The panel is the heart of your home's electrical system — and in many Stuart homes, it is undersized for modern life. A 100-amp service with a full breaker panel leaves no room for a new AC system, an EV charger, or a generator, and it can leave existing circuits chronically overloaded.
We upgrade residential panels across Stuart and Martin County to 200-amp service with room to grow, permitted and inspected, with the price in writing before work begins.
Signs Your Panel Is Maxed Out
The panel is full — every slot taken, or worse, stuffed with tandem breakers that were never meant to be there. Breakers trip when the AC and the dryer run together. The lights dim when large loads start. You are planning an addition, a new AC system, an EV charger, or a generator, and there is nowhere to land the circuit.
Age matters too. Older panels with known design problems, corroded bus bars, or breakers that no longer trip reliably are not just inconvenient — they are the part of the system that is supposed to protect everything else.
What an Upgrade Includes
A proper service upgrade replaces the panel with a modern 200-amp load center, sizes the service entrance conductors to match, replaces the meter can where needed, and lands every circuit on correctly sized breakers — labeled, so the next person who opens the panel knows what is what.
We run a load calculation first, so the new service is sized to your actual loads: the AC, the water heater, the dryer, the range, the EV charger you are planning, the generator transfer switch. No guessing, no overselling.
Permits, Power Company, and Inspection
Panel upgrades require an electrical permit and coordination with the power company, since the service gets disconnected and reconnected during the work. We pull the permit, schedule the utility coordination, and handle the final inspection.
Most upgrades finish in a day. You will be without power for part of it — we schedule the outage window with you in advance so it lands at the least disruptive time.
Common questions
How do I know if I need a panel upgrade?
The clear signals: a full panel with no open slots, breakers that trip under normal use, plans for an EV charger, generator, or new AC system, or an aging panel with breakers that don't trip reliably. A load calculation gives the definitive answer.
What does a panel upgrade cost?
It depends on the service size, the condition of the meter can and service entrance, and any utility coordination needed. We evaluate your panel and price the job in writing before work begins.
Will I lose power during the upgrade?
Yes, for part of the day — the service gets disconnected while we swap the equipment. We schedule the window with you in advance, and most upgrades finish the same day.
Can you add circuits without a full upgrade?
Sometimes — a subpanel or rearranging circuits can buy room if the service itself has capacity. We check the load calculation first and recommend the smallest fix that actually solves it.
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(561) 786-1337