Louisville Knob & Tube is a knob and tube rewiring service for Louisville and Jefferson County, and Butchertown is one of the areas where that work concentrates. Here is what rewiring here usually involves.
Butchertown’s brick rowhouses and cottages date to the second half of the 1800s, built tight to the street for stockyard workers. Solid masonry walls mean the wiring runs in furring channels, floor cavities, and ceilings rather than stud bays, and rewiring one takes a different plan than a frame house. We surface-trace the original runs first and reuse the same channels where they pass, which keeps chasing brick to a minimum.
The neighborhood’s other side is conversions. Old storefronts and small industrial buildings along Story Avenue have become shops, studios, and apartments, and those conversions regularly uncover live knob and tube feeding upper floors. Commercial-to-residential work needs the wiring brought fully to current code, not just patched, and we scope those jobs with the change-of-use inspection in mind.
Wiring inside solid masonry
Brick buildings this old rarely have grounded metal boxes, and mounting modern GFCI and AFCI protection correctly on masonry-run circuits is where inexperienced crews cut corners. Every circuit we install here gets proper grounding back to the panel, no bootleg grounds, because that is the first thing a change-of-use inspector checks.
Butchertown blocks and buildings
We cover all of Butchertown, including around Story Avenue, East Washington Street, Butchertown Market and Beargrass Creek. Nearby, we also rewire Beechmont and St. Matthews, and the full published price table lives on the cost guide.
Butchertown rewiring questions
How is rewiring a brick rowhouse different from a frame house?
Cable routes through floor cavities, ceilings, and existing furring channels instead of stud bays, and we reuse the paths the original installers chased where they are sound. It adds some labor versus a frame shotgun, and masonry houses typically price in the middle of our published range.
We are converting a Butchertown storefront to an apartment. Can you handle the electrical?
Yes. Change-of-use conversions must meet current residential code throughout, and we design the new circuits, file the permit, and carry the job through both rough and final inspection.
What does knob and tube replacement cost in Butchertown?
Two-story brick rowhouses generally run $15,000 to $26,000 for a complete rewire. Small commercial conversion floors are quoted per plan, and the $250 to $450 assessment applies to those too.
Will you have to cut channels in my brick walls?
Rarely, and never without agreeing to it first. Most runs go through floors, ceilings, and existing chases. Where a wall drop is unavoidable we use surface raceway in period-appropriate finishes or the existing furring gap.
Scope a rowhouse or conversion
Start with the address. The circuit trace maps what is live, and the quote is written and itemized per circuit.