Residential Electrician in Point Place & Toledo
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Lighthouse Electric of Point Place is a licensed Ohio electrical contractor (license #50207), owned by Casey Grup and working out of Point Place, the lakeside neighborhood of Toledo. The company handles residential electrical work across Toledo and the surrounding communities, from a single dead outlet to a whole-house rewire. It is bonded, carries general liability insurance, and carries workers' compensation.
The work is split about evenly between homes and commercial buildings, so the same company that wires a restaurant kitchen or a medical office is the one working in your basement. Everything runs out of the truck. There is no showroom to visit, so the first real conversation usually happens at your house, looking at the actual problem.
Repairs and troubleshooting
Most calls start with something that stopped working or something that does not feel right. Common ones:
- A dead outlet, or a run of outlets that quit together.
- A breaker that keeps tripping. There is more than one reason a breaker does that, and finding out which one you have is the point of the visit.
- Flickering or dimming lights, especially when it happens on more than one circuit or when a large appliance kicks on.
- A burning or hot plastic smell near an outlet, switch, or panel. Call rather than waiting to see whether it clears on its own. Also see emergency electrical service.
- GFCI outlets that will not reset, or that trip after rain.
- Outlets or switches that feel warm, buzz, or spark when something is plugged in or turned on.
Troubleshooting is its own skill. Swapping out a device does not always fix it, because what failed is not always the part you can see. Lighthouse traces the circuit, finds where the problem actually is, and tells you what was found before parts get replaced.
Rewiring older homes
Point Place and the older Toledo neighborhoods have a lot of houses that were wired long before a household ran a microwave, a window unit, and a garage full of tools. Two kinds of old wiring come up in this work.
Knob-and-tube replacement
Knob-and-tube is the wiring found in many of the oldest houses in the area. If a home inspection or another contractor has told you that is what your house has, Lighthouse replaces it. New wiring goes in to serve the outlets, switches, and fixtures that were on the old circuits.
Aluminum branch-wiring remediation
Some houses have aluminum branch circuits rather than copper. If you have been told yours does, this is the work that addresses it. Lighthouse remediates the wiring at the connection points, at outlets, switches, and splices.
Whole-house rewiring
A full rewire replaces the branch circuits throughout the house and gives you grounded outlets, circuits laid out for the way the house is used now, and new wiring end to end. Lighthouse handles the permit and the inspection.
What it is like to live through: the work moves room by room, with small openings made where wiring has to be fished through walls and ceilings. How those openings get patched, and who patches them, is settled before the work starts. You walk the house with Casey first, so you know which rooms are being worked, roughly how long each stretch takes, when power is off in which part of the house, and what is going to be dusty. If something unexpected turns up behind the plaster, you hear about it before the work goes further, not on the final bill.
Rewiring is quoted per house after a walkthrough. Square footage, how many stories, plaster or drywall, whether there is a usable attic and basement, and how much of the old work has already been replaced all change the number.
Panel and service upgrades
Old wiring and an old panel usually arrive together. If your house still has a 100-amp service, a fuse box, or a panel with no room left for another circuit, that is its own job. A 100-amp to 200-amp upgrade runs about $5,200 in most cases. Full detail on what is involved is on the electrical panel upgrade page.
What a service call costs
A standard service call or diagnostic visit is $180.
Larger projects (a rewire, a panel upgrade, a generator, adding circuits) get a quote after a look at the house. Whether there is a trip fee for an estimate depends on the job; ask when you call and you will know before anyone drives out.
When we work
Regular hours are Monday through Friday, 7am to 5pm. Planned work is typically scheduled about a week out.
Service runs from Toledo down the I-75 corridor toward Dayton and the surrounding areas. Point Place, the rest of Toledo, and the nearby suburbs are home ground.
For sparking, a burning smell, water in a panel, or a house with no power at all, see emergency electrical service.