Licensed electricians serving Elmhurst homes and businesses — EV chargers, panel upgrades, standby generators, and everyday electrical repairs.
If you own a home near Salt Creek, you already know the electrical question that matters most in Elmhurst: what happens to the sump pump when the power goes out during the storm that’s filling the basement. It’s the wrong moment to find out the pump shares a circuit with half the laundry room, or that there’s no backup at all.
Dedicated sump circuits, battery backup, and standby generators are a big part of what we do here — along with the panel upgrades that come with Elmhurst’s steady run of teardowns and additions. Our licensed electricians pull the City of Elmhurst permit, coordinate with ComEd, and label the panel before we leave. Free estimates, upfront pricing, and a 5-year workmanship warranty.
Outlets, switches, circuits, lighting, and troubleshooting anywhere in the house.
Offices, retail, and warehouses — service calls, lighting, and buildouts.
Level 2 home chargers wired, permitted, and inspected — usually in one visit.
Whole-home standby generators with automatic transfer switches, sized for your house.
100-amp to 200-amp service upgrades for homes running out of breakers.
Smart switches, doorbells, network runs, and structured cabling.
Same crew, same phone number as before — now 100% electrical. Read our Google reviews or meet the team.
The City of Elmhurst, through its Community Development Department — permits and inspections both run through the city rather than DuPage County. We file the permit, meet the inspector on site, and coordinate with ComEd when the service itself is being upgraded.
Yes, and a lot of Elmhurst basements aren’t wired that way. A pump sharing a circuit with a freezer, a workshop outlet, or laundry equipment can trip the breaker at the exact moment you need it running, and nobody finds out until the water’s already rising. A dedicated circuit is a straightforward job in most basements. There’s a wrinkle worth knowing: current code generally calls for GFCI protection in unfinished basements, and some older pumps nuisance-trip on GFCI, so the pump and the protection have to be matched properly rather than one being sacrificed for the other.
Two real options. A battery backup system sits alongside the primary pump and runs it for a number of hours on its own — cheaper, covers the common case, but finite. A standby generator on an automatic transfer switch restarts the whole house within about a minute of an outage and runs as long as there’s gas, so the pump, the furnace and the fridge all stay up. Which one makes sense depends on how often your street loses power and how much water you’re moving. We’ll price both rather than steer you.
Tell us what’s going on and we’ll get you a free, no-obligation estimate.
