You’re adding a big load.
An EV charger, a hot tub, air conditioning, a heat pump, a garage workshop, or a basement suite. Most 100-amp services in Calgary are already close to their limit before any of these are added.
Panel Upgrades
Electrical Panel Upgrades in Calgary
Your panel is the part of your house nobody thinks about until it can’t cope. Then it becomes the reason you can’t add a hot tub, install an EV charger, or run the dryer and the oven at the same time without something tripping.
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Is a panel upgrade right for you?
POWERING CALGARY HOMES FOR WHAT’S NEXT.
Your panel is old.
If your home was built before the mid-1980s and the panel has never been touched, it’s worth a look. Some panel makes from that era are known to develop breaker faults and are difficult or impossible to source parts for.
Something is telling you.
Breakers that trip under normal load, lights that dim when an appliance starts, a panel that’s warm, hums, or shows rust or scorching. Any of those is a reason to call rather than wait.
You’re selling or buying.
A 60-amp service will come up in an inspection, and it will come up in the negotiation.
What’s included.
A complete, end-to-end service so your home is safer and up to today’s electrical standards.
Load calculation
before anything else, we work out what your home actually draws and what it will draw once you’ve added whatever prompted the call
Service upgrade to 200 amps
panel, breakers, grounding and bonding brought up to current code
Service mast and meter base replacement
where the existing one won’t carry the new service
Coordination with your utility
for the service disconnect and reconnect
Permit and inspection
pulled, scheduled and passed as part of the job
Panel replacement
where the enclosure is sound but the panel itself is obsolete or unsafe
Whole-home surge protection
fitted at the panel
Circuit labelling
a legible, accurate directory, which most panels we open do not have
What to expect.
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We look at what you’ve got.
The panel, the service entrance, the meter base, and the loads already on it. We do the load calculation properly rather than guessing from square footage.
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We quote before we start.
You get a fixed price covering labour, materials, the permit and the inspection. No allowances that turn into surprises.
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We schedule the utility.
A service upgrade means the power comes off for part of a day. We arrange that with your utility and tell you exactly when, so you can plan around it.
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We do the work.
Usually a day. The new panel goes in, circuits are transferred and labelled, grounding and bonding brought to code.
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Inspection.
The permit is inspected and closed. You get the paperwork — worth keeping for your insurer and for whoever buys the house.
SAFE HOMES. STRONGER COMMUNITIES.
Questions we get asked.
How long will my power be off?
Most of a working day for a full service upgrade. We give you the window in advance and we stick to it. A panel swap without a service change is usually shorter.
Do I need a permit?
Yes, and we pull it. An unpermitted panel upgrade is a problem when you sell, and a bigger problem if you ever need to claim on it.
Is 200 amps overkill for my house?
It rarely is any more. Between EV charging, air conditioning and basement development, homes draw substantially more than they did when 100-amp services became standard. Upgrading once costs less than upgrading twice.
Can you just add a subpanel instead?
Sometimes, and if that’s the right answer we’ll say so. A subpanel adds circuit spaces but not capacity — if the service is the constraint, a subpanel doesn’t solve it.
What is surge protection actually for?
It clamps voltage spikes before they reach what’s plugged in. Furnace boards, appliance electronics and anything with a chip in it are what usually die in a surge, and they’re rarely worth the deductible individually.
YOUR HOME. OUR PRIORITY.
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