Expert Electrician Services in Athens, Tennessee

Spring in the Tennessee Valley means thunderstorms, and tornado season means trees. When a limb takes out your overhead service drop — or the whole street goes dark — the repair starts with AUB's line and ends at your meter base. We coordinate the utility side, then repair or replace your service entrance, mast, and panel on the house side, so you're not waiting on two separate schedules.

Athens has whole neighborhoods of 1960s and 70s brick ranches still running on the 100-amp panels they were built with — back when central air was the only big load. Add an EV charger, a heat pump, or a home office, and the numbers stop working. The original panels in these homes are often Pushmatic or early breaker types with no main breaker and no room for a single new circuit — a full service upgrade replaces the bottleneck and the hazard in one job. We upgrade these homes to 200-amp service with room to spare, properly grounded and labeled.

McMinn County is farm and acreage country, and the electrical on rural properties is its own trade: barns with extension-cord wiring, shops fed by undersized buried cable, outbuildings with no grounding to speak of. We wire barns, workshops, and detached garages properly — dedicated panels, code-correct grounding, and circuits that handle real equipment.

The older homes near downtown Athens — brick cottages, bungalows, and houses that have been added onto three times — often still run two-wire, ungrounded circuits with a panel that's been Frankensteined through the decades. Aluminum branch wiring from the 60s and 70s shows up too. We rewire these houses room by room or all at once, with proper grounding and modern capacity.

East Tennessee summers are hot, humid, and long, and central air runs hard from May through September. A compressor pulling big inrush current on a tired panel dims the lights, trips breakers, and shortens the life of everything downstream. We evaluate the AC circuit honestly, upgrade the service or panel when it's the bottleneck, and stop the summer tripping cycle.

The Valley gets dramatic lightning, and a strike doesn't have to hit your house to wreck your electronics — a nearby hit travels the utility lines and the ground itself. Whole-home surge protection at the panel, plus point-of-use devices for the sensitive gear, is the defense that actually works. It won't stop a direct strike — nothing short of lightning rods does — but it handles everything storms throw at the lines, which is the far more common problem. We install both, sized for how storms move through McMinn County.