Electrical Remodeling That Prepares Your Jacksonville Home for the Next 30 Years
Old homes in Jacksonville have charm, character, and unfortunately, outdated electrical systems never designed for modern life. When you remodel a kitchen, finish a basement, or add a home office, you have one chance to fix the wiring behind your walls. Our electrical remodeling team focuses on home electrical upgrade projects that eliminate fire hazards, add capacity for today's appliances, and meet current NEC codes including AFCI protection and arc fault breakers. Unlike a service call that fixes one outlet, remodeling work rewires entire rooms or floors. We help homeowners plan kitchen electrical remodel layouts with dedicated circuits for each appliance, bathroom electrical remodel upgrades with proper GFCI placement and exhaust fan wiring, and complete rewiring old house projects that replace knob-and-tube or aluminum wiring with modern copper.
The Hidden Dangers Hiding Inside Your Jacksonville Walls
We open walls every week in Jacksonville and find the same problems. Cloth-covered wire from the 1940s where the insulation crumbles when touched. Aluminum wiring from the 1960s and 70s that has loosened at every connection, creating overheated outlets and flickering lights. Undersized 14 AWG wire running to kitchen countertops where modern appliances draw 20 amps on a 15-amp circuit. Shared neutrals that confuse AFCI protection and arc fault breakers into constant tripping. No dedicated circuits for the microwave, dishwasher, disposal, or refrigerator — meaning running the microwave while the toaster is on trips the breaker. We also discover hidden junction boxes buried behind drywall (a code violation), improperly spliced wires without junction boxes, and three-prong outlets installed on ungrounded circuits. Our electrical remodeling service identifies every issue during your renovation planning phase, not after the drywall is hung and painted.
Every electrical remodeling project we complete includes these critical upgrades:
- Full home electrical upgrade with AFCI protection on all living spaces, bedrooms, and family rooms per NEC 210.12
- Installation of arc fault breakers in your panel to replace standard breakers on affected circuits
- Wire gauge upgrade from 14 AWG to 12 AWG for kitchen, dining, laundry, and bathroom circuits requiring 20-amp capacity
- Dedicated circuits for each major appliance: refrigerator, microwave, dishwasher, disposal, washing machine, gas dryer, furnace, and sump pump
- Kitchen electrical remodel including two small-appliance circuits per NEC, island receptacle placement, under-cabinet lighting, and range hood wiring
- Bathroom electrical remodel with GFCI protection on every outlet, timer switches for exhaust fans, and wiring for heated floors or towel warmers
- Rewiring old house including removal of accessible old wiring, installation of new Romex, and fish wire through walls using flexible drill bits and glow rods
- Panel labeling update and creation of a circuit directory for your remodeled spaces
How Long Does Electrical Remodeling Take Before Drywall Goes Up?
A kitchen electrical remodel in a typical Jacksonville home where walls are already opened takes 6 to 10 hours spread across one to two days. This includes running new dedicated circuits from the panel to the kitchen, installing countertop receptacles every 48 inches per code, wiring the island or peninsula, connecting under-cabinet lighting, and verifying all AFCI protection and GFCI requirements. A bathroom electrical remodel takes 3 to 5 hours, including GFCI outlets, ventilation fan wiring, vanity lighting, and any heated floor circuits. A full rewiring old house project for a 1,500-2,000 square foot home with walls already opened (gut renovation) requires 3 to 5 days, depending on attic and crawlspace accessibility. If we are fishing wire through walls without opening them — a service we offer for homeowners who want home electrical upgrade without destroying plaster — add 50-100% more time per room. Fishing wires requires cutting small access holes, using fish tape and glow rods, and patching afterward. The most complex scenario is rewiring a finished basement where all ceilings are drywalled. We can still fish wire through walls but expect 2-3 days for a full basement electrical remodel. We always provide a room-by-room timeline so your general contractor can schedule drywall around our work.
Why AFCI Protection and Arc Fault Breakers Are Not Optional (Even If Your Inspector Misses Them)
If your home was built before 2000, you probably have standard breakers or a fuse panel. Modern NEC codes require AFCI protection on nearly every living space circuit: bedrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, family rooms, sunrooms, hallways, and even laundry rooms. Arc fault breakers detect dangerous sparking caused by loose connections, pinched wires, or damaged cords. When a standard breaker sees this arcing, it ignores it until the current reaches 15 or 20 amps. By then, a fire may have already started. AFCI protection trips within milliseconds of detecting an arc, stopping the hazard before ignition. During a kitchen electrical remodel, we install AFCI protection on all circuits except those already protected by GFCI (code allows GFCI-only for countertop receptacles). For bathroom electrical remodel, GFCI receptacles handle shock protection, but the circuit supplying that bathroom must still have AFCI protection at the panel unless it serves only a single bathroom with a dedicated 20-amp circuit — local amendments vary. When we perform a full home electrical upgrade or rewiring old house project, every new circuit receives either AFCI protection or combination AFCI/GFCI breakers. Wire gauge upgrade matters because 14 AWG wire on a 15-amp breaker cannot support modern kitchen loads. We install 12 AWG wire with 20-amp breakers for all kitchen, dining, bathroom, and laundry circuits. Dedicated circuits eliminate nuisance tripping from competing appliances and separate your refrigerator and freezer from AFCI protection requirements (they can have standard breakers because nuisance trips would spoil food). Every electrical remodeling project in Jacksonville includes a post-construction AFCI protection test using a specialized outlet tester that verifies each arc fault breaker functions correctly.
Call our electrical remodeling team in Jacksonville before your contractor closes those walls. We deliver modern, code-compliant electrical systems that protect your family and your investment.