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Knob and Tube Wiring Removal Rhode Island

No Wall Damage. No Plaster Repair. Just Gone.

We remove knob and tube wiring through your outlets using specialized camera technology. Your horsehair plaster stays intact, your insurance gets approved, and your home stays safe without the mess every other electrician leaves behind.
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Camera System Nobody Else Has

We insert cameras through your outlets to locate and remove wiring from inside walls. No other electrician in the area uses this technology.

Zero to Minimal Wall Damage

Your horsehair plaster stays completely intact. If we need a small notch, it's minimal. We don't cut open walls like traditional electricians do.

Historic Home Specialists

We understand that horsehair plaster is nearly impossible to match. Our process preserves your home's original character and avoids costly plaster repair.

Insurance Documentation Provided

You'll receive a Certificate of Insurance when we're done because we know that's exactly what your insurance company is waiting for.

Knob and Tube Replacement Rhode Island

Your Insurance Company Gave You a Deadline

If your insurer found knob and tube wiring, you’re looking at 30 to 60 days before they drop your coverage. Most electricians will tell you they need to cut open your walls, tear through that horsehair plaster, and leave you with a repair bill that rivals the electrical work itself. We don’t work that way. We use a specialized camera system that goes through your existing outlets to inspect, locate, and remove knob and tube wiring without opening your walls. Your plaster stays intact. Your home keeps its character. And you get the documentation you need to keep your insurance. This matters in Rhode Island because so many homes here were built before 1950. That means horsehair plaster walls that can’t be matched, historic details worth preserving, and electrical systems that were never designed for how you live today. You shouldn’t have to destroy your home’s integrity just to make it safe.
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Non-Invasive Knob and Tube Removal

What You Get When the Work's Done

Your home becomes insurable, sellable, and safe without looking like a construction crew tore through it for three weeks.
  • Your insurance company approves coverage because the knob and tube wiring is completely gone and properly documented.
  • You can sell your home without buyers backing out during inspection or demanding tens of thousands off the price.
  • Your walls look exactly the same as they did before we started—no plaster repair, no texture matching, no repainting entire rooms.
  • You stop worrying about fire risk every time you plug in your coffee maker, laptop, and phone charger at the same time.
  • Your electrical system can actually handle modern appliances without overloading circuits that were designed for a few lamps and a radio.
  • Home inspectors sign off without hesitation, and buyers don't get cold feet when they see the electrical report.

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Camera System Knob and Tube Removal

How a Camera Saves Your Walls

Every other electrician in Rhode Island will tell you the same thing: they need to cut strategic access points in your walls, notch through the plaster, fish new wiring through, and then you’ll need to hire a plasterer to fix everything they opened up. If you’ve got horsehair plaster from the early 1900s, good luck finding someone who can match it. We use a different approach entirely. Our camera system inserts through your existing outlets and inspects inside your walls in real time. We can see exactly where the knob and tube wiring runs, identify junction boxes that got covered over during past renovations, spot mouse damage before it becomes a bigger problem, and locate open joints that need attention. This means we know exactly what we’re dealing with before we touch anything. We’re not guessing. We’re not making exploratory cuts to see what’s behind the plaster. We’re looking directly at your wiring with a camera that fits through the same opening your outlet uses. Once we know where everything is, we remove the old wiring through those same access points. Your horsehair plaster stays completely intact. You don’t need a plasterer. You don’t need to repaint. And you don’t end up with walls that look different from room to room because the texture couldn’t be matched.
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Historic Home Rewiring Rhode Island

Why This Matters for Historic Homes

Rhode Island has some of the highest concentrations of historic homes in Rhode Island. Many of our jobs are in houses built between 1880 and 1940, and almost all of them have horsehair plaster walls. That plaster was mixed with lime, aggregate, and actual animal hair to create walls that are three-quarters to seven-eighths of an inch thick. It’s incredibly durable. It’s also incredibly difficult to repair properly because the materials and techniques used to install it aren’t common anymore. If you cut through horsehair plaster to rewire your home, you’re left with patches that don’t quite match the texture, color, or finish of the original wall. In a historic home, that’s not just an aesthetic problem—it’s a loss of authenticity that affects your property’s character and value. Our camera-based process was designed specifically for homes like yours. We’ve worked on Colonials, Victorians, and early 20th-century homes throughout Rhode Island, and we understand what’s at stake when you’re dealing with original plaster, period details, and construction methods that haven’t been used in 80 years. You get modern, grounded electrical wiring that meets current code, handles today’s power demands, and satisfies your insurance company. And your home still looks like the home you bought—no patched walls, no mismatched textures, no evidence that we were ever there except for the new outlets and the fact that your lights don’t flicker anymore.
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Knob & Tube Wiring Removal FAQs

Common Questions About Our Service

Yes. We use a specialized camera system that no other electrician in the area has. The camera inserts through your existing outlets and allows us to see inside your walls in real time. We can locate the knob and tube wiring, identify junction boxes, spot any damage, and plan the removal without making exploratory cuts through your plaster. Once we know where everything is, we remove the old wiring and install new, grounded circuits through those same outlet openings. Your horsehair plaster stays intact. If we do need to make a small notch somewhere for access, it’s minimal—nothing like the strategic wall cutting that traditional electricians do. Most jobs are completed with zero to minimal wall damage, which means you don’t need to hire a plasterer or repaint entire rooms.
Your insurance company doesn’t care how the knob and tube wiring gets removed—they just want it gone and they want documentation that the work was done properly. We provide a Certificate of Insurance when the job is complete, which is exactly what your insurer needs to approve or reinstate your coverage. The camera-based process we use is actually more thorough than traditional methods because we can see problems inside the walls that other electricians would miss unless they opened up large sections of plaster. We’re identifying covered junction boxes, diagnosing bad connections, and spotting mouse damage that could cause issues down the line. Your insurance company gets better documentation and more confidence that the electrical system is truly safe, not just partially updated.
Our camera-based process often costs less overall because you’re not paying for extensive plaster repair, texture matching, and repainting after the electrical work is done. Traditional knob and tube removal can run $12,000 to $36,000 for the electrical work alone, and then you’re looking at $300 to $1,500 per patch for drywall or plaster repair—and that’s if you can even find someone who knows how to properly match horsehair plaster. With our method, the electrical work is the electrical work. You’re not adding thousands of dollars in wall repair on top of it. Every home is different depending on size, how much wiring needs to be replaced, and whether you need a panel upgrade, but the fact that we’re not destroying your walls means you’re avoiding one of the biggest cost drivers in a traditional rewiring job.
That’s exactly why we use the camera in the first place. Knob and tube wiring has usually been in your walls for 70 to 100 years, and a lot can happen in that time. We’ve found wires that mice chewed through, junction boxes that got covered over during past renovations, connections that were never done properly to begin with, and insulation that’s deteriorated to the point where the copper is exposed. The camera shows us all of that before we start the removal process, which means we can address those issues as part of the job instead of discovering them halfway through and having to change the plan. You get a complete picture of what’s actually inside your walls, and we can give you an accurate scope of work based on what we see, not what we’re guessing might be there.
Most jobs take one to three weeks depending on the size of your home and how much wiring needs to be replaced. Because we’re not cutting open walls and waiting for plaster repair to dry before we can move to the next phase, the process moves faster than traditional methods. You’re not dealing with weeks of drywall dust, plasterers coming in after we leave, painters waiting for repairs to cure, and all the coordination that comes with a job that involves multiple trades. We complete the electrical work, clean up, and you’re done. The timeline also depends on whether you need a panel upgrade, how many circuits we’re replacing, and whether we’re doing the whole house or just the active knob and tube sections, but we’ll give you a clear schedule before we start so you know exactly what to expect.
It’s both. Insurance companies won’t cover homes with knob and tube wiring because the fire risk is real. The rubber and cloth insulation that covers the wires breaks down over time—it gets brittle, cracks, and eventually exposes the copper underneath. When that happens, you’ve got bare wires inside your walls that can contact wood framing and start fires. Add in the fact that knob and tube wiring has no ground wire, which means your outlets aren’t protected from surges and shocks, and you’re running way more electricity through these circuits than they were designed to handle. They were installed when people had a few lights and maybe a radio. Now you’re plugging in microwaves, computers, phone chargers, televisions, and air conditioners on the same system. Even if the wiring looks fine from the outside, the load it’s carrying every day is beyond what it was built for. That’s why insurance companies draw a hard line on it, and that’s why we recommend replacing it even if your insurer hasn’t flagged it yet.
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Camera Inspection Through Outlets

We insert our specialized camera through your existing outlets to inspect inside the walls and map out exactly where your knob and tube wiring runs.

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Identify Hidden Issues

The camera shows us covered junction boxes, open joints, mouse damage, and any other problems that need to be addressed before we install new wiring.

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Remove and Replace Without Opening Walls

We remove the old wiring and install modern, grounded circuits through the same access points—your outlets—so your plaster stays completely intact.

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