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Home Inspections.

Trent Electrical provides pre-purchase, pre-sale, and pre-renovation electrical inspections with a written report you can actually act on — panel evaluation, outlet testing, attic and crawl space walk-through, photos, and a real repair estimate.

Electrician inspecting a residential breaker panel with a flashlight in Hawkins County TN

What's included

  • Full Panel Evaluation
    Bus condition, breaker brand and age, double-taps, mixed metals, AFCI/GFCI coverage, grounding electrode, neutral-ground bond.
  • Receptacle & GFCI Testing
    Every accessible outlet tested for polarity, open ground, open neutral, and trip response on kitchen, bath, garage, and exterior GFCIs.
  • Attic & Crawl Space Walk-Through
    Junction boxes, splices, knob and tube, abandoned circuits, rodent damage, and ungrounded romex documented with photos.
  • Service Entrance Inspection
    Meter base, weatherhead, mast, drip loop, grounding rods, service conductor condition. The exterior is where storm damage hides.
  • Written Report with Photos
    PDF report you can hand to your realtor, lender, or insurance adjuster — every finding with a photo and a real repair number.
  • Federal Pacific & Zinsco Flags
    Known dangerous panel brands flagged in red with replacement quote attached. No surprises after closing.

A general home inspection report tells you the house has electricity. An electrical inspection tells you whether that electricity is going to burn the place down. They are not the same thing. General inspectors are trained to look at hundreds of building systems and pass them or fail them on visible condition. They are not licensed electricians and they are not pulling the dead front off the panel to check the bus for corrosion.

That is the job we do. The panel comes apart on every inspection. Every breaker gets checked for double-taps, the right wire gauge on the lug, and proper torque. The bus gets checked for pitting and overheating. The grounding electrode conductor gets traced back to the rods. We look for Federal Pacific Stab-Lok, Zinsco, Pushmatic, and Challenger panels — all four have documented failure modes that insurers and lenders increasingly flag.

Beyond the panel, we test every accessible receptacle for polarity, open ground, and open neutral. GFCI and AFCI breakers get tripped to confirm they actually work. The attic and crawl space get a walk-through for abandoned splices, knob-and-tube, and rodent damage. The service entrance gets photographed for storm damage, mast plumbness, and clearances.

You get a PDF report the same day or the next morning with photos of every finding and a real repair estimate from a Tennessee-licensed electrical contractor. That report is what you hand to your realtor, your lender, or your insurance carrier when they want to know what they are buying.

Service area includes Rogersville, Church Hill, Mount Carmel, Surgoinsville, Bulls Gap, Mooresburg, Kingsport, Morristown, Greeneville, and the surrounding Hawkins, Hamblen, and Greene County communities.

How it works

Four steps. One licensed electrician.

  1. 01

    Walk-through

    Every room, every outlet, panel cover off, attic and crawlspace where accessible.

  2. 02

    Panel + circuits check

    Breaker brand and condition, grounding, bonding, GFCI/AFCI coverage, load balance.

  3. 03

    Photo report

    Written report with photos of every concern — clear enough for a lender or insurer.

  4. 04

    Recommendations

    Prioritized fix list: what's dangerous, what's out of code, what's just old but fine.

Craft & safety

What good work looks like.

Electrician testing a residential outlet with a multimeter
NEC compliance

Precision grounding

Voltage and polarity checked at a sample of receptacles on every circuit.

Verified load

Federal Pacific, Zinsco, and Challenger panels flagged with photos.

Clean runs

Grounding electrode conductor traced from panel to ground rod or water main.

The Trent standard
From the field
Electrician testing a residential outlet with a multimeter
Receptacle testing
Electrician checking attic junction boxes and wiring with a flashlight
Attic walk-through

One call.
Lights back
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Text or call. Ryan answers personally. Same-day quotes, honest pricing, no upsells.

Hours
Open 24/7
Based In
Rogersville, Tennessee
Established
Serving East Tennessee Since 2013
Payment Options
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