Garage electrical panel

[WTucker]

#1. This guy is a crook. There is no way he pulled a permit for a job he was bidding! And if you live in the county there is no permit involved.

#2. It’s perfectly legal to make a splice in your panel.

#3. I wanted to touch back again on the pricing. Every company knows what they need to make an hour in order to function. Everyone’s overhead is different. For me to send a crew to your house and have them poke around for an hour and quote the job I need $105 to pretty much break even. Might make $5. Lol. We believe in pricing jobs off of time and material, not what someone is willing to pay for it. It sounds to me like you are calling multiple service companies and most of those guys are known for being high. I suggest you drive thru a neighborhood with some new construction going on in it and attempt to get some business cards from those guys. I bet they will be a whole lot more affordable.

#4. Did he say anything about the load in the panel? Did he check that? Also I can’t tell from the picture but what size circuit breakers are those #12’s connected too? I have a hard time believing that every single circuit in that panel had a loose connection. Do you constantly see Flickering lights? Do you hear arcing in the panel? I’m not buying the guys story but I’m not there looking at it. Also try not to give anyone else the information the previous electrician told you. See if their story is the same. Be patient. You will find someone honest.


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X2 on all this. I am curious why he thought the whole panel needs replacement. There has to be an underlying problem, and it’s hard to say without personally being there. I just don’t see the panel being bad from those pictures.

[EarleyBird]

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[8mpg]

When my parents were looking at houses a couple of them were offering $4k or so to replace a panel.

If that is a subpanel, Id definitely do it myself. Shut off the power to the box and you are good to go

[topshot]

so he wants $2500 because of loose terminations - what a load...
you could refeed every circuit in that panel, and put a new panel in for close to $2500 bucks. and don't give in to his $200 city permit garbage.

don't walk away from that contractor, run!

I rewired my entire kitchen, installed 2 new subpanels, terminated and ran over 200' of 6/3 cable for less than $2500, including pay for 2 electricians for 12 hours of labor each.

[WTucker]

so he wants $2500 because of loose terminations - what a load...
you could refeed every circuit in that panel, and put a new panel in for close to $2500 bucks. and don't give in to his $200 city permit garbage.

don't walk away from that contractor, run!

I rewired my entire kitchen, installed 2 new subpanels, terminated and ran over 200' of 6/3 cable for less than $2500, including pay for 2 electricians for 12 hours of labor each.

For all that, you got a deal of that is including labor and materials.

[justletmein]

Really appreciate all the help. I started this thread more as an uh oh and to complain but it turned into an eye opener.
Flash no nothing was diagnosed just went straight to the quotes. I called the city 10 mins ago there's no permit yet. That's the last red flag I can handle I canceled them out. I think I found a real electrician very well spoken and confident and first thing he said is well we need to find out why it happened before talking about replacing parts. I'm gonna call him back and just pay for a service call and go from there.

[justletmein]

Electrician just left, real deal good old boy owns his company and just a little bit shady as it's supposed to be lol. He metered stuff and tested stuff, still no root cause. Says I'm not overloading anything and all looks good. This damage could be very old who knows but I'm a bit more satisfied that there doesnt seem to be any obvious issues at least. No charge for the visit surprised me, gonna send me quotes with a couple options to repair the damaged stuff, which also gives me confidence as there's no high pressure sales pitch talk.

[Brazos Hunter]

Electrician just left, real deal good old boy owns his company and just a little bit shady as it's supposed to be lol. He metered stuff and tested stuff, still no root cause. Says I'm not overloading anything and all looks good. This damage could be very old who knows but I'm a bit more satisfied that there doesnt seem to be any obvious issues at least. No charge for the visit surprised me, gonna send me quotes with a couple options to repair the damaged stuff, which also gives me confidence as there's no high pressure sales pitch talk.

Sounds like a good company to do business with to me!


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[Quackerbox]

Dang. Who is he? I'll need one to wire a house in a year or so

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[justletmein]

His company is Approved Electrical or something like that. I'll report back assuming I have him do the work which seems probable. The original company I had come out was Jon Wayne.

[FLASH_OUTDOORS]

Sounds like a good company to do business with to me!


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[db@100]

Find someone you trust and stick with them. I have customers that I have done work for since 1968.

[Everett Miles]

It’s wise for you to learn how to test a circuit breaker with a digital multimeter. If you know how to do that, you can do basic troubleshooting without calling an electrician, thus saving you time and money.

[Agdog]

It’s wise for you to learn how to test a circuit breaker with a digital multimeter. If you know how to do that, you can do basic troubleshooting without calling an electrician, thus saving you time and money.

Wisdom worth sitting on for 4 years before sharing!

[justletmein]

Wisdom worth sitting on for 4 years before sharing!

It's a good reminder, think I'll go open the panel and give it an inspection to see if my new panel still looks good.