Expert Electrician Services in New Hampshire

New Hampshire loses power the same way every winter: ice loads a branch until it lands on the line. The December 2008 storm kept hundreds of thousands of homes dark, some for more than a week. The fix is decided before the storm, not during it: a written list of what must stay on, a generator sized to that list, and an automatic transfer switch so the power returns without anyone trudging outside. Portables can run the fridge and a few lights, but hardwired loads like a well pump or furnace need a standby unit.

City water customers lose pressure in an outage, but rural homes lose water entirely: the well pump stops, the septic pump stops, and the house cannot flush. A generator has to carry these pumps, and that means knowing their starting draw — a well pump can pull several times its running current when it kicks on. We size backup power from the actual loads on your panel, then wire the transfer switch so the pump circuits are protected first.

A panel installed when the house had a stove and a dryer now feeds heat pumps, an EV charger, and a hot tub. The state environmental agency counts tens of thousands of heat pumps installed in New Hampshire homes and businesses, and each one wants a dedicated circuit. The answer starts with a load calculation, not a guess: sometimes a subpanel solves it, sometimes the service needs to grow to 200 amps, and sometimes the charger can share a circuit with load management.

Some New Hampshire homes still carry the wiring they were born with: ceramic knobs, bare splices wrapped in tape, and no ground wire anywhere. The wire itself was fine for 1910, but blown-in insulation traps its heat, and many insurers now refuse to write policies on it. Replacement does not require gutting the house. We fish new wire through plaster walls and old trim with small, clean openings, and we bring grounding and modern protection to every circuit we touch.

Second homes around the Lakes Region and the White Mountains often sit empty through the harshest months, and a tripped breaker in February can mean burst pipes by March. A winter readiness check covers the panel, the heat source, the sump pump, and the smoke and CO detectors, and a monitored setup can alert you when the temperature drops inside. Small fixes in October beat emergency calls in February.

When the frost lets go, New Hampshire basements take on water, and the sump pump runs more in April than all winter. A pump on a shared circuit can trip a breaker and flood the floor, and a pump with no backup battery quits exactly when the storm takes the power. We put sump pumps on dedicated GFCI-protected circuits and add battery backup so the pump keeps working through the outage that caused the problem.