Electrical, plumbing and the room around them

An itemized list of the work, the timeline and the cost, written after Jamie has looked at the job, so you can decide with every number in front of you. Susannah K. had her kitchen and living room estimated that way, and her review says the work was finished within the schedule he gave.

Jamie Hamed, the owner. He is a licensed electrician and a licensed plumber, so the person pricing the job knows both sides of the wall, and he is also the one who does the work. Most of the reviews quoted on this site name him, from Megan Glenn’s water heater to Lakisha Kelton’s toilets.

More than people expect. An electric water heater needs its water lines and a 240-volt circuit. A dishwasher needs a supply line, a drain and power. A bathroom remodel moves drains, adds GFCI outlets and lights, then needs tile and drywall. A leak inside a wall is plumbing first, then drywall and paint.

Home base is Hermitage, on the Wilson County side of the ZIP. We cover four counties: Davidson, Wilson, Williamson and Rutherford, from Goodlettsville in the north to Lebanon in the east, Franklin in the southwest and Murfreesboro in the southeast. The service areas page gives each town’s distance from Hermitage.

A burning smell, smoke or scorch marks at an outlet or the panel, a breaker that buzzes, sparks, or water reaching wiring. Turn off that circuit at the breaker if you can do it safely, and call 911 if anything is smoking. NFPA counts an average of 31,650 home fires a year from electrical and lighting equipment.

If the neighbors are dark too, it’s an outage: report it to your power company, which across Davidson County is NES. If only your house, or part of it, is out, check the main breaker and the panel first. Damage on your side of the connection, at the mast or the meter base, is an electrician’s job.

It depends on the town. Metro Codes covers Davidson County, and Franklin, Mt. Juliet, Murfreesboro and Smyrna run their own electrical inspections. In Lebanon and La Vergne, electrical permits and inspections go through the State Fire Marshal’s office instead.

A dripping faucet or a toilet that keeps running can wait for a scheduled visit. A leak you can’t stop by closing a valve, a water heater pouring onto the floor, or no water at all can’t. If you smell gas near a water heater, leave the house and call the gas company from outside.

Yes, and it’s the clearest case for one company. The pipe is repaired first, the wet drywall is cut out, and then the patch and the paint touch-up go back in, along with any light or outlet the water reached. Drywall repair and painting touch-ups are part of the home improvement work.

Yes. Alongside his electrical and plumbing training, Jamie is certified in gas line work, as his bio on the company’s site says. That covers the job where a gas water heater, its venting and the line feeding it all have to be right, and the one where a kitchen switches to a gas range.

Amped Up’s own job photos say so: a paver patio shown going down and then finished, a cedar pergola over it, steps and a paver walk up to a shed. Outdoor and landscape lighting are on the electrical side of the business, so the patio’s lights and outlet can come from Jamie too.

Yes. Drywall patches, a door that sticks, trim and caulking, cabinet hardware and shelving are all part of the home improvement work. A short list is priced the same way as a bathroom: an itemized estimate first, so you know the cost of each item before anyone starts.

Before the walls close. New wiring and pipes go in while the studs are open, and that is when an inspector needs to see them. Insulation, drywall, tile and trim come after. With one company doing the wiring, the plumbing and the finish work, that order sits on one schedule instead of three.