The typical Levittown house dates to 1956, and a lot of its first wiring is still on duty. Knob-and-tube remnants, fuse boxes, 60-amp services and ungrounded outlets are common finds here. It does mean central air, an electric dryer and a modern kitchen can push an old service past its limit. We upgrade the service, swap the fuse box for breakers and ground the outlets, in one project where we can.
PECO Energy Company delivers the power. When a storm drops the lines, PECO restores them. Everything from the meter into the house is our work. The remnants of Hurricane Ida crossed Bucks County in September 2021. Flash flooding, widespread outages and a tornado all came the same night. Since then, surge protection and standby generators come up in a lot of Levittown conversations. We install both.
Our electricians work directly for Thomas Edison Electric, never through a subcontractor. They dispatch from their own homes across the area. So a call from 19055 or 19057 reaches someone nearby, any hour.