PECO is the electric company for all of Philadelphia County, which keeps one part of the job simple. Say we upgrade a service, replace a meter base or move a service entrance. We schedule the disconnect and reconnect with PECO. We handle that. PECO owns the lines and the meter. From the meter into your house, every wire, box and breaker is ours.
Inside a 1949-era home here, the list of things we find is long and familiar. Knob-and-tube wiring, live in some spots, abandoned in others, buried under insulation in a few more. Fuse panels or early 60-amp and 100-amp services. Two-prong outlets throughout. And in houses renovated during the 1960s and 1970s, aluminum branch wiring that was never corrected. We inspect before we quote, so the price on paper reflects what is actually in the walls.
Philadelphia also carries a recent flood memory. The remnants of Hurricane Ida caused major flash flooding and outages across the city in September 2021. A panel that was underwater can look fine and fail later. If your basement flooded, have the electrical inspected before you trust it. We also serve Bucks, Montgomery and Delaware counties in Pennsylvania and Burlington and Camden counties in New Jersey.