Ed's Electric has wired homes in every corner of Shreveport for 40+ years. The electrical work each neighborhood actually needs varies wildly — Highland bungalows still have original knob-and-tube, South Highlands is full of 1970s aluminum branch wiring, and the newer Ellerbe Road subdivisions need Level 2 EV chargers and standby generators. Below is what we see most often across the city, block by block.
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Highland is one of Shreveport's oldest neighborhoods and it shows in the wiring. Most of the housing stock predates 1950, which means original knob-and-tube in the attic, cloth-insulated NM cable at the boxes, and 60- or 100-amp fuse panels still hanging in the hall. Homeowners insurance carriers now regularly refuse to renew policies on knob-and-tube, so most of our Highland work is either a partial rewire (knob-and-tube pulled and replaced with modern NM-B copper) or a full whole-house rewire paired with a 200A panel upgrade. Plaster walls need a light touch — we fish from the attic and closets and keep cut-ins small and inconspicuous.
Broadmoor is a 1940s–1960s neighborhood with a mix of brick ranches and split-levels. The most common Broadmoor call is a 100A or 150A panel upgrade to 200A — the original service simply doesn't have room for AFCI/GFCI breaker density, an EV charger, and a modern kitchen. We also see a lot of Federal Pacific Stab-Lok and Zinsco panels here that need to come out on safety grounds alone. Attic access is generally good, so panel swaps and add-on circuits are usually one-day jobs.
South Highlands has larger midcentury and mid-1970s homes with a lot of aluminum branch wiring from the 1965–1975 era. Aluminum expands and contracts at outlets and switches, loosens connections, and is the leading cause of hot-outlet and hidden-in-wall failures in this neighborhood. We pigtail with copper at every device using AL/CU-rated CO/ALR connectors when the homeowner wants the least-invasive fix, and we rewire when the aluminum is failing in more than a handful of locations.
Southern Hills is a large 1960s–1980s residential area in southwest Shreveport. Most calls here are panel upgrades, generator installs, and Level 2 EV charger installs — the housing stock is old enough that many services are 100A or 150A and need to come up to 200A before you can add a 48A charger or a 22kW standby generator. Attached-garage layouts make EV charger runs short and clean.
Ellerbe Woods and the broader Ellerbe Road corridor is newer construction — mostly late-1990s through 2010s subdivisions. Panels are typically already 200A but often lack whole-home surge protection (NEC 230.67 now requires it on any panel replacement or service upgrade) and rarely have a generator inlet pre-wired. Most calls out here are Level 2 EV chargers, standby generators with automatic transfer switches, and outdoor lighting for the larger acreage lots.
Springlake sits south of Southern Hills with a mix of established 1970s–1990s homes. Common calls include panel upgrades, ceiling-fan installs on vaulted ceilings, outdoor patio and landscape lighting, and hot-tub and pool-pump wiring. Backup power is popular here — most homes have room for a standby generator on the side yard with a natural-gas or propane feed.
University Terrace, near LSUS and Centenary, is another older neighborhood with a strong rental component. Landlord calls dominate: repair permits, insurance-inspection punch lists, hot outlets, GFCI adds in kitchens and baths, smoke-detector wiring, and quick turnarounds between tenants. We can knock out most rental repair lists in a single visit and send the paid invoice with before/after photos.
Hyde Park has a mix of older bungalows and updated 1950s–1960s homes. Recessed lighting retrofits, chandeliers in the two-story foyers, under-cabinet LED, and panel upgrades are the majority of our work here. We also see a fair number of home-inspection repair lists for buyers and sellers — double-tapped breakers, ungrounded outlets, missing GFCI protection, and open-neutral receptacles.
Brookwood is a smaller 1960s–1970s residential pocket in southwest Shreveport. Panel upgrades, AFCI/GFCI adds, and generator installs are common. Many Brookwood homes were built with detached workshops or storage buildings that need proper subpanel installations with dedicated grounding electrode systems.
Stoner Hill is one of the older neighborhoods east of I-49 with pre-1950s housing stock. Rewires, panel replacements, and grounding upgrades are the most common calls. We handle a lot of home-inspection punch lists here — the original wiring was ungrounded two-wire NM, and modern real-estate transactions require at least GFCI protection to close.
Caddo Heights is an older southeastern Shreveport neighborhood with a mix of 1930s–1960s homes. Common calls are service upgrades, meter-base replacements, storm-damaged service masts, and full rewires on the oldest homes. Insurance-driven work is heavy here — carriers require documented panel and wiring updates on many of these houses.
Anderson Island, along the Red River, has a mix of older homes and newer builds with waterfront exposure. Common calls include GFCI protection on outdoor and dock circuits, service-mast repairs after storms, boathouse and dock lighting on wet-rated circuits, and standby generators for outage protection during river-related weather events.
Shreve Isle is a newer high-end development along the Red River. Most calls are Level 2 EV chargers, whole-home standby generators, outdoor landscape and dock lighting, and smart-home wiring for automation systems (Lutron, Control4). Panels are typically 200A or 400A meter-main combos and already surge-protected.
Southern Loop covers the newer subdivisions south of Bert Kouns near Ellerbe. Newer construction means 200A panels, but many were built before NEC 230.67 whole-home surge protection was mandatory, and none were pre-wired for the current wave of EV charging. Most Southern Loop calls today are EV chargers, standby generators, outdoor lighting, and pool/hot-tub circuits.
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