We work across Dallas and in the nearby cities of Highland Park, University Park, Richardson, Garland and Irving.
Highland Park and University Park govern themselves, though the city of Dallas surrounds them on every side. Richardson lies to the north, Garland to the northeast and Irving to the west, each a city with its own government and its own building inspectors.
From one city to the next, the electrical problems are much the same: a breaker that trips, an outlet that has gone dead, a panel with no room left for another circuit. What changes is the age of the houses and the way they were wired when they were built, and that shapes what a repair or an upgrade involves.
Wherever the house sits, a job runs in the same order, from the first few questions to a plan you agree to before any work begins.
For each community, a few of its ZIP codes are given as examples, not as a complete list. ZIP codes also cross city lines: 75205, for one, takes in parts of both Highland Park and University Park.
| Community | ZIP codes |
|---|---|
| Dallas | 75201, 75204, 75206, 75214, 75218, 75225, 75230, 75238 |
| Highland Park | 75205, 75219 |
| University Park | 75205 |
| Richardson | 75080 |
| Garland | 75040 |
| Irving | 75038, 75061 |
A ZIP code missing from the examples does not, on its own, mean the house is outside our area. Any of these will settle it:
Our area is Dallas and the nearby cities of Highland Park, University Park, Richardson, Garland and Irving. For a house in any other city, please call or use the request form and ask before counting on a visit.
Not always. Many addresses in Highland Park and University Park carry Dallas as the mailing city. For most repairs the difference matters little, but for work that needs a permit and an inspection, the city the house actually stands in is the one whose rules apply. The street address settles it.
The same symptom can mean different work depending on when a house was built and how often it has been remodeled. A few broad patterns hold across Dallas and its neighbors, though every house keeps its own history behind the walls.
Many of the older houses in the two towns date from the first half of the twentieth century, and many have been remodeled more than once. A single house can hold several generations of wiring: knob-and-tube in a wall nobody opened, cloth-covered cable from a mid-century update and modern cable feeding a newer kitchen. Plaster walls, finished attics and crawl spaces under pier-and-beam floors decide how new wire can be fished in, and tracing those layers comes before any choice between repairs and rewiring.
Single-story brick ranch houses line many streets across Dallas and its neighboring cities, most of them built in the decades after World War II. Many started with a 60- or 100-amp service, a few kitchen circuits and, in the earlier ones, two-prong outlets, sized for far less than today’s air conditioning, home offices and electric cars. Houses built from about the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s may also have aluminum branch wiring, which needs connectors made for it.
The style has one real advantage: an open attic over a single story makes new circuits easier to run than in a two-story house. Adding capacity to a ranch house often comes down to a panel upgrade and a few new runs through the attic rather than opening walls room by room.
Houses from the last few decades, and newer houses built where older ones once stood, usually start with a larger service, grounded outlets and GFCI protection in wet areas, with AFCI breakers in more recent work. Their questions are different: a panel that filled up as the household added a pool pump, an outdoor kitchen or an EV charger; builder-grade outlets and switches that wear out early; a garage outlet that trips whenever an old freezer starts.
Call or send a message with the street address and a short description of what the house is doing.
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