Electrical Installation
Local Electrical Installation Service in Atlanta
Need more power than your house has now? Our electrical installation service in Atlanta adds the panels, circuits and outlets to carry it.
Did you know?
In November 1896, Niagara Falls started lighting a city about 25 miles away. Power from the falls reached Buffalo, New York, over an 11,000-volt line, and it proved electricity didn’t have to be made right next door to the people using it.
Questions & Answers
FAQs About Electrical Installation Service in Atlanta
Panels, permits, rewiring and what to plan before the walls close up.
Usually, yes, though the panel is only part of the job. Going to 200 amps often means a new meter base and service entrance cable, and Georgia Power has to disconnect and reconnect you. Before any of that, we run a load calculation, which adds up what your home uses. Sometimes a subpanel covers it.
Look for two-prong outlets all over the house, cloth-covered wire, a fuse box and breakers that trip under normal use. Atlanta’s prewar homes, like the bungalows in Virginia-Highland, were wired long before anyone had a microwave or a home office. In houses with plaster walls, we fish new wire through room by room to keep the patching small. Cam’s Electric pulls the permit, and the work gets inspected.
Most jobs with new wiring get two. The rough-in inspection happens while the walls are open, so the inspector can see the wire, boxes, grounding and bonding. The final inspection comes once the outlets, switches and fixtures are in. Both check the work against the 2023 National Electrical Code, which Georgia enforces. On a remodel, the rough-in has to happen before drywall, so we schedule it around your contractor.
A subpanel adds breaker space off the panel you already have. It works when the house has enough power coming in but the panel’s out of slots. A panel upgrade replaces the main breaker panel, and a service upgrade raises how much power comes into the house. A load calculation tells us which one you need.
You need one any time an appliance has to have the whole circuit to itself. Ranges, dryers, water heaters, EV chargers, freezers and bigger shop tools all call for one, so they aren’t competing with your lights and outlets. We size the breaker and wire to the appliance, using NM-B cable inside walls or THHN wire in conduit where it’s exposed. Cam’s Electric can tell you whether your panel has room for it.
It makes the most sense where the power goes out often, and Atlanta’s trees hang over a lot of power lines. Storms on July 29, 2026 left more than 60,000 customers without power in north Fulton and DeKalb. A battery can cover the basics, like the fridge, the lights and the internet, or more of the house. Cam’s Electric can size it to the circuits you care about.
Both are accepted fixes. A GFCI outlet or breaker protects you from shock, but it doesn’t give your electronics a true ground. For a home office or a TV wall, a new ground wire is the better fix, and it’s easiest when the walls are already open.
Bring one in during planning, before the framing’s finished. A remodel adds circuits for outlets, lighting and appliances, and your panel has to have room for them. The wiring also has to be inspected before drywall, so the electrician’s schedule needs to fit your contractor’s. Cam grew up working beside his dad, a home remodeler, so a job site is familiar ground.
It usually runs underground in conduit, with weatherproof boxes and shock protection at the far end. Trenching depth depends on the wiring method, and the route has to miss tree roots and other buried lines. Atlanta’s tree ordinance protects certain trees, so we plan it before anyone digs. If you’ll run tools or a heater out there, a small panel in the garage makes sense.
In Atlanta’s humidity, yes. A fan that’s sized for the room pulls the steam out before it settles on the walls and ceiling. It should vent outdoors, never into the attic. Cam’s Electric installs them during a remodel or as a job of their own.
