Residential

    Luxury Custom Home Electrician in DC, Maryland & Northern Virginia

    Architect-grade electrical design, smart-home integration, and concealed lighting for custom new builds and high-end renovations across the DMV.

    Licensed & insured 5.0 ★ on Google Family-owned since 2003
    23
    Years in business since 2003
    100+
    Communities on recurring maintenance
    5.0★
    Google rating
    500K+
    Jobs completed
    Scope of Work

    What's Included

    Every job comes scoped, permitted, and inspected - no shortcuts.

    • Whole-home electrical design from architectural plans
    • 400A, 600A & 800A residential service entrances
    • Smart-home pre-wire (Lutron, Control4, Crestron, Savant)
    • Architectural & landscape lighting design and installation
    • Low-voltage structured wiring - CAT6A, fiber, coax, audio
    • Home theater, media room & whole-house audio rough-in
    • Standby generator systems with automatic transfer switches
    • EV charging for multi-car garages (Level 2 & DC fast)
    • Wine cellar, sauna, steam shower & elevator circuits
    • Pool, spa, water feature & outdoor kitchen wiring

    Electrical Built for the Way Luxury Homes Actually Live

    A custom home in Potomac, Bethesda, McLean, Great Falls, or Kalorama isn't wired like a tract house. Square footage doubles or triples, mechanical loads stack up - induction ranges, dual ovens, steam showers, indoor pools, EV chargers, geothermal pumps, elevators, generators - and the architecture asks the electrical to disappear. Pirro Electric has wired luxury custom homes across the DMV since 2003, and we design every system around how the home is going to be lived in for the next forty years, not just how it passes rough-in.

    We work directly from architectural and interior design plans, sit in on owner-architect-builder meetings, and produce a whole-home electrical scope before a single hole gets drilled. That means panel sizing, sub-panel locations, lighting control zones, low-voltage backbone, and generator sizing are all decided up front - not bolted on after drywall.

    Lighting Design That Makes the Architecture

    In a high-end home, lighting is architecture. We lay out trimless and micro-aperture downlights, linear cove and toe-kick, integrated millwork lighting, exterior facade washing, landscape path and tree uplighting, and tunable-white circadian systems - coordinated with the architect, lighting designer, and millworker so fixtures land exactly where the drawings call for them.

    Every keypad, scene, and dimmer gets programmed and labeled. Lutron HomeWorks, RadioRA 3, Crestron, Control4, and Savant systems are commissioned in-house. You hand the homeowner a finished system on day one - not a binder of unconfigured keypads.

    Service Sizing, Generators & Resilience

    Luxury homes routinely run past the 200-amp service that's standard in older DMV neighborhoods. We size 400A, 600A, and 800A services with paralleled meter pans, CT cabinets, and properly distributed sub-panels so loads stay balanced and voltage stays clean across the house.

    Standby generator systems - Generac, Kohler, Cummins, Briggs & Stratton - are scoped to actually run the home, not just the fridge. Automatic transfer switches, load-shedding modules, and natural-gas sizing are coordinated with the plumber and gas utility. After a Pepco, BGE, or Dominion outage, the home transitions seamlessly. No reset, no scramble.

    Smart Home, AV & Low-Voltage Backbone

    Every luxury custom home we wire gets a low-voltage backbone designed for the next decade: CAT6A to every room, fiber between the head-end and detached structures, structured-media enclosures, dedicated AV racks with proper cooling and power conditioning, and conduit runs to attic and crawl for future pulls. Pre-wire for whole-house audio, distributed video, shading, HVAC zoning, security, surveillance, and access control is done in coordination with the integrator so nobody is fighting for wall space at trim.

    Renovations & Whole-House Rewires in Established Homes

    Many of our luxury jobs are deep renovations to existing custom homes in Spring Valley, Chevy Chase, Wesley Heights, Potomac Falls, and Old Town Alexandria - gut additions, kitchen-and-primary-suite expansions, finished-basement build-outs with theaters and gyms, and whole-house rewires that bring 1970s-era systems up to a modern luxury standard. We work cleanly around finished areas, protect floors and millwork, and keep the family in the house whenever possible.

    Selected Work

    Lighting You Can Feel in the Room

    Designed with the architect and lighting designer. Roughed-in, terminated, and commissioned by Pirro Electric.

    Vaulted great room with linear cove lighting along exposed beams in a DMV custom home
    Great Room

    Vaulted ceiling with linear cove integrated into exposed beams - designed with the architect, wired and commissioned by Pirro.

    Custom kitchen with under-beam linear lighting, recessed downlights, and pendant fixtures
    Kitchen

    Under-beam linear, trimless downlights, undercabinet, and pendant feeds - all on a single Lutron scene.

    Finished basement media room with coffered ceiling, cove lighting, and surround-sound wiring
    Media Room

    Coffered ceiling with cove lighting, surround-sound pre-wire, sconces, and dedicated AV circuits.

    Primary bedroom with tray ceiling, perimeter cove lighting, and trimless recessed downlights
    Primary Suite

    Tray ceiling with concealed cove and a clean grid of trimless downlights - tunable-white on a keypad.

    Our Process

    From First Call to Final Inspection

    1. 1

      Free On-Site Assessment

      A licensed electrician walks the job, scopes the work, and answers your questions.

    2. 2

      Detailed Written Quote

      You get a clear scope, timeline, and price - no surprises, no upsells.

    3. 3

      Permitted, Code-Compliant Install

      We pull the permit, do the work safely, and protect your property end-to-end.

    4. 4

      Final Inspection & Walkthrough

      We test every circuit, schedule the county inspection, and leave the site clean.

    23 Years in the DMV

    Family-owned since 2003. Licensed electrical contractor in MD, DC & VA, under master electrician of record Foto Martinos.

    Licensed, Insured & Bonded

    Full liability, automobile, and workers' comp on every job. Bonded in VA. EPA- and OSHA-certified. Pirro pulls every permit.

    Trusted by Property Pros

    HOA boards, property managers, and homeowners across the region - 5.0 ★ on Google.

    What Affects the Price

    Every job is unique - we won't quote a price online without seeing the work. But here's what moves the number up or down so you can plan.

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    • Square footage, number of floors, and detached structures (pool houses, guest houses, garages)
    • Service size - 400A, 600A, or 800A with paralleled meters or CT cabinets
    • Lighting fixture count and control system complexity (Lutron HomeWorks vs. RadioRA, Crestron, Control4, Savant)
    • Low-voltage scope - CAT6A drops, AV rough-in, distributed audio, surveillance, shading
    • Standby generator size, fuel source, and load-shedding requirements
    • Specialty circuits - elevator, indoor pool, wine cellar, steam, sauna, EV chargers
    • Permit and inspection fees by jurisdiction (DC, Montgomery, Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun)
    FAQ

    Frequently Asked Questions

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    Free written quotes. Licensed & insured. Same-week scheduling for most projects.