10 kinds of work
Electrical services in Rome, GA
Everything on this page is electrical work, done under a Georgia electrical license by one owner-operated company in Rome. Each service has its own page on what the work involves, what moves the price, and the signs it's the right call.
The full list
Start with the one that sounds like your problem. If none of them quite fit, pick the closest and describe the symptom in the notes. Naming the service is our job, not yours.
Electrical Repair & Troubleshooting
Dead outlets, GFCI trips, flickering lights and half-dead circuits, traced to the cause instead of guessed at.
What's involvedPanel Upgrades & Breaker Box Replacement
Honest panel verdicts, Federal Pacific and Zinsco replacements, and 200-amp upgrades for houses that outgrew their service.
What's involvedWhole-House Surge Protection
A surge protector wired into your panel that clamps voltage spikes before they reach anything with a circuit board.
What's involvedLighting Installation
Recessed layouts planned before the saw, heavy fixtures on the right box, landscape lighting, and dimmers that behave.
What's involvedCeiling Fan Installation
New fans, replacements, and the fan-rated boxes that keep them from wobbling loose.
What's involvedEV Charger Installation
Level 2 charging circuits sized to what your panel can actually carry, permitted and inspected.
What's involvedGenerator Installation
Standby systems sized by real load, and the inlet and interlock that make a portable generator legal.
What's involvedEmergency Electrical Help
What counts as a real emergency, the exact first moves, and what can safely wait until morning.
What's involvedCommercial Electrical Work
Lighting retrofits, added circuits, exterior lighting and panel work for storefronts, offices, churches and small warehouses.
What's involvedElectrical Inspections & Older-Home Wiring
Pre-purchase and insurance inspections, aluminum and knob and tube answers, and rewiring scoped to what is actually wrong.
What's involvedHow to use one visit well
Group the small electrical jobs
The trip is a fixed cost whatever happens on it, and that's as true for an electrician as for any trade. Three small jobs booked together cost meaningfully less per job than three separate callouts, and the power only has to go off once.
So before you call, walk the house and write down the electrical annoyances you've stopped noticing. The outlet that quit years ago. The switch that doesn't seem to do anything. The hallway flicker you've learned to live with. Small symptoms are sometimes small, and sometimes they're the visible end of something worth finding while we're already there.
Commonly grouped together
- A new fan or fixture: dimmers, dead outlets and switch swaps in the same visit
- While the panel is open: a whole-house surge protector, corrected labels, that one breaker you've never trusted
- Selling or buying: the electrical items on an inspection report, handled in one pass
- EV charger going in: the panel and capacity check that has to happen first anyway
- Outdoor round: exterior outlets brought up to GFCI, porch lights, the floodlight that's never worked
Straight about scope
What we don't do
Worth knowing before you call, and it saves everyone a wasted visit. Electrical work runs right up to the edge of several other licensed trades, and we stop where our license stops.
Not our trade
- Gas piping. A standby generator or a gas range needs a fuel line, and that belongs to a licensed gas fitter. We do the electrical side of those jobs and tell you plainly where our part ends.
- HVAC. We run circuits and disconnects for the equipment. Refrigerant, ductwork and the units themselves belong with an HVAC contractor.
- Plumbing. A water heater swap is two trades in one job: the water connections are the plumber's, the circuit and wiring are ours.
- The utility side of the meter. The service drop from the pole and the meter itself belong to the power company. If that line is damaged, stay clear of it and call them. We can tell you which side of the line a problem sits on.
Where Georgia law draws the line
One rule is worth knowing as a homeowner, because it applies to whoever you hire:
- Electrical is licensed at any job size. Georgia has no small-job exemption: swapping an outlet needs the same license as rewiring a house. The rule is there because wiring done badly burns houses down, sometimes years after the work, and a license means someone competent answers for what's behind the drywall. Holding it is the reason Journey Electric exists as its own company alongside the handyman side.
Ask any electrician, including us, about the license before work starts. More in the FAQs.
What about the rest of the list?
Everything on this page is electrical, and electrical is all this business does. The sticking door, the drywall patch, the soft deck board: those go to Journey Home Services, our sister company in Rome, run by the same owner and covering handyman and home repair.
Two businesses, two quotes, and neither one guessing at a trade it does not hold a license for. Visit Journey Home Services.
Not sure if it's electrical?
Describe the symptom rather than the service. Working out which trade it belongs to is part of the job, and if it isn't electrical we'll say so.