Your electrical panel is the part of your house that decides how every appliance, outlet, and light fixture gets power. It’s also the part of your house that quietly does its job for decades, until one day it doesn’t. At Mr Amp, we install, upgrade, repair, and maintain electrical panels for homes across Ogden and Northern Utah, and we see firsthand how much the demands on a modern home have outgrown what older panels were ever meant to handle.
If your panel is more than 25 or 30 years old, if it’s a brand that’s known to be unsafe, if you’re tripping breakers regularly, or if you’re planning to add anything significant like an EV charger or a hot tub, it’s worth having a licensed electrician take a look. We’ll tell you straight whether your current setup is fine, whether it needs work, or whether it’s time for a full upgrade.
Our Electrical Panel Upgrade Services
We handle every part of panel work, from a quick diagnostic on a tripping breaker to a complete service upgrade from 100 amps to 200 amps.
Panel Installation
When you need a new electrical panel, we assess the size and type that fits your home’s actual load, then install it cleanly and to current code. That covers new construction, additions, ADUs, and any situation where a fresh panel makes more sense than working around the old one.
Panel Upgrades
This is the bulk of what we do. If your panel is undersized, outdated, or showing real warning signs, we upgrade it to a higher amperage and a modern design that can keep up with how your home actually uses power. Most older Northern Utah homes were built around a 60 or 100 amp service, and that’s just not enough anymore. Between heat pumps, EV chargers, induction ranges, hot tubs, central AC, and the general number of devices a modern household runs, 200 amp service is now the typical baseline. We’ll size your upgrade around your real load and what you’re likely to add in the next 10 to 20 years.
Service Upgrades
A service upgrade goes a step further than just the panel itself. It means upgrading the meter, the service entrance wiring, and your connection to the utility, all of which can be necessary if you’re significantly increasing the home’s electrical capacity. We handle the coordination with the utility and the permits, so you’re not chasing pieces of it yourself.
Panel Repairs
Sometimes the panel itself is fine and a specific component just needs work. Faulty breakers, loose connections, damaged bus bars, and corroded terminals are all things we repair when repair is the right call. We diagnose first and make a real recommendation: fix it, or replace it.
Panel Maintenance & Inspections
Panels rarely fail without warning. Inspections, thermal scans, and basic maintenance catch issues like loose lugs, heating connections, and aging breakers before they turn into a power outage or a fire risk. If your panel hasn’t been looked at in years, an inspection is one of the smallest investments with the biggest upside.
Here’s an example of an electric panel before and after:
Signs You Need an Electrical Panel Upgrade
Most panels give warning before they fail. If any of these sound familiar, it’s worth having yours evaluated:
- Breakers that trip repeatedly, even with normal loads
- Lights that flicker or dim when major appliances kick on
- A panel that feels warm to the touch, hums, buzzes, or smells like burning plastic
- Rust, corrosion, or moisture inside or around the panel
- A fuse box instead of a modern breaker panel
- A panel that’s full, with no room left for new circuits
- A 60 or 100 amp service in a home where you’re planning major additions, an EV charger, a hot tub, or a heat pump
- A panel made by Federal Pacific (Stab-Lok), Zinsco, or Sylvania-Zinsco, which we explain more about below
If you’re seeing any of these, don’t put it off. A failing panel can go from a minor inconvenience to a serious safety problem fast.
What Size Electrical Panel Do You Need?
A common question we get is how much amperage a home actually needs. The short version:
- 100 amp service was the standard for decades and still works for smaller homes with gas appliances and no major electrical add-ons.
- 200 amp service is the modern baseline for most single-family homes in Northern Utah. It covers central AC, electric ranges, EV chargers, and the kind of overall load a current household pulls.
- 400 amp service is generally for larger homes, homes with significant electrical loads like a workshop, multiple EV chargers, or a heat pump system, or for properties planning to add an ADU.
The right answer for your home depends on what you have now, what you plan to add, and how the home is laid out. We’ll walk you through the math during the estimate.
Why Choose Mr. Amp for Your Panel Upgrade?
Panel work is one of the higher-stakes jobs in residential electrical, both for safety and for the cost of doing it wrong. Here’s what you get when you work with us:
- Licensed, insured, and local. We’re based right on 25th Street in Ogden, and our electricians are fully licensed in Utah. Every panel we touch is brought up to current code.
- Free, written estimates. We come out, assess what you have, and give you a real quote on paper before any work starts. No moving targets.
- Permits and inspections handled. Panel upgrades require permits and utility coordination. We take care of all of it.
- Quality materials. We install panels from manufacturers with strong service records and easily sourced replacement parts, including Square D, Eaton, Cutler Hammer, Siemens, and General Electric. We also service older panels of all major brands.
- Clean installs. Wiring labeled, terminations torqued correctly, panel covers flush, and the work area cleaned up. Open one of our panels in five years and it should still look the way we left it.
- Honest recommendations. If your panel is fine, we’ll tell you. If it isn’t, we’ll tell you why and what your options are. Either way, you’re not getting pressured into a sale.
Serving Ogden and Northern Utah
Mr Amp provides electrical panel services across Ogden, South Ogden, North Ogden, Pleasant View, Riverdale, Washington Terrace, Roy, Clearfield, West Haven, Hooper, Layton, Kaysville, Farmington, Bountiful, Park City, and the surrounding Northern Utah communities. If you’re not sure whether we serve your area, give us a call.
Schedule Your Free Panel Estimate
If your panel is showing warning signs, if you’re planning a project that’s going to add electrical load, or if you just want a licensed electrician to look at what you have and give you a straight answer, get in touch. Call Mr Amp at 855-330-2200 or schedule online. We’ll come out, take a look, and give you a written estimate with no pressure attached.