SoFlo Electrical Co. works the service, the branch circuits, and the new loads

SoFlo Electrical Co. is who you call when the panel is packed, a breaker will not reset, or a new load will not fit the service that came with the house. That load is usually a Level 2 charger, a standby generator, a kitchen, or another condenser hanging off a 100-amp drop that was never meant to carry it.

We work Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, and St. Lucie, Miami through Port St. Lucie, not a single city and not a pin on a map. Coastal CBS ranchers and waterfront meter cans in Fort Lauderdale, newer subdivisions and remodel work in Port St. Lucie, and the same service work in between. Reach SoFlo Electrical Co. at (954) 466-4917 or service@sofloelectricalco.com. We do not publish a storefront; the work is at your meter and panel.

Behind the deadfront: 100-amp service and aluminum branch circuits

A lot of South Florida housing still runs on the electrical system that was legal the year it was built: 60- and 100-amp services, fuse boxes, first-generation breaker panels with no spare slots. Mid-1960s into early-1970s houses often have aluminum branch-circuit wiring.

Aluminum was used here. The terminations oxidize, they loosen, they heat. What you notice is flicker, a warm switch plate, or a breaker that now trips on a circuit that used to hold. We do not talk anyone into a whole-house rewire on sight. We open the panel, we look at the devices, and we say whether the right fix is device-by-device repair, a targeted circuit replacement, or a rewire because the insulation and the panel are both finished.

Salt air is the other failure on this coast. Meter cans rust through, masts pit, lugs corrode, outdoor disconnects seize. Hazard-brand panels still turn up in the same housing stock; when the breakers may not trip, replacement is a safety job, not a capacity upgrade.

When a panel swap is not a service upgrade

Panel upgrades sit at the center of what SoFlo Electrical Co. does, and two jobs get sold under that name. A like-for-like box swap keeps the same amperage: new panel, failed breakers gone, cover on, permit pulled. A 100-amp to 200-amp service change is a different job, new panel, often a new meter and mast, new service conductors, grounding that matches current code, inspection, and a utility disconnect/reconnect so the drop actually changes.

A “200-amp panel” on a 100-amp drop is still a 100-amp house. If you are adding a 50-amp EV circuit, a heat-pump water heater, and a spa, the service has to move. We size it on site and lock the number before the cover comes off. Typical residential ranges live on our panel upgrade cost page; your price is the quote after we see the mast, the meter, and the load. We also convert fuse boxes, add subpanels for garages and additions, and correct grounding when the original install never had a real electrode system.

EV chargers and standby generators on one load calculation

An EV charger is a continuous 40- to 50-amp load. A standby generator is a transfer-switch and load-calculation problem. Both go wrong when someone treats them as a weekend add-on to a full panel.

We install Level 2 home chargers and commercial stations. The first question is whether the existing service has spare capacity after a real load calculation. If it does, we run a dedicated 240-volt circuit, pull the permit, and set the unit, hardwired or on a NEMA 14-50, depending on the equipment. If it does not, we do the service upgrade and the charger in one visit.

Generator work is the same math plus storm season. We size the set to the loads that actually matter: the whole house, or air conditioning, refrigeration, and a handful of circuits. Pad, automatic transfer switch, panel integration, electrical permit, inspection. Gas piping is coordinated, not guessed at from the electrical side. For smaller jobs we install portable inlets and interlock kits so a temporary set cannot backfeed the utility through a dryer outlet.

Five counties from Miami-Dade to St. Lucie

Miami-Dade and Broward still have the older CBS stock, the aluminum-era branch circuits, and the waterfront corrosion. Palm Beach brings larger services and more charger installs. Martin and St. Lucie are growth, new construction, remodels, and houses that look new but still need a load calc because the builder left a 200-amp panel packed with tandem breakers and no room for the car.

Residential, commercial, and industrial sit on the same schedule, three-phase, site lighting, machinery hookups. Emergencies, burning smell, sparking, a main that will not reset, storm-damaged service, are 24/7. If the whole street is dark, that is the utility. If your neighbors have lights and you do not, that is on your side of the meter.

If you found soflo-electric.com, that is not this company

South Florida has more than one company with “SoFlo” and “electric” in the name. We are SoFlo Electrical Co. You reach us at (954) 466-4917 or service@sofloelectricalco.com. soflo-electric.com is a different company. If you booked them, you did not book us. Say SoFlo Electrical Co. and (954) 466-4917 on the call so the tickets do not get crossed.

After you call (954) 466-4917

Call (954) 466-4917. For work that can wait until morning, email service@sofloelectricalco.com. Give us the city and what is happening: tripping, no power, EV, generator, remodel. We schedule same day when we can, and around the clock when it is unsafe to wait. You get a diagnosis and a locked-in number before we kill the main. Permits and utility coordination are part of service changes, charger installs, and generators.

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