally.

Century homes often lack the safety devices modern code requires — GFCI in kitchens and baths, AFCI on bedroom circuits, smoke and CO alarms on every level. We bring older homes up to current safety standards without gutting them, adding protection where it counts most.