Burning smell at the panel?Kill the main. Then call us.
Residential-only electricians working Spokane since 2009. Flat-rate number in writing before a tool comes off the truck — panels, rewires, EV chargers, dead circuits at 2 a.m.
⚡ Wire down or arcing at the weatherhead? That's Avista first — 800-227-9187 — then us for everything past the meter.Call (509) 555-0177
38min
The only number that matters at 11 p.m.
Median arrival on emergency calls inside Spokane city limits
Six vans, nine certified electricians, one county. We don't dispatch out of Seattle and we don't take commercial jobs that tie a truck up for a week. Residential only — which is why the truck nearest your address is usually 15 minutes from finishing.
We call before we roll. You get the tech's name, the ETA, and the diagnostic fee up front — no "sometime between noon and six."
Read this before you flip the breaker again
Seven calls we take every week — and what each one usually is
A 1961-median-age housing stock means Spokane homes fail in patterns. Here's what the symptom usually means, straight, so you know whether it can wait until Tuesday.
01
"Half the house is dark but no breaker tripped."
Almost always an open neutral at the service or a loose lug in the panel. Lights brighten in one room and dim in another. This cooks electronics.
Call tonight
02
"Burning plastic smell and the panel cover is warm."
Shut the main off if you can reach it safely. Warm deadfront means a heating connection behind it. We roll on these first, day or night.
Shut main · call
03
"Breaker trips whenever the space heater and microwave run."
A 1950s South Hill kitchen on one 15A circuit. Fix is a dedicated 20A branch circuit, not a bigger breaker — a bigger breaker is how fires start.
Next-day slot
04
"Insurance won't renew until the knob-and-tube is gone."
Roughly a quarter of Spokane housing predates 1940. We do partial and full rewires with a written scope your carrier's underwriter will accept.
Scheduled work
05
"We bought an EV — will a 100A panel take a Level 2 charger?"
Sometimes, with a load calculation and a load-management device. Often it's the nudge to go 200A. We tell you which before you buy the charger.
Free load calc
06
"Bathroom and garage outlets are dead, reset does nothing."
One failed GFCI usually feeds both. Twenty-minute fix if that's all it is — we say so instead of selling you a panel.
Same day
07
"Wind pulled the wire off the side of the house."
Avista owns the drop; you own the mast, weatherhead and meter base. We rebuild the service entrance and coordinate the reconnect inspection.
Storm priority
What the six vans carry
Six things we do, and the price band before you call
100A fuse box or Stab-Lok load center out, 200A in — meter base, main disconnect, grounding electrode, intersystem bond. Most run 6–8 hours, power back same day.
$1,900–$4,200 · permit & inspection included
EV charger installation
Level 2 EVSE on a dedicated 240V circuit — ChargePoint, Tesla Wall Connector, JuiceBox. Free load calculation before we quote so you know if the panel holds.
$650–$1,850 · 40A or 60A circuit
Wiring & rewiring
Knob-and-tube remediation, aluminum branch-circuit pigtailing with AlumiConn, new dedicated circuits, ADU and detached-garage feeders. Drop cloths, shoe covers, shop-vac.
Partial from $2,400 · full rewire quoted on site
Lighting installation
Recessed retrofit trims, under-cabinet runs, exterior and landscape, ceiling fans and bath exhaust fans vented to the outside — not into your attic.
$165 first fixture · $85 each after
Troubleshooting & repair
Open neutrals, shared neutrals, series arcs, backstabbed devices, scorched receptacles. Thermal camera and clamp meter on every diagnostic call.
$89 diagnostic · credited to the repair
Generator hookups
Standby sets and portable interlocks with a proper transfer switch. Wet-snow outage season is November to February — book the install in September.
Interlock from $780 · standby $2,600+
Every price above is a real band from jobs we ran in Spokane County last year, not a national average. Your number is written, flat, and signed before we start.
Browne's Addition · 60A fuse panel replaced in one day
The panels our inspectors flag hardest
Federal Pacific, Zinsco, Challenger: the three names we replace most
These aren't theoretical fire risks. Breakers in these load centers can fail to trip under fault, and insurers in Spokane County increasingly won't write a policy over them. If your deadfront says one of those three names, we'll photograph it and give you a written replacement quote the same visit.
We pull the permit and meet the inspector — City of Spokane inside limits, L&I at 901 N. Monroe for unincorporated county.
Avista meter-pull coordination scheduled before we touch the service entrance.
Hand-labeled circuit directory on every panel we leave behind. Every one.
Whole-home Type 2 surge device included free with any full panel replacement.
How a call actually runs
Four steps, no mystery, no sitting home all day
1
You call, a person answers
Not a call center in another state. We ask three questions and tell you whether it's tonight or Tuesday.
2
We call before we roll
Tech's name, truck number, and a 60-minute arrival window texted to your phone.
3
Diagnose, then price it
$89 diagnostic, credited to the repair. Flat-rate written quote signed before any work starts.
4
Permit, inspect, clean up
We schedule the inspector, meet them on site, shop-vac the space, and email you the photos.
Recent work · Spokane County
Three jobs from this quarter, photographed at handoff
Logan · storm-torn mast rebuilt
Wet snow took the drop off a 1948 two-story. New mast, weatherhead and meter base, Avista reconnect inside 26 hours.
West Central · partial rewire
Knob-and-tube pulled from 11 circuits so the homeowner's carrier would renew. Nine days, family stayed in the house.
Spokane Valley · open neutral
Half-dark house, three techs from another shop had missed it. Found at the meter base in 40 minutes.
Verbatim, from Google
What people wrote after the truck pulled away
“Called at 9:40 on a Sunday night about a hot breaker. Someone actually picked up, and Dave was in my basement by 10:20. No after-hours markup, which I did not expect.”
— Karen M., Manito
“Two other shops quoted a full panel. Meridian found a loose lug, fixed it for the diagnostic fee plus $140, and told me the panel had eight good years left.”
— Tomas R., Five Mile Prairie
“They pulled the permit, met the city inspector at 8 a.m., and emailed me the signed card the same afternoon. I never had to take a day off work.”
— Alicia D., Rockwood
Snow-load season: Nov–Feb
Where the six vans run
Spokane proper, the Valley, and 30 minutes out
Pre-1940 wiring on the north side and in Browne's Addition. Undersized 100A services and aluminum branch circuits across the 1970s Valley stock. Basalt trenching on the South Hill that other shops quote and then walk away from. We know which one your address is before we arrive.
Browne's Addition
South Hill
Manito
Rockwood
Cliff/Cannon
West Central
Hillyard
Logan
Emerson/Garfield
Five Mile Prairie
Indian Trail
Spokane Valley
Liberty Lake
Millwood
Cheney
Airway Heights
Deer Park
Medical Lake
Licensed, bonded and insured — WA electrical contractor MERIDEL812QC, $4,000 L&I surety bond, workers' comp on all nine techs, $2M general liability. Zero L&I policy violations on record.
Emergency crews run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including Christmas. Scheduled work books 2–4 days out. Either way you talk to a Spokane electrician, not a script.
Browne's Addition · 60A fuse panel replaced in one day
Snow-load season: Nov–Feb