Electrician in Beaverton, OR

Electrician in Beaverton, OR — Smiley Electric, Inc.

Beaverton is a genuine mix of homes, and that mix decides what your electrical system needs. The city's median home was built around 1987, which puts a large block of houses in the postwar-through-1970s range where service panels and older wiring are aging out, right alongside the big wave of homes that went up in the 2000s and now need more capacity for EV chargers, heat pumps, and additions. Smiley Electric, Inc. is a Portland-metro electrical contractor that works across Beaverton on exactly this range of jobs — from tired panels in older neighborhoods to added circuits in newer ones — and we pull and pass the City of Beaverton's own permits on the work we do. Owner Joshua Smiley is a Master Electrician, and every job is licensed, bonded, and insured under Oregon CCB #227116.

Electrical work in Beaverton homes and buildings

Here is the thing that makes Beaverton different from the towns around it: Beaverton runs its own municipal electrical permit program. For most residential electrical work, a Beaverton address is not permitted through Washington County or the state's ePermitting portal — it goes through the City of Beaverton Building Division, which issues and inspects electrical permits directly through the Beaverton Electronic Permitting System (BEPS) at buildinginbeaverton.org. The city publishes its own electrical fee schedules and, for new one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses, bundles mechanical, electrical, and plumbing into a single combo permit rather than separate trade permits, with a state surcharge applied on top. That sounds like paperwork trivia until an inspection stalls a project because the permit was filed with the wrong jurisdiction. We work inside Beaverton's system, so your job is filed, inspected, and closed out the way the city expects.

The housing mix drives the work in two directions. With a median build year of 1987 and a real share of pre-1980 homes, a lot of Beaverton houses are still on undersized or aging service panels — the kind that were sized for a very different set of appliances than a modern household runs. Beaverton's own fee schedule even prices residential service work by amperage (200A or less, 201–400A, and up), which tells you how routine a service upgrade is here. That upgrade is often the real first step before an EV charger, a heat pump, or an ADU, because those loads need panel capacity the old service simply doesn't have.

For older homes specifically, there are a few era-associated concerns worth knowing about. Homes built in the 1960s and 1970s can carry outdated equipment like Federal Pacific (FPE) Stab-Lok or Zinsco panels, and single-strand aluminum branch wiring was commonly installed nationally between roughly 1965 and 1973. These are era hazards, not something documented at any particular rate in Beaverton, so we don't assume your house has them — we look. If your home is from that era and we find one of these conditions, we can talk through evaluation and, where warranted, replacement or CPSC-recognized remediation. Newer Beaverton homes from the 2000s wave usually don't have deterioration problems; there the work is capacity and circuit additions for the loads modern life keeps adding.

Across all of it, the common thread is permitted, inspected work. Whether it's a full rewire in an older home or a new dedicated circuit in a newer one, we file it with the City of Beaverton Building Division and get it inspected — which matters when you sell, insure, or just want it done right.

Electrical panel upgrades in Beaverton

If your lights dim when the dryer kicks on, if you're out of breaker space, or if you're planning an EV charger or heat pump, the panel is usually where it starts. We handle residential and commercial panel upgrades in Beaverton, sizing the new service to what your home actually needs now and permitting it through the city. For homes still running old fuse or under-capacity panels, this is the upgrade that quietly unlocks everything else.

Federal Pacific and Zinsco panel replacement

Federal Pacific Stab-Lok and Zinsco panels are known problem equipment from mid-century-era homes, and Beaverton has plenty of housing from that period. If you have one — or aren't sure — we can evaluate it and handle Federal Pacific panel replacement in Beaverton or Zinsco panel replacement. We don't claim your panel is dangerous sight unseen; we inspect first, then give you a clear read on whether replacement is warranted.

EV charger installation in Beaverton

Beaverton sits in the Silicon Forest tech corridor — Nike's headquarters is the city's largest employer, and Intel's campuses are next door — which means a lot of commuters plugging in at home. Oregon requires a permit and a licensed electrician for a residential Level 2 charger, and we handle EV charger installation in Beaverton the right way: we confirm your panel has the capacity, install the dedicated circuit, and get it permitted and inspected by the city. If the panel can't support the charger yet, we'll tell you that up front rather than overloading an old service.

Generator and backup power installation

Winter storms and outages are part of life in the Portland metro, and for the many Beaverton residents who work from home, losing power is more than an inconvenience. We handle generator installation and backup power, permitted through the same Beaverton electrical process, so your home stays running when the grid doesn't.

Knob-and-tube and older wiring replacement

The oldest Beaverton homes can still have knob-and-tube or other outdated wiring that insurers and modern loads don't tolerate well. We handle knob-and-tube wiring replacement and whole-home rewires, bringing older houses up to current code with permitted, inspected work.

Lighting, kitchen remodels, and hot tub wiring

For upgrades and projects, we install LED and fixture lighting, handle kitchen remodel wiring for dedicated appliance and counter circuits, and run hot tub and spa wiring with the correct GFCI protection and disconnect. These are the everyday improvements that make a home more livable, and they're all done to code.

Troubleshooting and electrical repair

When something's actually wrong — a breaker that keeps tripping, flickering lights, an outlet that stopped working, a GFCI that keeps tripping, a burning smell, or half the house losing power — we diagnose it instead of guessing. Our electrical troubleshooting and repairs service finds the root cause, and for urgent situations we offer emergency electrical service.

Commercial electrical

Beaverton is a working commercial market, and we handle commercial electrical service alongside our residential work — panel and service work, lighting, repairs, and tenant improvements, all permitted through the city.

Why Beaverton homeowners call Smiley Electric

The credentials are simple and verifiable. Smiley Electric, Inc. is licensed, bonded, and insured under Oregon CCB #227116, and the company is owned by Joshua Smiley, a Master Electrician. We pull permits through the City of Beaverton Building Division and get our work inspected — not to add cost, but because permitted, inspected work is what protects you at sale, at insurance-claim time, and in daily safety. On pricing, we don't play games: after we understand the scope of your job, we give you a clear, upfront quote so there are no surprises. And we leave the job site clean. The tagline is "Solving Electrical Problems With A Smile!" and it's meant literally — we'd rather you actually enjoy the experience of hiring an electrician.

Neighborhoods we serve in Beaverton

We work across Beaverton's neighborhoods, including Central Beaverton, West Slope, Vose, Five Oaks / Triple Creek, Sexton Mountain, South Beaverton, West Beaverton, Greenway, Highland, Denney Whitford / Raleigh West, and Neighbors Southwest. Because we're a Portland-metro contractor, we also serve the surrounding communities — most of our work happens right at your location, so wherever you are in and around Beaverton, we can get to you.

Book a Beaverton electrician

Call 503-484-7556 or email help@smileyelectric.net to schedule. We're a Portland-metro electrical contractor operating out of 820 N River St #205, Portland, OR 97227, and most of our work happens right at the customer's home or business. Our hours are Monday through Saturday, 7am to 5pm. Whether it's a panel upgrade, an EV charger, an older-home rewire, or a breaker that won't stop tripping, we'll give you a clear, upfront quote and permitted, inspected work you can trust.