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Storm Damage Electrical Repair in Port Richey, FL
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Say whether any wet wire has already been pulled out of the walls.
A flooded house in the City of Port Richey gets its power back in stages. The wiring is checked before anything is switched on, the cable the water reached is replaced, and where a new run joins wiring the water didn't reach, the joint is made in a junction box that stays reachable.
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Before the Power
A Wiring Check Before the Power Returns
The City of Port Richey's hurricane guidance for residents puts the evaluation in a licensed electrician's hands: assessing the damage and deciding the course of the repair. Checking a flooded home's wiring before the power is turned back on is work we do.
Which circuits the water reached and how far along each one require an inspection of that house, so until then the flooded circuits stay off. Don't touch a panel the water reached.
What an owner can do first
The city isn't requiring a permit to tear out wet material. Before the stained drywall goes out, mark the high-water line on a stud in each room. If the tear-out starts before the check, leave the old cable in the studs and don't cut or pull it. Its route shows which outlets share a circuit and where each run climbs out of the wet wall.
Which cable is replaced
How Far Up Each Run the Replacement Goes
Where the water rose as high as the outlets, the wet wiring is replaced, the city says, citing the Florida Building Code.
Runs that travel sideways
In a house built on a slab and wired from the attic, cable passes from outlet to outlet through holes bored in the studs, at about outlet height. Water that reached the outlets covered that whole stretch, so it's replaced from box to box, along with the devices and the boxes it covered.
Drops that come down from the attic
Switches and the first outlet on a circuit are fed by cable that comes down inside the wall from the attic. The water reached the bottom of that drop. It can be replaced whole, backed up into the attic, or cut above the wet section and joined there to new cable running down to the box. Either way, the joint is made in cable the water never reached, above the high-water mark with room to spare.
Where the junction boxes end up
A junction box's cover has to stay accessible after the drywall goes back up. That leaves two places for one. The first is the attic, where a drop replaced whole is joined to the old cable. The second is the wall, above the wet section, where the box shows afterward as a blank cover plate. A room with several cut drops ends up with several plates.
Permit and inspections
The Permit and What the City's Inspector Looks At
Replacing flooded wiring takes a city electrical permit.
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1. Rough-in, with the joints still in view
The rough-in inspection covers the new cable, the boxes, and the joints in the junction boxes. Someone has to be there to let the inspector in. New drywall needs a city building permit, and it goes up after the rough-in has passed.
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2. Final, once the walls are closed
With the drywall up, the outlets, switches, and cover plates go on, and the final inspection follows. If the service was disconnected, we coordinate the reconnection with the power company.
What happens to the electrical service when the house goes up?
Billing
What's Billed by the Hour and What's Quoted
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.
Replacing the wet runs is quoted in writing before that work starts.
How long the new wiring is under warranty
03If 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.
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Send Us the Address and the High-Water Mark
Add whether the drywall is out and whether the house has power. Our office will reach you during business hours.