The breaker trips again. You walk to the garage, flip it back, and wonder how many more times this happens before it becomes a real problem. If your panel is original to the house, the honest answer is: it already is one.
An electrical panel upgrade replaces your home's breaker box — usually a 100-amp panel from the era the house was built — with a modern 200-amp panel sized for how homes are actually used now: air conditioning running five months a year, an EV in the garage, a spa on the patio. In Clark County the work requires a permit and inspection, and most swaps are done in a single day.
TL;DR
Panels rarely fail all at once. They tell you first. The signals worth taking seriously:
Two brands come up constantly in Las Vegas homes built or remodeled from the 1960s through the early 1980s:
Insurance companies know these names too. Some carriers decline coverage or require replacement before writing a policy. If a home inspector flagged your panel during a sale, this is why.
A breaker that won't trip isn't a breaker. It's a copper bar with a false sense of security.
Not sure what's in your garage? Call (702) 625-9814 and describe the label — we'll tell you in two minutes whether it's on the watch list.
Amperage is the ceiling on how much electricity your home can use at once. A 100-amp panel was the standard when the biggest load in the house was an electric range. Stack a modern Las Vegas summer on top — central air running for hours, a pool pump, a garage refrigerator, and then an EV charger pulling steadily all night — and the ceiling gets low fast.
A 200-amp panel doubles that headroom. It's what new construction gets by default, and it's the sensible target for any upgrade, because the labor is the same whether you install a small panel or a right-sized one.
Thinking about an EV or a spa? Do the panel first. A Level 2 EV charger typically wants a 40–60 amp circuit of its own; a 240V hot tub wants 50–60 amps. On a 100-amp panel, either one can consume most of your remaining capacity. We install hot tub circuits and EV chargers, and we size the panel work so the next project doesn't hit a wall.
A panel swap is straightforward for a licensed crew, but there are more moving parts than the finished product suggests:
A panel change in the Las Vegas valley is permitted work, full stop. The permit isn't bureaucratic decoration — it's what makes the inspection happen, and the inspection is what documents that the most important electrical device in your house was installed correctly. That paper trail matters when you sell the home and when your insurer asks.
We pull the permit under our license, schedule the inspection, and meet the inspector. If you want to understand the process in more detail, our Las Vegas electrical permit and code guide walks through it.
There is no single price for a panel upgrade, and any company that quotes one over the phone without questions is guessing. What moves the number:
What we promise: a written, itemized price before work starts, and no surprise line items after.
Plan for the power outage the way you'd plan for a short outage in a storm: fridge closed, devices charged, garage door released once so you know how to open it by hand.
Panel upgrades and replacements across the Las Vegas valley: Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin, Spring Valley, Enterprise, Paradise, Boulder City, and the surrounding communities. See the full service area.
Repeated breaker trips, warmth or buzzing at the panel, flickering lights under load, rust, fuses instead of breakers, or a Federal Pacific or Zinsco label are all reasons to have it evaluated. An inspection settles it: we check the bus, the breakers, the connections, and the load, then tell you whether the panel is a problem or a scapegoat.
Sometimes — a smaller home with gas appliances and no EV can live comfortably on 100 amps. The trouble starts when central AC, electric cooking, a spa, or a car charger stack up. A load calculation gives the real answer for your house rather than a generic one.
Yes. Panel replacement in Clark County requires a permit and passes through inspection. We pull the permit under our license and meet the inspector, and the closed permit becomes part of the home's record — which helps at resale and with insurance.
Plan on several hours. The exact window depends on utility disconnect scheduling and what we find behind the old panel. We confirm the plan with you before the day starts so it isn't a surprise.
That's one of the most common reasons we do this work. We size the new panel and service around the load you're planning — charger, spa, addition — so the follow-on project is a circuit run instead of a second panel job.
Carriers commonly flag Federal Pacific, Zinsco, and fuse boxes. We inspect it, confirm what you actually have, and if replacement is warranted we handle the swap, the permit, and the inspection paperwork your insurer wants to see.
Free estimate, upfront pricing, and a licensed crew that pulls the permit and meets the inspector.
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Safety note: This page is general information about electrical panels, not a substitute for an on-site evaluation. Panel interiors remain energized even with the main breaker off — never open the panel cover yourself.