Residential Electrical in Silver Spring, Maryland
Panel upgrades, EV chargers, lighting, and full home rewires - handled by a licensed family-owned crew.
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Pirro Electric handles residential electrical for homeowners, businesses, and property managers in Silver Spring, MD. Work is scoped on site, quoted in writing, permitted, and inspected before we call it done. Typical scope: indoor and outdoor lighting design, recessed lighting and led retrofits, and kitchen and bathroom lighting upgrades.
Silver Spring is dense with mid-century single-family homes and 1960s-80s multi-unit apartment and condo buildings. Woodside and Forest Glen have early-1900s to 1940s houses with knob-and-tube remnants and two-prong ungrounded outlets still in daily use.
A Local Electrician Your Neighbors Already Trust
Pirro Electric is a family-owned residential electrical contractor headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Since 2003 we've wired, rewired, and upgraded homes across Montgomery County, Frederick County, Northern Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Our 5.0-star Google rating is built on doing one thing: showing up, doing it right, and standing behind the work.
Everything Inside the House
Most homeowner calls fall into a handful of buckets: a panel that's at capacity, a Level 2 EV charger install, a hot tub or pool circuit, recessed lighting in a kitchen reno, a tripping breaker that won't reset, or a ceiling fan that needs a proper junction box. We do all of it - pulled, permitted, and inspected.
If you're planning a renovation, loop us in early. Routing circuits before drywall closes saves real money and prevents the patchwork that comes from cutting a finished wall later.
More detail on scope and pricing: our full residential electrical page or the electrical panel upgrade cost in the dmv guide.
What Affects the Price of Residential Electrical in Silver Spring
Every quote is written after an on-site look. These are the variables that move the number:
- Scope - single fixture vs. whole-home rewire
- Existing wiring (copper vs. aluminum, accessible vs. fished)
- Service size and panel capacity
- Permit fees in your county or city
- Drywall patching needs (we leave openings clean for your painter)
Local Conditions We Work Around in Silver Spring
Four Corners and Kemp Mill have a lot of 1950s-60s ramblers wired with aluminum branch circuits and running on original, undersized panels. The apartment and condo towers around Downtown Silver Spring and White Oak, many built in the 1960s through 1980s, have aging shared feeders and meter banks that need upgrading as units turn over, plus tenant fit-out work in the ground-floor retail. All of this runs through Montgomery County DPS for permitting, with Pepco as the utility.
Silver Spring Housing Stock
Pre-war brick singles inside the Beltway, postwar ramblers further out, and a heavy concentration of 1960s-70s aluminum-era garden condos along Georgia Avenue, Colesville Road, and Piney Branch.
Permits & Utility Coordination in Silver Spring
All Silver Spring addresses are unincorporated Montgomery County, so permitting runs through DPS in Rockville. Downtown buildings usually require coordination with building engineers for shutdowns and freight-elevator access.
Common Residential Electrical Projects in Silver Spring
- Aluminum wiring remediation in multi-unit apartments and condos
- Service upgrades from 100A to 200A
Neighborhoods servedTakoma Park (adjacent) · Forest Glen · Wheaton (adjacent) · Kemp Mill
ZIP codes20901 · 20902 · 20903 · 20904 · 20905 · 20906 · 20910
What's Included
Every job in Silver Spring comes scoped, permitted, and inspected - no shortcuts.
- Indoor and outdoor lighting design
- Recessed lighting and LED retrofits
- Kitchen and bathroom lighting upgrades
- Outlet, switch, and circuit breaker repair
- Appliance and security camera circuits
- Level 2 EV charger installation
- Heavy-ups, hot tub, and pool wiring
- Ceiling fan installation and code compliance
- Hard-fault troubleshooting & diagnostics
- Whole-home rewires
Residential Electrical in Silver Spring - Common Questions
What Customers Say
Excerpts from verified Google reviews of Pirro Electric.
"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"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 HomeownerNearby Areas We Serve
Same residential electrical crew, next town over.
Related Services in Silver Spring
Often booked alongside residential electrical.
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