New square footage tied into the house you already have - with the panel checked before demo starts and our dates set by your contractor's schedule, not ours.
Adding on is not the same job as building new. On a ground-up home, the electrical starts from nothing and everything downstream is designed together. On an addition or a remodel, the house already has a service, a panel, a set of circuits, and whatever wiring practice was normal the decade it was built - and the new primary suite, bonus room, or opened-up kitchen has to work with all of it.
We take these projects from homeowners directly and from the general contractors running them, and the electrical questions are the same either way. Can the existing service carry the finished house? Is there physical room in the panel for the breakers this will take? What is actually in these walls, and will the new work tie into it cleanly? Which existing circuits get modified, and what does current code require once we touch them?
Those questions have honest answers, and the right time to get them is before demolition - not in week six when a wall is open and the panel turns out to be full. That's the single biggest difference between a remodel that runs smoothly and one that stalls: we evaluate the existing system up front, price the real scope including a service upgrade if one is genuinely needed, and then work inside the sequence your contractor has already built.
The most common blowup on a remodel budget is discovering in week six that the service can't carry the finished house. Running the load calculation before demolition turns that from an emergency into a line item you approved on day one - or rules it out entirely.
An addition shouldn't leave your home with two electrical systems that barely speak. We extend existing circuits with the right methods for what's already there, keep junctions accessible, correct grounding where the work touches it, and leave one coherent, properly labeled system behind.
Demolition gives one-time access to wiring you'll never see again. That's the moment to replace a questionable run, add the circuits the kitchen has always needed, or pre-wire for a future charger - at a fraction of what any of it costs once the drywall is back.
Electrical sits between framing and insulation, so a slipped rough-in pushes every trade behind it. We take our dates from your contractor's schedule, show up on them, and call the GC directly the moment anything threatens one instead of letting it be discovered.
Call us before the first wall comes down if any of these apply:
If the evaluation shows the whole home's wiring is at the end of its life rather than just short on capacity, we'll tell you that plainly - see whole-home rewiring - because doing it during a remodel is far cheaper than doing it after.
Remodel pricing depends less on the new square footage than on what the existing house makes us work around.
The evaluation and consultation are free, and you'll have a firm written price before anything is scheduled. We also partner with Wisetack for financing on approved credit. See financing details.
That is the first thing we check, and we check it before demolition rather than after. We run a load calculation for the finished house - the existing home plus the new square footage, its heating and cooling, and its new circuits - and count whether there is physical room in the panel for the breakers it will take. Sometimes the answer is that the panel is fine. When it is not, you find out while it is still a line item in your budget instead of a stoppage in week six.
Usually, but it depends on what is already in the walls. Modern grounded cable ties in cleanly. Ungrounded two-wire, aluminum branch circuits, cloth-insulated conductors, or brittle old runs need to be handled specifically - proper connectors, accessible junctions, and in some cases replacing a run rather than extending it. We tell you which category your house falls into after we have actually looked, not before.
No. New work has to meet current code, and circuits we modify or extend generally have to meet current requirements for things like arc-fault and ground-fault protection. Untouched parts of the house are not automatically required to be rebuilt. We will point out anything genuinely unsafe that we find along the way, and we will be clear about which items are required by the permit and which are our recommendation.
Yes, and that is how these projects should run. We take our dates from the GC's sequence - rough-in after framing and before insulation, trim after paint - and we tell the GC directly if anything threatens a date so it can be resequenced instead of discovered. Our goal on a remodel is to be the trade nobody has to chase.
Most of the time, yes. We plan the work so the parts of the home you are still living in keep working, and when a circuit or the whole service has to come down, you get the window in advance so you can plan around refrigeration, work-from-home, and bedtimes. Surprise outages in an occupied home are avoidable with a little planning, so we plan.
Yes. We pull the electrical permit, schedule the rough and final inspections with your municipality, and meet the inspector. On projects where the GC is pulling the general building permit, we coordinate our electrical permit and inspection dates with theirs so the two do not collide.
Remodels don't usually stall because of the new work - they stall because of what nobody checked in the old house. An hour at your panel before demolition tells you whether the service carries the finished home, what's in the walls the addition ties into, and what the electrical actually costs, all while it's still a budget conversation instead of a stopped jobsite.
If you're a general contractor, you already know electrical sits on the critical path between framing and insulation. We'll take our dates from your schedule and we won't be the trade you're chasing. Call and talk to a real person, get a firm written price, and know that if anything isn't right after we leave, Grider always makes it right. Grider Electric is licensed and insured, based in north Oklahoma City, and works on homes and new construction only - serving Oklahoma City, Edmond, Arcadia, Guthrie, Yukon, Moore, Norman, Mustang, Piedmont, Bethany, The Village, Nichols Hills, and the Deer Creek area.