Need Electrician's advice

I don't know where to post this type of question, either here or Indoor growing? I need to hire an electrician to separate the circuits in my house. You see, the upstairs bedroom and the downstairs bedroom are both run on a 20Amp circuit. This is not even close to good enough for me to think about growing. I need my upstairs bedroom on its own circuit. The house was built in the 1920s, so I'm sure the wiring is not close to what I want to do. I need to upgrade the wiring so that I can have at least a 40amp circuit breaker to the bedroom, I might need a 60Amp, I'm not sure. I want to be running at least 1600 Watts just for the lights. I am assuming the electrician will be tearing up the walls to do this kind of work. I probably will just have them upgrade the wiring to a gauge #4. Will I need to hire somebody else to patch up the walls once he/she is done with the wiring? How expensive (average) is this kind of job? Is this a suspicious request to have done? Thanks

Have u upgraded your breaker panel? If it's 1920's and you still have a fuse box that's an easy place to start. If the bedrooms are common at the fuse box you could separate them at the new panel but I'd never try and run anything close to 1.6kW on that old stuff, leave it all for domestic lighting. Why don't you get some good 6/3 wire and run a 220v line to the room you plan to grow in and run everything off that, you could run the ballasts at 220v and keep 'em cooler too. I used this:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Cerrowire-50-ft-6-3-NM-B-Wire-147-4203B/202206572#.UghDqeB8t0M
You should have enough electrical experience to change the panel if you can grow, just be sure to turn everything off while working!!!!! No shortcuts even if it means down a ladder or crawling. Get a Square D panel at an electrical supply house, sized so you have enough space for a couple more circuits; they will sell to you, or go to Grainger. You have many options with the 6/3 wire, in the wall will require plaster work (or shitrock if it's been updated) or you could run it outside the wall in conduit, many many options. Sounds like a fun afternoon project just be totally aware that any electrician will know exactly what you want to do. The 6/3 option is also kinda explainable to power a hot tub if you need an excuse and you can run everything for a 1.6kW grow safely on the 6/3 with some room for inevitable expansion in the future. Just let go of the idea of rewiring the whole place, no need! If the panel has been updated to breakers just look to see if there is enough space on the bus for a two pole breaker, there should be knockouts at the top or bottom hopefully. Then just turn everything off at the main before touching anything, decide where you want the 6/3 wire in or out of the walls and get it to the panel. Then separate the conductors and connect them to the appropriate lug screw and then push the breaker onto the bus bar. I'm no electrician but I'm also not a big risk taker, if this seems daunting try and find a cool electrician, there's lots of good ones out there and I'm sure many would be cool, just pay them well and don't jerk them around and I'm sure you'd be good.

An electrician can add a seperate breaker/fuse to the panel. And just wire the downstairs bedroom to it. The wires to the bedroom are already there just need its own circuit. If it's done this way it shouldn't be costly at all. Very cheap work to have done.

Or like the person said above. Get a pony panel with breakers and run its own wiring to the basement. If your fuse box is already in the basement this will make things very, very easy.

It's not an old Fuse box. It looks pretty new (updated). It's a Square D circuit panel (circuit breakers). However, there is no more room for expansion on the circuit breaker box.

If you hire an electrician it can run you between $350 to $1200 depending on the nature of the work and where you live. I would get 2 - 30 amp 220 circuits. You need to know what "amp service" you have at your house. Old stuff can have as low as 30 amp service but was usually 50 amp service. Common now for a modest sized house is 100 amp. This is important. You need to know how much juice you want to use. Make sure to factor in some AC and the ballasts of course. You can usually upgrade with little trouble but you should do all of this at the same time if you want to have it in the end. It will require a larger cable coming from the main line in front of your house which is a bit pricey.