House Rewiring in Shreveport, LA
Ed's Electric rewires older Shreveport homes — cloth-insulated and knob-and-tube wiring in Highland and Queensborough, aluminum branch circuits in 1960s and 70s Southern Hills and Broadmoor ranches, and ungrounded two-prong outlets throughout. Whole-house or partial, permitted with the City of Shreveport, quoted in writing before we start.
- Whole-house & partial rewires
- Knob-and-tube removal
- Cloth-insulated wiring replacement
- Aluminum branch wiring remediation
- Two-prong to grounded outlets
- AFCI/GFCI code compliance
- Panel upgrade included when needed
- City of Shreveport permits & inspection
Which Shreveport homes usually need rewiring
If your house was built before about 1965 and has never been rewired, the odds are high that at least part of it is running on cloth-insulated wiring — and possibly knob-and-tube in the attic. Cloth insulation dries out, cracks, and falls off the conductor, especially in a Shreveport attic that hits 140°F every July. Knob-and-tube has no ground at all and was never designed to be buried in blown insulation, which is exactly what happened to most of it during the energy retrofits of the 1980s.
Homes from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s bring a different problem: solid aluminum branch wiring. The wire itself is fine; the terminations are not. Aluminum expands and contracts more than copper, works loose in a receptacle screw, and starts heating. That is why you see warm cover plates and outlets that stop working intermittently in a lot of Southern Hills and Sunset Acres houses.
Signs it is time
Two-prong ungrounded outlets throughout the house. Fabric-covered cable visible in the attic or basement. Warm switch or outlet plates. Lights that dim when an appliance starts. A fuse box, or a panel that has been added onto twice. Burnt smell around a receptacle. Frequent bulb failures on one circuit. Any one of those deserves a look; three or more usually means rewiring is cheaper than chasing failures one at a time.
How we approach a rewire
We start with a walkthrough and a written scope — how many circuits, which rooms, what the panel needs, and how much wall and ceiling opening the job requires. Then we run new copper home runs from a new or upgraded panel, add dedicated circuits for kitchen counters, laundry, HVAC, and bathrooms, install AFCI and GFCI protection where code requires it, ground and bond everything properly, and label the panel. We pull the permit, meet the City of Shreveport inspector, and hand you a house that will pass any buyer's inspection for the next several decades.
Partial rewires are a real option
Not every house needs everything replaced at once. A very common Shreveport project is rewiring the kitchen and bathrooms, replacing the panel, and pulling new circuits for HVAC and laundry, while leaving sound post-1970 romex in the bedrooms alone. That approach removes the highest-risk wiring and the code deficiencies most likely to show up on an inspection report, for a fraction of a full rewire.
Ready to get started?
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