Renovation & Addition Wiring.

Kitchens and baths: where circuits go to multiply

A modern kitchen commonly needs seven or more circuits — small appliances, dishwasher, disposal, microwave, fridge, range, lighting — and older homes rarely have spares. We plan the circuit map against your appliance list early, so cabinet day doesn’t reveal a panel problem.

Additions start at the panel

Before an addition is framed, someone should confirm the service can feed it. We run the load calculation, plan the sub-panel where it makes sense, and rough in with the same future-proofing we bring to new builds — because an addition is a new build, just attached.

The electrical decisions that make or break a remodel

Every remodel has a moment when the walls are open and every electrical improvement is cheap — and a moment three weeks later when the drywall is up and the same improvements cost triple. Our job is to make sure the right decisions happen in the first window: circuit counts matched to the appliance schedule, lighting designed for how the room will actually be used, panel capacity confirmed before the addition is framed, and the future-proofing (a conduit stub here, a deeper box there) that costs almost nothing in the moment.

We review plans with owners and GCs before demolition whenever we can get them. A one-hour plan review has saved more remodel budgets than any other free thing we do.

Old house meets new kitchen

The signature North Country remodel is a modern kitchen going into a house wired generations ago — seven-plus new circuits meeting a panel that may not have seven spaces left. We sequence that gracefully: load calculation first, panel work (if needed) scheduled ahead of cabinet day, and the old wiring in the opened walls evaluated while it's reachable. A remodel is the cheapest rewiring opportunity a house ever gets; we make sure open walls do double duty.

The same logic runs through bath remodels, basement finishes, and additions: the electrical scope planned as part of the design, priced as a fixed written number, and delivered inside the GC's schedule — because remodels have enough surprises without the electrician contributing any.