The Damage Happens Inside the Wall
A rewire is two jobs stitched together. Cable travels horizontally through whatever service space the house has, and that part leaves nothing behind. Then there is the drop: getting cable down or across inside a wall to its termination point. Every opening in your house comes out of that second part.
What decides it is concealed. What is inside the cavity, what crosses it, how the wall was built, whether the old cable will lead the new one through. None of it can be seen from a room, which is why an estimate written from the doorway starts moving in week two.
So the honest version is a count rather than a percentage, and it openly carries its own margin of error. Houses do surprise a sample, often enough that the count is written with its assumptions beside it, and any movement in it happens in front of you rather than in an invoice at the end.
What You Are Left Holding Afterward
A rewire is the largest thing that will ever happen inside a house's walls, and the part of it that outlives everyone involved is the paperwork.
So it is treated as a deliverable rather than an afterthought: the opening count with its assumptions written beside it, photographs of every place that was opened, and a panel schedule that describes the house as it is now. All three are yours whatever you decide to do next.
Whoever opens a wall in that house in twenty years is working from that set or from nothing, and which of those it is gets decided now, by us, on your job.
San Tan Valley Rewiring Questions
1.How long does a whole house take?
Weeks, and the spread is wide. Partly the opening count, and partly that the work has hold points in it: a rough inspection before anything gets closed up, a final one after trim-out, and neither sits on our calendar. A house that opens in a dozen places finishes sooner than one that opens in fifty, which is what the assessment establishes before anybody commits to a date.
2.Do you patch the holes, or do I?
We close and finish them ready for paint and match the texture as closely as the existing finish allows. Paint is a separate trade and matching an aged wall color is its own problem, which is why it gets said early. Most people repaint the affected rooms anyway and plan for it from the start.
3.Will the ceilings have to come down?
Usually not: the attic gives access from above and ceiling points are reached from there. Where it changes is under a vaulted ceiling, a dropped soffit, or a room with another room above it, and those areas get identified at the assessment while the plan can still change.
4.My exterior walls are block. What happens there?
Worth asking early. A solid wall with no cavity cannot be fished, so the circuit is furred out, run in a surface raceway, or brought to that point from another direction. All three are ordinary, and they look very different in a finished room, so the choice gets put to you.
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