Residential & General Electrical
Electrical Repairs
Failed devices, damaged cable, bad splices and burned terminations, put right properly.
Electrical Repairs — what's involved
Repair work is where most of an electrician's week goes, and the repairs that matter are rarely dramatic. A backstabbed receptacle that has been carrying a space heater for six winters, a wire nut that was never quite tight, a splice made outside a box and buried in insulation, a cable stapled through by a picture hook — these are the things that quietly heat up and eventually fail.
Electric Shock repairs the fault and, where it points at a pattern, tells you about the pattern. If one receptacle failed because it was backstabbed and the whole house was wired that way, you should know that, even though the immediate repair is one device. We would rather give you the real picture than sell the same repair six times.
Electrical Repairs
Photos of this work will appear here as jobs are documented.
Repairs we carry out
- Failed or damaged receptacles, switches, dimmers and cover plates
- Burned, loose or corroded terminations at devices, breakers and panel lugs
- Cable damaged by nails, screws, rodents, water or renovation work
- Splices made outside a box, or boxes buried behind drywall
- Aluminum branch-circuit connections remediated with listed connectors
- Failed breakers, including those that no longer reset or no longer trip
- Correcting unpermitted or non-compliant work left by a previous owner or contractor
The Electrical Repairs process
Confirm the fault
We verify what has failed and why before replacing anything — a device that burned because of a loose connection will burn again if only the device is changed.
Make it safe first
If the circuit is unsafe to energize, it gets isolated and clearly identified before any other work happens.
Repair to current standard
Repairs are made to the standard the work would be held to today — correct terminations, listed connectors, accessible boxes, appropriate protection.
Tell you what we found
If the repair revealed something systemic, you get told, with a clear distinction between what needs doing now and what can wait.
What you get out of it
Repairs that hold
Fixing the termination rather than swapping the component is what stops the same fault coming back next year.
Honest triage
Urgent, soon and eventually are three different categories, and you get told which one you are in.
Past work corrected
Buried junction boxes and improvised splices left by someone else are a common find in older homes and straightforward to put right.
Electrical Repairs questions
Still not sure? Send us the details and we'll give you a straight answer before anything is booked.
What is a backstabbed receptacle?
Do I need to fix work a previous owner did themselves?
Can you repair aluminum branch wiring?
Often booked alongside this
- Electrical TroubleshootingSystematic diagnosis of breakers that trip, circuits that die and lights that flicker.
- Home RewiringWhole-house and partial rewires for older homes with ungrounded, cloth or knob-and-tube wiring.
- Electrical Safety InspectionsWritten condition reports for home purchases, insurance, rentals and older properties.
Need Electrical Repairs?
Tell us about the property and what you're trying to achieve. Quotes are free and there's no obligation.
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Pick Electrical Repairs from the service list below and tell us what you need. Photographs of the panel, the room or the equipment help us answer far more precisely.