If your electrical panel doesn’t meet your current safety requirements, you need to increase your load capacity, or you simply want a more energy-efficient panel, SouthSota Mister Sparky can help.
What is Your Electrical Panel?
Every home contains an electrical panel, sometimes called the breaker box or the service panel. This panel is the primary control unit for all of the electricity that runs to and from your home. It distributes electricity from the power lines outside through your meter can and into the different circuits in your home.
It is important that you have the right size electrical panel as they come in different power amounts, referred to as amps. In addition they also have safety components like fuses and circuit breakers. When there is an electrical malfunction or an electrical fire, your electrical panel shuts off automatically in order to prevent overloads.
If you don’t have the right size, your electrical panel is too old, or your safety features aren’t working, it could compromise the integrity of your electrical system and your home.
Our team can help. Call SouthSota Mister Sparky today.
3 Reasons to Choose Electrical Panel Replacement Northfield, MN
At SouthSota Mister Sparky, our Northfield, MN licensed electricians can help you with an electrical panel replacement or an upgrade. So when should you call our team?
Safety
The biggest reason to call SouthSota Mister Sparky for electrical panel replacement in Northfield, MN, is safety. If you live in an older home in the Northfield area, your paneling may no longer conform to safety requirements.
One way you can check this is to take a look at the inside of your electrical panel yourself. If you open the door and the electrical panel looks overwhelming, with wires running every direction, overcrowded, some of them frayed or damaged, call our team immediately for an assessment.
Other safety features might be things you notice in your home, such as an electrical panel that feels warm to the touch or has burn marks, flickering lights in your home, or circuit breakers that trip constantly.
Supply
The second biggest reason to call SouthSota Mister Sparky is when your electrical panel doesn’t provide the right load capacity. This can happen in older homes but it can also happen in slightly newer homes, depending on whether or not you have added upgrades or highly demanding appliances to your home.
For example, if you have added an extra room as a result of a growing family, that means the demand on your electrical panel has increased but the infrastructure may not have. Our team can check for permits with local authorities and make sure that your home is supplied with the right level of load.
Selling
Another reason you might need an electrical panel replacement in Northfield, MN is because you were trying to sell your home and you want to make sure that the process of selling your home is made as simple and move as possible by creating a turn key home.
With our team of local electricians, we can ensure that your home’s electrical system supports your current needs, is updated in accordance with safety requirements, and offers an energy efficient system for any potential buyers.
What to Expect from SouthSota Mister Sparky of Northfield
Our electricians in Northfield, MN, will ensure that you get a full breakdown of the process before we begin.
When you call our team to schedule your electrical panel replacement in Northfield, we will start by sending a team of highly trained electricians who have undergone background checks and drug testing to your home to conduct an assessment.
This assessment is based on years of experience and access to ongoing education. That assessment will explain what you can expect in terms of the service itself and the time and labor.
- When it comes to your electrical panel replacement, we will start by cutting off the power supply to your home and we will try to do so in such a way that you experience minimal disruptions.
- From there, the old panel will be removed, and we will dispose of it properly.
- The new panel will be installed, and all new circuits will be wired to your new panel.
- We will ensure that any ground rods and breakers are properly installed and connected.
- In the end you will undergo an electrical inspection to make sure that everything is up to code after which power will be turned back on.
We will review how long you can expect to be without power once we have conducted our assessment but we aim to complete the job as expeditiously as possible.
Call SouthSota Mister Sparky today to schedule your appointment.
Electrical Panel Installation FAQs
Your electrical panel serves to protect against power surges, while the breaker box helps regulate your electrical current. Problems with either present a problem, and our team can help determine the source of your electrical issue and the most appropriate repair.
It is safer and often a better financial investment to simply install a new electrical panel, even if your panel only has a single breaker that is worn out. The exception here is if you plan to conduct remodels to your home within the next year, at which point you will have a new panel installed. However, barring this scenario, our team of licensed electricians will recommend that you have your entire electrical panel replacement in Northfield, MN.
Most electrical panels should be replaced between every 25 and 40 years. If you live in a much older home in Northfield, call our team for an assessment. At SouthSota Mister Sparky, our licensed electricians can determine whether the electrical panel in your home is old enough that it should be replaced.
In some cases you can legally get away with replacing an electrical panel yourself as long as you have an inspection done at the end, however, replacing an electrical panel is a very dangerous and complicated procedure that requires a great deal of training, knowledge, code compliance, and professional tools. Our team at SouthSota Mister Sparky comes equipped with all of this for every job.
The cost for an electrical panel installation will vary based on how many amps you have for your house, whether you are installing a new electrical panel or replacing an existing one, and other factors. Before we begin, our team of licensed electricians will review the estimates for time and labor with an honest, straightforward assessment.
