The same electricians who wire new homes across the Grand Strand handle service calls in Socastee — from Rosewood Estates along the Waterway to Forestbrook, Cameron Village, and Cypress River Plantation, on both sides of the swing bridge.
We offer flexible financing options for larger projects so you can get the work done now and pay over time.
Learn More About Financing →Fogle & Sons Electric is a family-owned, licensed electrician — SC License #CLM111551 — serving Socastee from our Myrtle Beach shop. We handle panel upgrades, EV chargers, generator installs, and everyday repairs across the 29588 area, and we offer 24/7 emergency response — for urgent problems, see our 24/7 emergency service. Every service call starts the same way: an $89 diagnostic visit — credited back on any job of $275 or more. Call (843) 628-7289.
Socastee has its own wrinkles, and we work with them every week on the new-construction side. It's unincorporated Horry County — 22,213 people at the 2020 census, up more than 50% in two decades — so electrical permits run through Horry County Code Enforcement in Conway, and the county requires one for any work that changes your home's wiring. We pull those permits and schedule inspections through the county's online portal ourselves. Power is its own question: most Socastee homes are Horry Electric Cooperative members (the co-op keeps a district office right on Highway 707), while Santee Cooper serves other parts of the county, and near the Myrtle Beach city line whose name is on the bill can change street to street. That detail decides your EV charger rebate, so we check it before we quote.
Much of Socastee went up in the 1980s and 90s — the median house here dates to the mid-1990s — and homes that age are where original panels, worn receptacles, and 100-amp services start showing up on inspection reports. The ranches along the SC 707 and Dick Pond Road corridors are older still. Closer to the Waterway there's a harder history: Florence pushed the Intracoastal into Socastee homes in 2018, Rosewood has flooded more than once since, and the state has bought out dozens of the worst-hit houses. If your home has ever taken water, the wiring it touched deserves a hard look — that's what our safety inspections and panel work are for. Here are common issues we help Socastee homeowners with:
From Rosewood Estates along the Waterway to Forestbrook, Cameron Village, and Cypress River Plantation off SC 707, we serve both sides of the 1936 swing bridge — the National Register-listed landmark that still opens to foot traffic for the Heritage Festival every April. Your mail may say Myrtle Beach (every 29588 address does, even though the ZIP's own post office on Highway 707 is named Socastee), but this is its own community, and we treat it that way.
No made-up job history here. Our crews have been wiring new construction across the Grand Strand — this is the service work those same electricians are equipped for in Socastee.
Socastee is unincorporated, so electrical permits go through Horry County Code Enforcement in Conway — the county requires a permit for any work that changes your home's wiring. We pull the permit, schedule the inspection through the county's online portal, and close it out so you don't have to.
Usually not, and it's worth knowing before you buy a charger. Santee Cooper's rebate is limited to its own residential customers, and most Socastee homes are Horry Electric Cooperative members. Near the Myrtle Beach city line the utility can change street to street, so check whose name is on your power bill. We'll confirm what actually applies to your address before we quote the install.
Yes. After Florence in 2018 the Intracoastal backed into Socastee homes, and low-lying streets near the Waterway have flooded more than once since. Wiring, receptacles, and panels that have been underwater can fail long after they dry out. We inspect flood-affected electrical systems, replace what's compromised, and can mount new panels and receptacles higher where it makes sense.
Yes. Roughly one in ten homes in the 29588 area is a manufactured home, and we handle the feeder, service pole, and panel work they need — including the separate mobile home permit Horry County requires.
A licensed electrician comes out, finds the problem, and gives you a straight quote before any work starts. The $89 diagnostic visit is credited back on any job of $275 or more, so on most repairs the visit ends up costing you nothing.
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