Your electrical panel is the heart of your home's electrical system - it's where power from the utility company enters and gets distributed throughout your house. If you're experiencing frequent breaker trips, still have an old fuse box, or need more power for modern appliances, it's time to consider panel replacement. At Chadwick Home Services, we've been upgrading electrical panels in Windsor, Fort Collins, Loveland, and Greeley homes since 1971, ensuring families have safe, reliable power for all their needs.
Living with an outdated or failing electrical panel isn't just inconvenient - it can be dangerous. Many homeowners don't realize their panel needs attention until problems become severe. Here's what we look for during our inspections:
Dangerous Panel Brands: If your home has a Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) Stab-Lok panel or a Zinsco panel, replacement isn't optional - it's urgent. These panels have documented safety issues:
Beyond safety concerns, an inadequate panel affects your daily life:
These visible and audible signs indicate immediate attention is needed:
Panels installed before 1990 often can't handle today's electrical demands:
Modern homes require significantly more electrical capacity than older panels can provide:
Today's electrical panels are engineering marvels compared to older models. The improvements focus on safety, capacity, and functionality.
Modern panels include multiple safety features that weren't available in older systems:
Main Breaker: The main breaker is your home's electrical shutoff switch, controlling all power to the home and rated for total service capacity.
Branch Circuit Breakers: Individual breakers protect specific circuits from bedroom and living areas (15-amp) to major appliances (30-50 amp).
When you contact Chadwick Home Services, we start with a comprehensive evaluation:
Our certified electricians follow a meticulous process:
The most common upgrade we perform brings older homes up to modern standards:
Large homes and those with extensive electrical needs may require 400-amp service:
Every home is different. We tailor your panel upgrade to safety, capacity, and future plans—so the final investment reflects the exact scope of work rather than a one-size-fits-all price.
Primary drivers include current panel condition, whether a service upgrade is required, wiring updates, permits and inspections, accessibility, code compliance updates, added safety features, and any utility company coordination.
Basic replacement: Swap an outdated or unsafe panel for a new, code-compliant unit with like-for-like capacity. Minimal wiring changes and straightforward access.
Service upgrade (e.g., 100 to 200 amp): Increases capacity to support modern loads, often involving new meter base, service conductors, grounding improvements, and utility coordination.
Full service modernization: Ideal for renovations or additions, combining a new panel, capacity increase, selective circuit rewiring, surge protection, and future-ready features.
Homes built before 1980 may require extra care due to legacy materials, undersized conductors, or limited grounding. We address safe remediation, working space challenges, and code updates while preserving your home’s character.
A modern panel delivers immediate safety and reliability while preparing your home for future technology and added electrical loads.
Upgraded service can enhance reliability, reduce nuisance trips, and position your home for EV charging, HVAC additions, or smart systems—often improving resale appeal and lowering risk of costly failures.
We plan for solar readiness, generator connections with proper transfer equipment, and smart-home monitoring—ensuring the panel is a central, future-ready hub rather than a limitation.
Electrical panel replacement isn't a DIY project or a job for handymen. Our expertise includes 54 years of experience, master electrician supervision, thousands of panels replaced, problem-solving skills, code expertise, utility relationships, inspection success, and customer satisfaction.
Based in Windsor, we proudly serve homeowners across Northern Colorado. Our service areas include:
As our hometown, we have a deep understanding of the neighborhoods, from the historic homes near the lake to the new developments expanding our community. We know the local building codes inside and out.
We've been working in Fort Collins for decades, watching it grow from a college town to a major tech hub. We handle everything from wiring historic bungalows in Old Town to installing cutting-edge smart home systems in new builds
We serve the full spectrum of Loveland's needs, providing reliable electrical service for established residential areas and partnering with builders on the new construction projects shaping the city.
As Greeley continues its impressive growth, we provide complete electrical services to support its families and businesses, ensuring safe, modern power for both older homes and new communities.
We are right there alongside the rapid growth in Timnath and Johnstown, providing the high-quality electrical infrastructure new homes and businesses need to thrive.
We provide electrical services for both the historic downtown homes and the new construction communities that are shaping the future of this flourishing town.
We offer expert electrical solutions for established residential properties as well as for the needs of new families in a community that is seeing a steady stream of growth.
Known for its rapid expansion, our work in Severance ranges from maintaining the power in its older homes to installing advanced systems in the new residential developments that are helping the community thrive.
We understand that electrical projects can be unexpected expenses. That's why we've partnered with Wisetack to offer flexible financing options:
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