Electrician in
Denton, TX
Denton is really two housing markets in one city — century-old houses around the square and the campuses, and estates on the edge of town finished in the last few years. The wiring in them has almost nothing in common.
Denton Owns Its Electric Utility
Denton Municipal Electric is not a retail provider competing for your business — it belongs to the city. DME describes itself as community-owned and locally controlled, and it owns its own generation, transmission and distribution rather than renting them.
Denton Municipal Electric (DME)
City-owned, and supplied with 100% renewable energy. Because DME owns the distribution network as well as the retail side, a service connection, a meter move or a disconnect for panel work is handled by one organisation instead of two. Billing (940) 349-8700, outages (940) 349-7000.
The practical upshot is a shorter chain of command than in the Oncor towns. When a Denton job needs the service dropped, there is one utility to book it with. We handle that call; you do not need to.
Permits & Inspection
Permitted With The City, Inspected On Site
Electrical work in Denton is permitted by the City of Denton and inspected before sign-off. We pull the permit under our licence, we are there for the inspection, and the paperwork goes to you. On a rental or a house you plan to sell, that record is worth having.
Denton has a lot of converted and sub-divided property around the campuses, and that is exactly where unpermitted work tends to turn up — added circuits, converted garages, a sub-panel somebody fitted themselves. If we find it, we tell you what it is and what it would take to put right.
- Permitting authority
- City of Denton
- Electric utility
- Denton Municipal Electric — city-owned, 100% renewable supply
- County
- Denton County
- Licence on the permit
- Master Electrician TDLR 705467 · TECL 39791
What We Are Called Out For In Denton
Which of these you need in Denton depends almost entirely on which Denton you live in — the pre-war streets near the square, the 70s and 80s estates, or the new build-out on the city limits.
Wiring & Outlets
The older Denton houses are where we see two-wire circuits with no ground, cloth-sheathed cable and outlets added over decades without a plan. Grounded circuits and GFCI protection where the code now wants it.
Electrical Panels
Two very different jobs in one city: tired 100A services in the older stock that need bringing up, and new-build panels that are sound but already full because nobody allowed for a charger or a hot tub.
Fault Finding
Flickering lights and breakers that trip once a week. In older Denton property the cause is usually a connection rather than a device, and the only way to find it is to test, not guess.
EV Chargers
Level 2 charger installation on its own circuit, with the panel capacity checked first. On the newer estates there is often headroom; in the older streets there frequently is not.
Home Lighting
Recessed, under-cabinet and feature lighting — and in the older houses, working out how to run it at all when there is no attic access above the room you want it in.
Smart Switches
Scenes and keypads designed and commissioned rather than just fitted. The limiting factor in an older Denton house is usually whether there is a neutral at the switch.
Ceiling Fans
New fits and replacements, including sloped and vaulted ceilings, on fan-rated boxes with proper bracing.
Data Wiring
Cat6 structured cabling and wall data points, labelled at both ends — straightforward in a new build, more of an exercise in an 80-year-old house.
Work We Can Show You
These are new builds rather than Denton jobs. They are here because the standard they were held to is the same one applied to a century-old house near the square.
Exterior wall installation
Set out before the ceiling was closed up
Wired and labelled before the walls went on
Day-to-day work across Frisco and North Dallas–Fort Worth. Jobs photographed in Denton will be added here as we build the record. See all projects
Denton Questions
What does Denton Municipal Electric being city-owned mean for my job?
Mainly that there is one organisation to deal with instead of two. In the Oncor towns the wires company and the retailer are separate; in Denton, DME owns the network and bills you for the power. So a disconnect for panel work, a meter relocation or a new service connection all go through DME, and we arrange that as part of the job.
We are near the square and the house is close to a hundred years old. Can it be rewired in stages?
Often, yes, and in an occupied house that is usually the sensible way to do it — circuit by circuit or floor by floor rather than everything at once. We will look at what is actually there first, because older Denton houses vary enormously depending on what previous owners did.
Our house is only four years old and the panel is already full. Is that normal?
It is common. New-build panels are sized for the house as built, not for a charger, a hot tub, a workshop and a pool pump added later. Sometimes the answer is a sub-panel, sometimes a service upgrade, and occasionally it is just a case of re-arranging what is in there. We will tell you which.
Do you work on rentals and student property in Denton?
Yes. On rentals the permit and the inspection record matter more, not less — it is the evidence the work was done properly and to code. We pull the permit, meet the inspector and give the paperwork to whoever needs to keep it.
How far is Denton from your base?
We are in Frisco, so Denton is a routine run for us across Denton County. Call Alex on +1 503 380 0024 and he will tell you straight whether it is a job for us.
Service Area
We Also Serve
ADP Electrical works across Frisco and the surrounding towns of North Dallas–Fort Worth. Not sure whether we cover you? Call and ask — we usually do.
Covering all nineteen towns in our service area, and often a little beyond. Ask if you are not listed.
Free Estimate
Get a Price For Work in Denton
Tell us roughly when the house was built and which part of Denton you are in — in this city that changes the answer more than almost anywhere else we work.
Serving Frisco, Prosper, Celina, McKinney, Plano and North Dallas–Fort Worth.