Residential & General Electrical
Electrical Safety Inspections
A documented condition report on the wiring you are buying, selling, insuring or renting out.
Electrical Safety Inspections — what's involved
An electrical inspection answers a question a general home inspection usually cannot: not just whether something looks wrong, but what it is, how urgent it is and what correcting it involves. That distinction matters most when there is a decision attached — a purchase, a renewal, a tenancy, or an older house you have just inherited responsibility for.
Electric Shock produces a written condition report covering the service and panel, grounding and bonding, the state of the branch circuits, device condition, and protection against the standard current practice would apply. Findings are categorized by urgency, so you can tell the difference between a safety issue that needs attention now and an item that is simply not how it would be done today.
Safety Inspections
Photos of this work will appear here as jobs are documented.
What an inspection covers
- Service entrance, meter, panel condition, breaker sizing and available capacity
- Grounding electrode system and bonding, including water and gas piping
- Identification of knob-and-tube, cloth-insulated and aluminum branch wiring
- Receptacle and switch condition, polarity, grounding and GFCI function
- Presence and coverage of GFCI and AFCI protection against current requirements
- Accessible junction boxes, splices and evidence of unpermitted alterations
- Smoke and carbon monoxide alarm placement and interconnection
The Electrical Safety Inspections process
Agree the scope
A pre-purchase walkthrough, a landlord's periodic check and an insurer's specific request are different jobs. We confirm which one you need and what the report has to say.
Inspect systematically
Service and panel first, then grounding, then circuit by circuit through the accessible areas, testing devices as we go.
Document with photographs
Findings are photographed and described in plain language, not just listed as code references, so you can act on them or hand them to someone else.
Categorize by urgency
Safety issues, code-required corrections and recommended improvements are kept in separate categories, with an indication of what each involves to correct.
What you get out of it
Negotiating position
A specific, documented list of electrical defects is far more useful in a property transaction than a general inspector's note to consult an electrician.
Priorities, not a wall of findings
Knowing which three items matter and which nine do not is the most useful part of the report.
A baseline
For a landlord or a long-term owner, a dated report with photographs is a genuinely useful record to hold.
Safety Inspections questions
Still not sure? Send us the details and we'll give you a straight answer before anything is booked.
Is this the same as the inspection the city does?
My home inspector said to have an electrician look at it. Is this that?
Will you find things I then have to fix?
Often booked alongside this
- Home RewiringWhole-house and partial rewires for older homes with ungrounded, cloth or knob-and-tube wiring.
- Electrical RepairsRepairs to damaged wiring, failed devices, scorched terminations and non-compliant past work.
- Electrical Panel UpgradesSwap a crowded, fused or obsolete panel for a modern breaker panel with room to grow.
Need Electrical Safety Inspections?
Tell us about the property and what you're trying to achieve. Quotes are free and there's no obligation.
Start with a free quote
Pick Electrical Safety Inspections 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.