Electrician in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Lake Worth Beach is a city of small lots and older houses. Downtown, in Parrot Cove and College Park, and through neighborhoods like Bryant Park, South Palm Park and Mango Groves, you see wood frame cottages, early bungalows and midcentury block homes, many of them restored by owners who love them. That character comes with electrical systems that have been patched, extended and partly updated over many decades.

The oldest houses can still have early wiring methods: cloth insulated wire, splices with no junction box, and circuits extended by someone who was not an electrician. Fuse boxes and small original panels are common. So are two prong outlets, overloaded kitchen circuits, and attic wiring damaged by heat or pests. Old wiring can still be sound. The only way to know is a careful look before anything new gets added to it.

Our usual approach in an older Lake Worth Beach home:

1. Look at the service, the panel and a sample of the wiring before recommending anything.
2. Fix what is unsafe first.
3. Upgrade the panel when its condition or capacity calls for it. Our panel upgrade page walks through how that works.
4. Then add the circuits, outlets and indoor lighting the house actually needs.

If your panel is a Federal Pacific or Zinsco, read our guide to those two brands before your next insurance renewal.

Lake Worth Beach runs its own electric utility, which serves much of the city. Some addresses are served by FPL instead. Any service upgrade, meter change or reconnection involves whichever utility serves your address, so we confirm that at the start of the job. During an outage, the utility handles the lines and the meter. If the problem is inside your home, that is where we come in.

Toward the Lake Worth Lagoon and the beach, salt air speeds up corrosion on meter cans, outdoor receptacles and fixtures. If your outdoor lights keep failing or your exterior outlets are rusted shut, replacing them with weather resistant, properly covered devices is a small job that prevents bigger ones.

From June 1 to November 30, keep an eye on the forecast and on your house. Older homes with exposed attic wiring and aging exterior equipment are worth checking before the season starts. After a storm, leave circuits off if water got into outlets or the panel, and have them inspected before you turn them back on.

Reef Electrical is family owned: Ryan Bye, with 26 years in the trade, and his father, Richard. We are licensed and insured, we guarantee our work, and seniors and military save 15%. In Lake Worth Beach, call 561-468-REEF or request service. For emergencies we answer 24/7.