Licensed Electricians in Richmond

Serving Richmond for Over 50 Years

John Moore has been a proud member of the Richmond community since 1965. Starting as a plumbing company, John Moore has helped thousands of homeowners over the years. In 2005, we began offering electrical services, and today we can say that we’ve fixed hundreds of Richmond homes’ electrical systems. Whether you’re rewiring an old home with a safer wiring system, replacing a recalled breaker panel, installing recessed lighting, or bringing an old home up to code, we have the electricians that can guarantee a job well done.

If you live in an older home that still runs on an outdated electrical system, we can upgrade your home with safer and more efficient GFCI grounded outlets, PVC insulated copper wires, and a new breaker panel with top-of-the-line safety features. If you have outlets that don’t work, circuits that won’t reset, experience frequent power surges, or want to install new light fixtures around your home, John Moore’s electricians can help with that, too. Even if you just want a routine inspection to ensure your electrical system functions as it should, you can rely on John Moore.

Notice: If you’re dealing with an electrical emergency, please call your electrical service provider immediately to shut off power to your home and call 9-1-1 or the Richmond Fire Department at (281) 232-6871 to extinguish any fires before calling John Moore.

John Moore's Electrical Services Include:

Ready for an electrical system that functions as it should? Call 713-730-2525 to schedule our next available electrician.

Electrical Panel Inspection, Repairs, and Replacements

Your home’s electrical panel’ also commonly referred to as a breaker panel or distribution panel’ divvies up all the electricity running through your home to outlets, appliances, and lights as you use them. Two critical functions of your electrical panel are grounding any excess energy that enters into your system and turning off power to any areas in your home that are drawing unsafe amounts of electricity. If you live in a home built before the 1990s that uses its original distribution panel, you may want to check to make sure that it hasn’t been discontinued or recalled. Some older electrical panel models fail to shut off power in the case of a power surge, potentially leading to dangerous explosions or fires. If your electrical panel is outdated, call a licensed electrician as soon as possible to have it replaced with a new, safe electrical panel.

No matter how new or old your home is, it is recommended to have your electrical panel inspected every few years or before remodeling your home or adding any new appliances. One of the common issues we check for are circuits malfunctions, which can lead to a circuit that won’t reset after it trips. If you notice that a circuit in your breaker panel won’t reset, you should call a licensed electrician to replace the burnt circuit with a new one. Because of the high levels of electricity that your electrical panel handles, you should never attempt to replace any components by yourself unless you are a qualified electrician so that you don’t run the risk of electrocution.

Rewiring Richmond Services for Safety and Efficiency

Your home’s electrical wires are an important piece of the puzzle for your home’s electrical system. The breaker box can’t do it all; your wiring carries the electricity from the box to the various electrical components around your home. Modern electrical wires are made of copper wire and insulated with a durable, heat-resistant PVC plastic. The copper wire is conductive, but also provides just enough electrical resistance to ensure that your wires don’t overheat. The PVC plastic prevents the wire inside from creating sparks by coming into contact with another wire or conductive surface.

Older homes built before 1970 may have a wiring system made of aluminum wiring, which is known to overheat, melt insulation, and in some cases, start fires inside the walls of homes. In addition, wiring systems built before 1990 utilized a plastic insulation that is known to grow brittle as it ages, especially in Richmond’s summer heat. If you live in an older home with its original wiring system still intact, you may want to call John Moore for a wiring inspection to ensure that your system is safe.

If you notice outlets that don’t work, lights that flicker, or a humming sound from your walls, you may have an electrical issue that could lead to a dangerous malfunction. No matter your home’s age, pests are a sneaky problem. Mice and other rodents are known to nibble on wiring, exposing the wire beneath the insulation (or chewing through wires altogether!). If we notice that your home has rodents in addition to wiring malfunctions, we will refer our pest control team to rid your home of any rodents so that the same problem doesn’t happen again.