Apartment and House Rewiring in New York

Full Apartment Rewire

A full rewire replaces every branch circuit, usually during a renovation when walls and ceilings are already open. It is the cleanest result: one wiring system, grounded throughout, with circuits laid out around how the apartment is used now. In a co-op or condo it is filed under the alteration, scheduled around the building's working hours, and often paired with a new panel and an updated feed from the riser, so the apartment ends up with capacity to match its new layout.

Planning range (national sources, 2026): $4 to $15 per square foot; an 1,800 sq ft home $7,200 to $27,000. Coastal-market pricing and building access change the figure; this is a planning band, never a quote.

Partial Rewire Room by Room

Many owners rewire in stages: the kitchen and bathroom during a remodel, bedrooms later. We plan the stages so each one leaves safe, finished circuits rather than half-replaced ones, and so later stages connect cleanly to the panel. A partial rewire is honest when the rest of the wiring is sound. When the survey shows the old wiring failing everywhere, we say so before the first stage starts, because staging then only delays the inevitable and costs more overall.

Cloth-Covered and Deteriorated BX Replacement

Early BX armored cable often had no bonding strip, so the armor itself is not a dependable ground, and the cloth-and-rubber insulation inside dries out and cracks. Moving these cables to replace a device can expose bare copper. We replace them with modern armored or metal-clad cable that carries a proper ground, and we check the boxes and connections at each end, since that is where old runs usually fail first, often at a splice someone made decades ago.