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Send us a photo of the panel label. It saves both of us a trip.
Give us the job address and what is wrong or what you want added. Brand, amperage and open slots off the panel label get you a range. A site visit gets you a fixed, written number.
Tell a Chicago electrician about the job.
Name, phone, job address and the consent box are needed. Everything else helps us bring the right parts the first time.
What to send
Five things that turn a guess into a range.
Reply to our call or email with these and we can usually tell you on the phone whether the job is a half-day repair or a 200 amp service upgrade. Photos beat descriptions. Take them in daylight or with a flashlight, cover on, nothing touched.
- The label inside the panel door. Brand, bus rating and the size of the main breaker are all printed there. Do not take the dead-front off to find it.
- A photo of the breakers with the door open. We count spaces, spot tandems and see whether anything is a different brand from the panel.
- The meter outside, with the mast or the line coming into the building in the same frame. That decides how a service change goes.
- For an EV charger: where the car parks and how far that is from the panel. Paces are fine. A detached garage off the alley changes the run a lot.
- The correction notice, if an inspection already failed. It tells us more in thirty seconds than ten minutes of phone description.
After you press send
From your message to a written quote.
Nobody turns up with a van full of parts on the first visit. The first visit is for looking.
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We call you back
Usually the same or next working day. A few questions about the panel and the building. Sometimes that is enough to say the job needs no visit at all.
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Site visit, cover off
About an hour for a house, longer for a two-flat with two meters. We look at the meter, the panel interior and the basement runs, and for a rewire we open a box or two to see what is behind the plaster.
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Fixed written quote
Usually within two working days. Conduit, breakers, devices, the permit and the patch-back, each on its own line. One number for the scope on paper, and it does not move unless the scope does.
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Permit and a start date
You approve, we pull the permit. On service work we also book the utility meter appointment. You get the realistic start date, not the hopeful one.
Electrical repair in Chicago
Breaker keeps tripping? Stop resetting it.
If the same breaker trips twice, something on that circuit is wrong. Resetting it a third time just finds out what melts first. Turn it off, note what was running when it went, and call 312-284-7542.
A dead receptacle in a Chicago bungalow is rarely the receptacle. Most of the time it is a back-stabbed connection two boxes upstream that has been arcing for years, or a loose neutral at a splice somebody closed in behind drywall. Swapping the outlet makes the symptom go away for a week.
So we trace it with a meter, circuit loaded, until the bad connection shows itself. You get told what failed and where, and the repair is quoted before we do it. If we find aluminum branch wiring or a panel full of the wrong brand of breaker, we say so plainly, because that changes what you should spend.
- Fault we find most: a loose or back-stabbed device connection.
- Close second: a 15A circuit carrying a space heater and a microwave.
- What we flag in writing: unlisted tandems, double-tapped neutrals, 14 AWG on a 20A breaker.
- Price basis: diagnostic visit first, repair quoted before any work.