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Water and electricity: respected, not feared.

Every renovation eventually touches a pipe or a wire. Here's how we handle the two systems in your house that file the most dramatic complaints when disrespected.

How we actually do it

How We Run the Systems Game

Code isn't the ceiling, it's the floor. We start at the floor and build up.

1

Scope: what's legal, what's smart

First conversation: what does code require, what does the permit office want to see, and what's the difference between the minimum and the right answer. We give you both numbers. The degrees mean we've actually read the code book — voluntarily — which is its own kind of illness.

2

Permits & the licensed-trade handshake

Renovation plumbing and electrical we handle in-house where the law allows; where St. Louis city or county requires a licensed master trade or an inspection, we bring in our licensed guys and pull real permits. Unpermitted electrical is how houses end up on the news. We prefer our work inspected, stamped, and boring.

“We know a guy” is a joke on this site everywhere except this section. Here, the guy has a license number.
3

Plumbing: supply, drains & the sacred slope

PEX or copper supply runs with shutoffs at every fixture (future-you, mid-leak, will weep with gratitude), drains sloped at 1/4 inch per foot — too flat clogs, too steep leaves solids behind, yes really — and every fixture vented so your traps keep their water and your house keeps its dignity. Everything pressure-tested before walls close.

4

Electrical: circuits with a conscience

Kitchens get their required small-appliance circuits, bathrooms get GFCI, bedrooms get AFCI, and nothing gets daisy-chained off a 1962 circuit that's already carrying the burden of three generations. Boxes stay accessible, splices stay in boxes, and the panel gets labeled so precisely it reads like a museum exhibit.

5

Fixtures & finish

Faucets, disposals, water heaters, lights, fans, dimmers, smart switches that survive their firmware updates. Ceiling fans mounted to fan-rated boxes — a fan on a regular box is a helicopter audition, and we don't book that gig.

6

Test everything, label everything

Every circuit load-tested, every GFCI tripped and reset, every drain flushed, every supply checked for weeps at working pressure. Then the walkthrough where we show you the main shutoffs — water and electrical — because every homeowner should know where their off switches live.

The honest line: we're renovation guys who are extremely good at renovation plumbing and electrical, and disciplined about where the licensed-master line sits. That discipline is why our work passes inspection the first time and why your insurance adjuster will never learn our names.
The full damage report

Everything That's Involved

Everything wet or energized that a renovation touches — handled, tested, labeled.

Pipes whispering? Breakers plotting?

Free walkthrough, code-literate answers, and systems work that passes inspection like it studied. Because it did.

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