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This catalogue is shaped by one fact about the county: 55% of its entire housing stock went up between 2000 and 2019, nearly all of it master-planned and nearly all of it wired to the builder’s minimum package. Most of the work below exists because those houses are now being asked to run things nobody specified them for. The older-stock services underneath — rewiring, aluminum, panel replacement — are real, and they belong to a specific 4.1% of the county rather than to all of it.
The capacity question sitting underneath most of the rest of this list. What the panel door label and the main breaker rating tell you, and how a service change sequences with the utility that owns the meter.
Standby power sized as whole-home or essential-circuits, with the transfer switch that makes either lawful. Out on a well and a septic system the case is water, not comfort.
A Level 2 circuit is simple wiring on top of a load calculation that is not. Spare slots, service size, and the detached-garage runs that suburban charging guides never mention.
Feeding a second structure across a lot: feeder sizing against distance, overhead or buried, the disconnect at the building, and why the neutrals and grounds separate once you leave the main panel.
Pump circuits, pressure switches, control boxes, aerobic control panels and the alarm that is supposed to be both audible and visible. On acreage these are the circuits that decide whether the house functions.
A 1965-to-mid-1970s question, so a question for a small and locatable share of this county. Three repair methods CPSC accepts as permanent, and two it pointedly does not.
Diagnostic work: mapping a circuit, splitting the run, and checking the ends before the middle. Also the routing hub for the five symptom pages, and an honest account of why intermittent faults cost more.
Scope and price on a slab house with no crawlspace, where the attic is the highway and a second story changes everything. Includes the partial rewire most people never hear offered.
Recessed cans priced by access rather than hardware: high ceilings, open stairwells, remodel versus new-work housings, IC rating in a blown-in attic, and the switch box where dimming gets complicated.
Devices at the meter and at the panel, and why repeated transients and storm-season cycling do more cumulative damage than the lightning strike everyone pictures. Long rural service drops raise the exposure.
Buying or selling. Where no permit was pulled and none ever will be, a private inspection is the only occasion on which anyone qualified examines the work — and it is not what a general home inspection covers.
Three-phase service, panelboards and switchgear, exit and emergency lighting. The one part of unincorporated county where an adopted county code genuinely reaches the building.
Plenty of calls do not fit a service heading. They fit a sentence about what the house is doing. These five pages take the most common of those, say what each one usually means and what it occasionally means, and point at the right work from there.
Every service on this page carries a different answer to “is this permitted and inspected” depending on which side of a city line the property sits on. Inside Missouri City or Richmond the enforced edition is the 2023 NEC; inside Fulshear or Meadows Place it is the 2014 NEC — three code cycles and nine years apart within one county. In unincorporated Fort Bend County, where close to three in five residents live, there is no county electrical permit and no county electrical inspection on residential work at all. The state license applies everywhere regardless; only the checking changes.
Permits and code editions, city by city →Describe what you are adding or what the house is doing. Getting connected with an independent, TDLR-licensed Fort Bend County electrician takes one call.
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