Electrician Lexington, SC

Our experienced electricians handle the full range of residential electrical work in Lexington. Whether your panel is undersized for today's load demands, your outlets are ungrounded, or you're adding an EV charger to your garage, we have the training and equipment to get it done right. Here's what we work on:

• Electrical panel upgrades (100A to 200A and above)
• Circuit breaker replacement
• Whole-home electrical inspections
• Electrical wiring and home wiring updates
• Outlet installation, including GFCI and 240V outlets
• Lighting installation and ceiling fan installation
• EV charger installation (Level 2 home charging stations)
• Generator installation and backup generator systems
• Surge protection and whole-house surge protectors
• Emergency electrical services

Every job follows NEC standards and South Carolina code requirements enforced by the SC Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation (LLR). Our electricians are highly trained and carry the tools to complete most jobs in a single visit.

An occasional breaker trip is often a simple circuit overload. You can reset it once to see if it holds, but repeated tripping means the circuit is drawing more power than safe operation allows, and poses a real fire threat. Multi-room flickering lights generally point to main breaker issues or loose panel wiring. Scorched outlets, burning smells, or warm switches are urgent safety hazards, and you should contact our Lexington electricians immediately instead of monitoring them.

Most Lexington homes built before the mid-1990s have 100-amp panels, which were standard at the time. Today's homes run HVAC systems, EV chargers, electric ranges, and multiple home offices simultaneously. A 100-amp service struggles to keep up. If your breakers trip frequently, you're adding a major appliance, or you're installing a Level 2 EV charger (which draws 30 to 50 amps on its own), a 200-amp panel upgrade is worth evaluating. We inspect the panel, assess the load, and give you a clear picture of what's needed and why.

Yes. We install Level 2 home EV charging stations throughout Lexington and the surrounding area. Most installations require a dedicated 50-amp circuit run from your panel to the garage or driveway location. We assess your panel capacity, run the circuit, install the charger, and test the connection before we leave. If your panel needs an upgrade to support the load, we handle that too.

Lexington sits in one of the most lightning-active regions of the eastern US. The Midlands sees dozens of severe storms each year, and each one is a real threat to your electrical system. A nearby strike doesn't need to hit your home directly to cause damage. Voltage spikes travel through power lines and into your panel within milliseconds, and anything connected to an outlet at that moment is at risk. Surge protectors at individual outlets help, but a whole-house surge protection device installed at your panel is the only way to defend every circuit at once. The SC Office of Resilience reports that lightning and electrical surge damage are among the top causes of property loss for South Carolina homeowners. If your home took a hit during a recent storm and you're noticing tripped breakers, flickering lights, or appliances behaving strangely, get the system checked before assuming everything is fine.

Most work beyond basic outlet or switch replacements requires a permit through either the Town of Lexington Planning and Building Department or the County of Lexington Community Development Department, depending on where you live. That includes panel upgrades, new circuit installations, wiring updates, and generator hookups. Skipping permits isn't a loophole. It's a liability. If you sell your home and an inspector finds unpermitted electrical work, you'll either need to retroactively permit it, tear it out, or take a hit on the sale price. Insurance claims tied to electrical fires are also denied in some cases when the work wasn't properly permitted and inspected. We pull all required permits on your behalf and coordinate the inspection schedule so you don't have to manage that process. When the job is done, you'll have documentation showing the work passed inspection, which protects you long after we leave.

A lot of Lexington's established neighborhoods, including parts of Lake Murray and the older subdivisions near downtown, were built in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of that era's homes still have aluminum branch circuit wiring, which expands and contracts at a different rate than the outlets and switches it connects to. Over time, that movement loosens connections and creates heat at the contact points. Other red flags include two-prong ungrounded outlets throughout the house, a fuse box instead of a breaker panel, or wiring with cloth insulation visible in the attic or crawl space. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that older aluminum wiring in homes makes them 55 times more likely to experience a fire hazard connection than homes with copper wiring. An electrical inspection gives you a clear picture of what's in your walls and what, if anything, needs to change.

An electrical inspection is a full evaluation of your home's wiring, panel, grounding system, outlets, and connected devices. Our electricians work through the system room by room, checking for code violations, signs of wear, overloaded circuits, and anything that doesn't meet current NEC standards. It's worth scheduling one if you've bought a home built before 2000, noticed recurring breaker trips, added major appliances recently, or gone years without anyone looking at the system. Lexington's clay-heavy soil shifts seasonally, and that movement stresses conduit and junction boxes in crawl spaces over time. After a storm season, it's also worth confirming your grounding and bonding connections held up. An inspection takes a few hours and gives you a written record of the system's condition, which is useful for insurance documentation and future sale disclosures.

Mr. Electric of Columbia serves Lexington and a broad stretch of the Midlands region. Our service area includes Columbia, West Columbia, Cayce, Irmo, Chapin, Springdale, Pine Ridge, Little Mountain, Newberry, and surrounding communities.

Scheduling an appointment with Mr. Electric of Columbia is straightforward. Call our office directly or schedule your appointment online to choose a time that works for you. We serve Lexington and the surrounding Midlands communities, and our electricians arrive in fully stocked service vehicles ready to assess and complete most jobs in a single visit. When you book, have a brief description of the issue ready. That helps us send the right specialist and estimate the time needed.