Documented assessment
Electrical Safety Inspections in Centennial, CO
A documented walk of the panel, grounding, device protection and visible wiring, delivered as a photographed report ranked by priority. Centennial, Cherry Hills Village and across Arapahoe County.
Knowing What You Actually Have
A general home inspector covers an entire house in a few hours and reports electrical findings in a sentence or two, usually recommending evaluation by a licensed electrician. This is that evaluation.
Centennial Electric performs electrical safety inspections across Centennial and the surrounding south metro for four kinds of client, and each wants a different emphasis. Buyers need to know what a finding on an inspection report will actually cost to resolve before the objection deadline. Sellers want to find and price problems before a buyer's inspector does. Insurance customers need documentation of panel type and wiring, often on a deadline attached to a renewal. And owners who have noticed something, a warm faceplate, a panel that hums, a breaker that has started tripping, want a professional opinion on whether it is urgent.
What you receive is the same in every case: a written, photographed record of what is installed, what is deficient, and what order to address it in.
What the Inspection Covers
From the service entrance inward, documented as we go.
- 1Service entrance and meterThe drop or lateral, the mast, the weatherhead, the meter socket and the service conductors, checked for damage, corrosion, clearance and adequate sizing.
- 2Panel interior assessmentCover off: bus condition, breaker type and compatibility, double-tapped terminations, conductor sizing against breaker rating, signs of heat, moisture or corrosion.
- 3Manufacturer identificationFederal Pacific Stab-Lok, Zinsco, Challenger, Pushmatic and other panels with known histories, identified by name and documented with photographs for your insurer or your agent.
- 4Grounding and bondingGrounding electrode conductor, rods, water-pipe bonding, gas bonding and the continuity of the equipment grounding system, the part most often incomplete in older homes.
- 5Branch-circuit conductor surveyRepresentative openings to identify aluminium branch wiring, cloth insulation, knob-and-tube and any mixed-era splicing.
- 6Device protection auditEvery location where the current code expects ground-fault or arc-fault protection, checked against what is actually installed, with each device tested.
- 7Receptacle and switch testingPolarity, grounding, open neutrals, bootleg grounds and loose terminations across a representative sample of the house.
- 8Junction boxes and accessible wiringAttic, crawl space, basement and garage runs checked for unsupported cable, open splices, missing covers and damage.
- 9Exterior and wet-location equipmentOutdoor receptacles, covers, fixtures, hot-tub and pool connections, and buried feed conditions where visible.
- 10Written report with photographs and prioritiesFindings grouped as safety, code and recommended, each photographed, each with an explanation and an indicative cost so you can plan rather than guess.
How an Inspection Is Done
Scope agreed up front
We ask why you want the inspection, because a pre-listing review, an insurance documentation request and a buyer's objection deadline each call for different emphasis. You get a flat price and a clear statement of what is and is not included before we schedule.
The on-site inspection
A licensed electrician works the house systematically, from the service entrance inward, photographing as we go. A typical single-family home takes two to three hours. We do not open finished walls; what cannot be seen is reported as not visible rather than guessed at, which matters if you are relying on the document.
The report and the conversation
You receive the written report with photographs, usually within a business day, with findings ranked by priority and each explained in language you can hand to an agent or an insurer. Then we talk it through so you know which items genuinely need action, which can wait, and roughly what each would cost. There is no obligation to have us do any of the work.
Why Centennial Electric for an Inspection
The report is written to be used by someone else
Agents, insurers, underwriters and buyers all need to read this document. Findings are photographed, located and explained plainly, not listed as code citations nobody outside the trade can interpret.
Priorities are honest, including the low ones
Everything on an electrical inspection could technically be called a finding. We separate what is genuinely a safety issue from what is a code update that was not required when the house was built, because treating them identically helps nobody.
No obligation attached
The inspection is a flat-priced deliverable that stands on its own. If you take the report to another contractor, that is entirely fine, and we would rather be the people who gave you an accurate document than the people who used it as a sales tool.
What you get on every job
- Licensed & Insured
- Flat Inspection Price
- Photographed Written Report
- Findings Ranked by Priority
- No Obligation to Proceed
Get It in Writing Before the Deadline
If you have an objection deadline, an insurance renewal date or a listing going live, tell us the date when you call and we will work to it. The inspection is flat-priced and the report lands within a business day. Serving Centennial, Cherry Hills Village, Greenwood Village, Littleton and across Arapahoe County.
Licensed, insured and permit-handling electricians. (303) 529-7038.