Lewis Electrical Services - Jones County
Electrician in Laurel, MS
Laurel is the other Jones County seat and the most renovation-heavy town in the Pine Belt. The historic district's early-1900s houses - deep porches, high ceilings, plaster walls, original millwork - are exactly the kind of homes people are buying to restore, and the downtown district has pulled a steady stream of that work along with it. Beyond the old neighborhoods, Laurel has decades of mid-century brick ranches and a ring of newer subdivisions and acreage homesites. Chris works both ends: careful rewiring inside a house whose trim nobody wants damaged, and straightforward new-construction and service work everywhere else in town. Ellisville is fifteen minutes down the road, so Laurel is close-in territory.
Old Laurel houses hide old wiring - cloth-insulated conductors, remnants of knob-and-tube, mid-century aluminum branch circuits, ungrounded two-prong receptacles, and 60- or 100-amp services trying to carry a modern kitchen and central air. Renovation work here means rewiring with the plaster and millwork protected, adding grounded and GFCI-protected circuits, upgrading the panel and service, and fitting recessed cans and period-appropriate lighting into ceilings that were never designed for them. What Chris does in Laurel: whole-house rewiring for historic homes, panel and service upgrades on older services, retrofit recessed cans, pendants and vanity lighting, grounded and GFCI circuit additions, remodel and flip-house wiring, whole-home surge protection. Restoring or remodeling in Laurel? Call Chris at (601) 335-8560 before the walls close up.