Panel upgrades
100 to 200 amp, and the service drop that has to come with it.
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Licensed master · Permitted work · Same-week panels
The panel is the story. The outlet is the symptom.
Breakers that trip when the oven and the dryer share a moment, a 1964 fuse box behind the panel, EV chargers on a 100-amp service — Northstar sizes the work to the house, pulls the permit, and leaves the directory labeled.
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Services
The electrical work these houses age into.
Breakers & circuits
The kitchen that was never recircuited for modern loads.
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Aluminum, Federal Pacific, and the junction in the attic.
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A circuit that is legal, not a dryer outlet with a prayer.
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Kitchens, baths, and the basement that became a room.
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No power, burning smell, or a panel that is warm to the touch.
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Describe the symptom
Which breaker, which rooms, and a photo of the panel if you can.
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We look before we bid
Load, service size, and whether the utility has to be involved.
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Permit, schedule, label
The directory will make sense when we leave.
Permit-first shop
Electricians who label the directory when they leave.
Asha Bennett runs Northstar after a decade of service calls where the last crew left a panel looking like a junk drawer. We pull permits on upgrades. We do not hide a Federal Pacific behind a new cover and call it done.
How we work
Three promises that keep the phone honest.
No cover-and-hope panels
Federal Pacific, Zinsco, and damaged buses get said plainly.
Permits on the jobs that need them
We will not talk you out of one to win the bid.
A labeled panel
The next person in that box should not need a tracer.
Proof
Recent work
Cameron Village · Panel
A 100-amp service and a new range
The range was legal. The rest of the house was not. 200-amp upgrade, utility coordinated, kitchen stayed on a temp.
Cary · Breaker
Office lights that blinked when the AC started
Loose lug on a shared bus, not a new panel. Tightened, torque-marked, done in an hour.
Neighbors
What they told the next homeowner.
★★★★★
“They declined the ‘just swap the breaker’ request and showed me why.”
Lauren D., North Hills★★★★★
“Permit, inspection, labeled panel. Adult work.”
Marcus F., Apex★★★★★
“EV charger estimate included the panel math, not just the wall unit.”
Jin P., MorrisvilleAreas
Wake County, on a regular route.
North RaleighNorth HillsOakwoodBrier CreekCaryGarnerWake ForestKnightdaleApexHolly Springs
Questions
The things people ask before they call.
Do I need a panel upgrade?
If you are at 100 amps with electric range, dryer, and AC — often yes. We measure before we quote.
Will you pull a permit?
On service changes, panel swaps, and most EV circuits, yes.
Can you work on aluminum wiring?
We evaluate and remediate. We do not pretend it is copper.
Is a warm panel an emergency?
Yes. Kill what you can, call, and do not keep resetting the same breaker.
Recent result
“They declined the ‘just swap the breaker’ request and showed me why.”
Lauren D., North Hills