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    Alexandria, VA

    Luxury Home Wiring in Alexandria, Virginia

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

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    Luxury Custom Home Electrical in Alexandria, VA - Pirro Electric

    Pirro Electric handles luxury home wiring for homeowners, businesses, and property managers in Alexandria, VA. Work is scoped on site, quoted in writing, permitted, and inspected before we call it done. Typical scope: whole-home electrical design from architectural plans, 400a, 600a & 800a residential service entrances, and smart-home pre-wire (lutron, control4, crestron, savant).

    Old Town Alexandria's 18th- and 19th-century rowhomes often still have surface-mounted knob-and-tube remnants, undersized services, and original fuse panels behind walls that have been renovated multiple times, so any real electrical work there also has to go through the Board of Architectural Review because of the historic district. Del Ray's early-1900s bungalows and Rosemont's older single-family homes have a mix of original wiring and 1960s-era aluminum branch circuits that need remediation.

    Before You Book

    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 - 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, and the low-voltage backbone 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.

    More detail on scope and pricing: our full luxury custom home electrical page.

    What Affects the Price of Luxury Custom Home Electrical in Alexandria

    Every quote is written after an on-site look. These are the variables that move the number:

    • 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
    • Sub-panel count and distribution across floors and detached structures
    • Specialty circuits - elevator, indoor pool, wine cellar, steam, sauna, EV chargers
    • Permit and inspection fees by jurisdiction (DC, Montgomery, Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun)
    Alexandria Context

    Local Conditions We Work Around in Alexandria

    Seminary Hill and Beverley Hills, built mostly in the 1940s-60s, commonly still run on 100-amp services. Eisenhower Valley and Potomac Yard are the newer end of the city, with mid-rise office and residential buildings that need ongoing tenant fit-outs and EV-ready garage wiring. Electrical permits in Alexandria go through the City of Alexandria, and Dominion Energy is the utility for service coordination.

    Local Angle

    Common Luxury Custom Home Electrical Projects in Alexandria

    • Historic Old Town rewiring (with BAR coordination)
    • 200-amp service upgrades in Del Ray bungalows

    Neighborhoods servedRosemont · Eisenhower Valley · Potomac Yard · West End

    ZIP codes22301 · 22302 · 22304 · 22305 · 22311 · 22314

    Scope of Work

    What's Included

    Every job in Alexandria 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
    • Dedicated sub-panels for kitchens, primary suites & detached structures
    • EV charging for multi-car garages (Level 2 & DC fast)
    • Wine cellar, sauna, steam shower & elevator circuits
    • Pool, spa, water feature & outdoor kitchen wiring
    FAQ

    Luxury Custom Home Electrical in Alexandria - Common Questions

    Reviews

    What Customers Say

    Excerpts from verified Google reviews of Pirro Electric.

    "Pirro re-wired my whole townhouse, updated the panel, and replaced every outlet and switch. Professional, friendly, and on time. Couldn't ask for a better company."

    JMW

    Google Review · Verified Homeowner
    "If you're thinking of going with Pirro - do it. You won't be sorry. I run a medium-sized HOA and wouldn't use any other company for our electric."

    Amanda S.

    Google Review · HOA Board Director
    "We use Pirro across our portfolio of 50+ commercial retail buildings. Excellent work, responsive, priced competitively, and they get it right the first time."

    Timothy M.

    Google Review · Commercial Property Manager

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