Site visit and load check
We look at your panel, your service, and what you're adding.
An electrical panel upgrade replaces the breaker panel that feeds every circuit in your home, and sometimes the service coming in from the utility, so the house can safely carry what you’re adding. We check yours on the first visit and tell you plainly whether it needs one.
BEFORE WE REPLACE ANYTHING
Most of the panel upgrades we do start with something bigger, like an EV charger, a Tesla Powerwall, a hot tub, or a kitchen remodel. On the first visit, we run a load calculation, which adds up what your home already uses and what you’re planning to add, and that tells us whether your panel can carry it. Sometimes the answer is one new circuit instead of a new panel, and that’s what we’ll quote.
WHY GROUNDED SOLUTIONS
Nobody on our crew earns more for recommending a bigger panel or a smart one.
The panel, any service work, the permit, and the utility coordination are listed separately on your quote.
We’re SPAN Panel, Tesla Powerwall, and Qmerit certified, so your panel is planned around the charger or battery you add later.
You’ll know the name of the electrician coming out, and we label every circuit before we leave.
WHEN TO UPGRADE
Big new loads are the most common reason. If the panel is out of capacity or breaker spaces, we size the upgrade for the EV charger and anything else on your list, so the panel work only happens once.
Home inspectors and insurers often flag these because of concerns about breakers that may not trip when they should. If you have one, we’ll look at it and quote the replacement.
Many older homes still run on 100 amps. A remodel, an addition or a new heat pump is usually the time to move to 200. Just adding a charger? You may not need to.
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– Clay Hamilton, President
YOUR OPTIONS
The load calculation from your first visit decides which of these fits your home.
A new breaker panel at the same service size. It fits when your panel is outdated, damaged or out of spaces but the home has enough capacity.
This raises how much power your home can draw from the utility, usually from 100 to 200 amps, with a new meter base and main panel. Larger homes with several big loads sometimes need more, and the load calculation will show it.
It does everything a standard panel does and shows real-time use for each circuit in an app, where you can switch circuits and pick which ones stay on during an outage with a battery. It costs more, so we recommend it when you’re adding a Powerwall, solar or more than one EV charger.
HOW IT WORKS
We look at your panel, your service, and what you're adding.
On a quoted job, the price is the price. If we open a wall and find something nobody could see, we stop and talk it through with you first.
We pull the permit and schedule the power disconnect and reconnect with AES Indiana or Duke Energy.
Your power is off for a couple of hours while we swap the panel, and we'll plan the day with you ahead of time.
The inspector signs off, and we show you the new panel with every circuit labeled.
FAQ
Most panel replacements take one day, with the power off for part of it. A service upgrade can take longer because the utility has to disconnect and reconnect your power, and we schedule that ahead of time.
Not always. Many homes on 100-amp service can add a Level 2 charger after a load calculation, sometimes with the charger set to a lower amperage. We run the numbers on the first visit and tell you which applies.
Yes. Panel and service upgrades need an electrical permit and an inspection. We pull the permit, schedule the inspection and put both on your quote.
It can, if we plan for it. Tell us what's on your list, and we'll size the panel so the next project doesn't mean redoing it.
We’ll set a time to look at it and send a quote that breaks the work into line items.