Typically adding an additional sub-panel to your home’s electrical system is required to accommodate additional circuits when either, your existing sub-panel is filled up, or you have several new circuits being installed in an area far away from where your existing sub-panel is located. We will determine the amperage and breaker space needed for your new sub-panel. This is calculated based on the information you provide us with the added load or loads anticipated. When possible, we will supply you with additional amperage and breaker space beyond your added load requirements, for future.

Replacing your existing sub-panel with a larger one is another way to achieve more circuit breaker space to accommodate additional circuits. Other reasons when replacing your existing sub-panel is recommended are:

• When your sub-panel has reached the age of 30; this is about the life expectancy of a circuit breaker.
• If the manufacturer of your panel is Federal Pacific, Sylvania or Zinsco, these manufacturers produced circuit breakers and panels that are considered to be fire hazards.
• If you are upgrading your circuit breakers from the standard type, to the combination arc-fault type, which we call a “Smart upgrade”. Often your existing sub-panel doesn’t have the physical breaker space needed to accommodate arc-fault circuit breakers. These breakers require a full space in a sub-panel and if your existing sub-panels utilizes, twin or wafer circuit breakers, than chances are you don’t have enough space and a bigger sub-panel will need to be installed.
• If you have either intermittent power issues or flickering lights, and it has been determined that the buss, or one of the main lugs that the feeder wires connect to in your panel, is deteriorating than we recommend replacing your sub-panel.