Electrical Panel Upgrades & Home Rewiring

Breakers that trip when you run the microwave and the air conditioner together. Lights that dim when the HVAC kicks on. A panel with no open slots left, or one packed with tandem breakers doubled into single spaces. Any of these mean the service is being asked to carry more than it was designed for.

Older homes across O'Fallon, St. Peters and St. Charles were wired for a fraction of today's load. Add an EV charger, a hot tub, a finished basement or a heat pump and a 100-amp service runs out of headroom fast. We perform a load calculation first, so the recommendation is based on your actual demand rather than a guess.

A standard panel replacement is a one-day job. We pull the electrical permit with your municipality, schedule the utility disconnect, set the new panel and meter base, land and label every circuit, drive new grounding electrodes, and install AFCI/GFCI protection where current code requires it.

You get a clearly labeled directory, a walkthrough of what changed, and the inspection scheduled on your behalf. Nothing is closed up until it passes.

Knob-and-tube and cloth-insulated wiring were never designed for grounded appliances or modern insulation. Aluminum branch wiring from the 1960s and 70s develops loose, overheating connections at the terminations. Both are common findings in home inspections, and both can hold up a sale or an insurance policy.

We rewire in stages where it makes sense — worst circuits first — so the house stays livable and the cost is predictable. Where a full rewire is not warranted, we can remediate aluminum terminations with approved connectors instead.