Electrician in Lacoochee, FL

Lacoochee's housing goes back well before that median. Cummer Sons Cypress Co. opened an electric cypress sawmill and box factory here in 1922 and built houses for its workers, who paid an extra 5 cents a week for electricity. The last timber was milled in 1959, and a 2003 local history noted a cypress bungalow from the company's days still standing.

In a house from the mill years, we trace which circuits are original before adding to them.

Homes built before the late 1970s are the ones where aluminum branch wiring turns up.

When an insurer's 4-point inspection flags the electrical system, we correct the items on the report.

The same survey counts 158 of an estimated 272 homes as mobile homes. Its margin of error on that number is wide, plus or minus 103, so read it as a sign that manufactured homes are a real part of the housing here, not as a count.

We replace the meter base and feeder that serve a manufactured home.

In 2014, a state grant funded Pasco County's project to upgrade three water-supply wells serving Lacoochee and extend its central water system to areas then served by individual wells. A Lacoochee house outside those lines depends on its own pump, so a fault in the pump circuit leaves it without water.

Moving a used mobile home onto a Lacoochee lot brings in Pasco's preset certification: the home has to be newer than 1976, and the form checks for a listed smoke detector and for wiring connected under the electrical code. A licensed installer, contractor, architect, or engineer signs it, and if a missing or dead smoke detector is found, it's ours to replace before that inspection.

Lacoochee homes built in or before the community's 1970 median year predate the 1975 electrical code, the first to call for GFCI protection at bathroom receptacles. In one of those bathrooms, adding it now means a GFCI outlet or breaker on the circuit.