The cost of having a residential electrical service upgraded to 100 amperes depends on many factors, however, it usually never costs less than  $1,900.00 + taxes. For 200 amperes it will cost an approx. $350 to $600 more. EXACT PRICES may even be quite less and are given on site or shortly after viewing the work.

What does a service upgrade mean and what is the result of upgrading the service?

A service change will make it possible to add many more circuits to the panel. It does nothing at all to improve the fact that fuses blow or circuit breakers trip on overloads. If you keep blowing fuses now, after the change over, with a new panel, exactly the same thing will happen except it will be the new circuit breakers tripping instead of the fuses blowing. It may even get worst  if the fuses which were there were over sized! In that case you may have circuit breakers tripping when the fuses never blew before in about 30 years! Why can that happen if - response from some customers: "oh we never had a fuse blown in 30 years!" " Why should it happen after a new service and panel is installed?"

Because we will never install a 20, 25 or 30 amp circuit breaker to replace an over sized fuse.
To correct such occurrences additional wiring or wiring alterations in key areas of your home or building may have to be done.

Therefore, upgrading the service is a good start, but not a magical solution - it will not solve overload problems, even if it is 1,000 amperes!  However, it will stop blowing the MAIN FUSES OR TRIPPING OF THE MAIN BREAKER.
A service upgrade has to be done first and in some situations, soon after, there may be a need to run some new cables (new circuits) and install some new outlets in critical areas such as in the kitchen and laundry areas and outdoors etc. We will also include a price for any type of urgent work needed usually at a reduced price. However, any work decided later on when the service change is underway, will cost much more due to rescheduling.

We are set up to do service upgrades smoothly without hardly any interruptions in the normal daily activities of home owners. All power to lights, plugs,  furnace etc. will be kept on while ALL the work is being done. We will do the work to  fit in your schedule and also work Saturdays.

 Upgrading is, in most cases, to replace all service equipment and install a complete new service. The meter will be outdoors, there will be access to more power and circuits to connect an air conditioning, a dryer, a hot tub, garage, kitchen receptacles, an addition, rec. room, baseboard electric heat etc. Existing overloaded circuits, in many cases, will be corrected with a new panel when it includes some wiring alterations usually near by the panel.