How do I know if our North Charleston home has aluminum wiring, and what does correction involve?

Check the build years and the panel first: the symptom leader in this market, a Park Circle independent, lists aluminum wiring replacement as a named offering because part of the 1940s to 1970s base era stock was wired with aluminum branch circuits. Confirmation is visual, cable markings and device connections read during a survey, not guessable from the street. Correction has two honest forms: approved connector pigtailing at every device on the aluminum runs, priced per device count from the survey, or rewiring the affected runs in copper. What it is not is a house-wide phone quote. The survey is the product that makes the price real, and any operator here should offer it as a defined first step.