Electrical Evaluations for Home Sales in Wesley Chapel, FL
Reading the Wiring a Seller Leaves Behind|Licensed & Insured, EC13011268
An owner may change a house's wiring more than once over the years, and not every change reaches the county's records. Before a Wesley Chapel house is listed, our electrical evaluation looks for that work, one added circuit at a time, and for whatever months with nobody home may have left behind.
Mention the listing date if you have one.
Call (352) 251-2795, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or send a request online. Calls after hours are returned the next business day.
At a glance
Reading a Wesley Chapel House by Its Paper Trail
Half the owner households in Wesley Chapel moved in during 2014 or earlier, by census estimate. A seller who has lived in a house that long has had years to add a lanai fan circuit, a pool heat pump, or a freezer outlet in the garage, and any of those may or may not have a permit behind it. A missing record doesn't always mean a problem, and a record on file doesn't prove the work is still sound.
Houses here also stand empty between owners. Of roughly 2,000 vacant homes in the estimates, a small number sat empty while listed for sale, and a similar number were sold but not yet moved into. When a house has stood vacant a year or more with its power off, Pasco issues an electrical safety permit before the power comes back, and the county's electrical inspector makes sure nothing was worked on and that switching it back on is safe. No electrical work is allowed on that permit. An evaluation tests devices with the power on, so in that case the county's step comes first, and any fixes follow later as separate work.
How it runs
Where the Evaluation Fits in a Listing Timeline
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Signs of water or burning
If a leak or a storm put water on outlets, fixtures, or the panel while nobody was home, don't turn that power back on until an electrician checks it. If anything smokes, sparks, or smells of burning, leave the house and call 911.
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Gather what the house came with
Permits you kept, invoices from an earlier electrician, and the inspection report from your own purchase are all worth pulling together before the visit. They're optional, and the evaluation goes ahead without them.
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Added circuits checked against their records
Where you've gathered paperwork, our electrician checks each added circuit against it at the spot the circuit serves, and points out any that has nothing on paper behind it.
What we cover
Where a Wesley Chapel Evaluation Looks Before a Sale
Circuits added over the years
For a circuit put in after the builder left, the evaluation looks at what its spot asks for: ground-fault protection where it's damp or outdoors, a disconnect within sight of a pool heat pump, and no splices left outside a covered box.
A stretch when the house sat empty
With nobody home, small faults go unnoticed, and months like that can leave a GFCI that no longer trips when tested, a smoke alarm chirping on a dead battery, a garage outlet with its cable chewed, or a breaker switched off with no note saying why. Our electrician looks for each one, checks whether the smoke alarms are in place and working, and lists what turns up.
Changes with no record at all
Then there are changes that should have had a permit and didn't, such as an outlet tapped off a neighboring circuit. Some are wrong whatever the paperwork says: a fixture hung on a box not made for its weight, or an extension cord stapled along a garage wall as a permanent feed. The evaluation describes each one and what would put it right.
The panel at the end of the trail
Every added circuit ends at the panel, so the evaluation finishes there, where the directory is the house's own record of what changed. A directory entry naming a room the breaker no longer feeds points back to a change the paperwork missed.
Pricing
What the Evaluation and the Fixes Cost
Repair and troubleshooting visits are billed by the hour from arrival: $100 residential, $150 commercial, one-hour minimum, then half-hour increments, plus materials. No trip charge and no service fee. No hidden fees: the 3.5% surcharge on card and ACH payments is listed in our terms.
Custom homes and large or multi-phase projects are estimated as soon as we can, or on the timeline your project sets.
We don't do upfront pricing. No job has a standard price with us: each one is tailored to the property and the work you've asked for, and priced once we've seen it.
We offer free estimates on installs, upgrades, and replacements in our service area. Estimates aren't free when the job needs troubleshooting or testing to price, falls after hours or outside our service area, needs several meetings to gather information, or is new construction or a custom remodel with multi-party walk-throughs. For most jobs, estimates arrive by email by the end of the next business day, and quotes are good for 30 days.
Our warranty
04If something we installed fails because of our workmanship within 30 days of completion, we waive the hourly labor to put it right. Materials Kennedy Electric purchases for your job carry the manufacturer's one-year warranty. To replace defective materials we supplied, or materials damaged by storm, flood, fire, or other acts of God, we charge a reduced warranty labor rate of $50 an hour residential and $75 an hour commercial. The warranty does not cover materials not purchased by Kennedy Electric, work performed by the customer, or materials the customer purchased or damaged. Our warranty terms are printed on the estimate, the invoice, and the receipt, and the product boxes stay with you so you can register each product with its manufacturer.
Our Wesley Chapel rental just went empty, and we plan to list it. Does it need the county's safety permit first?
The garage door opener was replaced without a permit. Will the evaluation flag it?
The pool heat pump circuit has no permit we can find. Can you tell us whether it's legal?
The buyer already hired a home inspector. Does the evaluation repeat that?
A breaker in the panel is switched off, and nobody remembers why. Will the evaluation turn it back on?
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Past Visits, Recounted by Homeowners
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Give us the address, whether anyone lives there now, and roughly how long it has stood empty if it has. Our office will reach you during business hours.