Breakers that trip repeatedly
A breaker doing its job once is fine. One that trips weekly is reporting an overload, a shared neutral or a failing device.
Since 2008 we have rewired, repaired and upgraded homes and light-commercial buildings across DuPage County. Every job is documented, load-calculated and inspection ready.
Residential and light-commercial work across Lombard, Villa Park, Glen Ellyn, Elmhurst and Wheaton.
Replace fused or overloaded panels with a labeled, load-calculated 200A service, meter to main.
Tripping breakers, dead outlets, flickering lights, burning smell. We trace the fault instead of guessing at it.
Knob-and-tube and aluminum replacement, dedicated appliance circuits, basement and addition rough-in.
Level 2 charger circuits sized to your vehicle and panel capacity, with load management when headroom is tight.
Recessed layouts, under-cabinet, exterior and landscape lighting, dimmers and smart switching that actually works.
Standby and portable interlock setups so the essential circuits stay live when the grid does not.
Whole-home surge devices at the panel plus point-of-use protection for furnaces, well pumps and home offices.
Interconnected smoke and CO alarms, GFCI and AFCI retrofits, and punch-list corrections after a failed inspection.
Tenant build-outs, three-phase equipment hookups, exit and emergency lighting, and after-hours maintenance calls.
Most of what we repair announced itself weeks earlier. If any of the following is happening in your building, it is cheaper to diagnose now than after a conductor fails.
A breaker doing its job once is fine. One that trips weekly is reporting an overload, a shared neutral or a failing device.
Heat at a receptacle or a brown scorch ring means a loose termination is arcing behind the plate. Stop using it and call.
Momentary dimming when the dryer, AC or well pump starts usually points to an undersized service or a degraded neutral.
Melting thermoplastic smells sweet then acrid. Shut the affected breakers off and treat it as an emergency call.
Older services rarely carry a modern kitchen, HVAC and EV load. We will tell you whether yours actually needs replacing.
No ground means no protection for electronics and no safe path for a fault. Often correctable circuit by circuit.
Fused 60A service replaced with a 200A panel, new grounding electrode system and a typed circuit directory.
Twelve new branch circuits, AFCI protection throughout, recessed lighting laid out on a plan before a hole was cut.
Shared neutral found loose behind a junction box after two prior visits elsewhere. Repaired and tested the same day.
48A hardwired charger on a dedicated run from a panel with limited headroom, solved with load management instead of a service upgrade.
Century-old wiring replaced one unit at a time so the tenant kept power, with a new subpanel feeding the upper floor.
Automatic transfer switch and a priority circuit panel covering heat, sump, refrigeration and the home office.
Nothing gets energized until it is measured, tested and documented, and you can see the work at every stage.
We look at the panel, the service drop and the actual load, then photograph what matters.
We put the work in plain language so you know exactly what is being done before anyone picks up a tool.
Clean conduit runs, torqued lugs, protected circuits. Work areas swept at the end of every day.
Every circuit tested and labeled, the panel directory typed, and a walkthrough of what changed.
Jonathan Gray founded Lombard Electrical Repair in 2008 after a decade in commercial service work. The company stayed deliberately small: the person who quotes your job is the person who wires it, and every panel we leave behind has a typed directory on the inside of the door.
Today the shop runs three trucks out of Parkside Avenue with two journeymen and an apprentice. The trucks are stocked with common panels, breakers, wire and devices, so a lot of repairs get finished on the same visit rather than waiting on a supply house.
“They found a failing neutral two other electricians missed, then labeled the whole panel before they left.”
They found a failing neutral two other electricians missed, then labeled the whole panel before they left. I had lights dimming every time the dryer kicked on for almost a year. Jonathan brought a meter, spent maybe twenty minutes at the panel, and showed me exactly what was loose. Fixed the same visit.
Straightforward guys. Quoted 200 amp service, held the price, pulled the permit, passed inspection first try. No upsell nonsense.
We were finishing a basement and had three bids. Lombard was not the cheapest but they were the only ones who walked the space with the plan in hand and told us where the recessed cans should actually go instead of just agreeing with whatever I said. Crew was tidy, swept up every evening, and my kids were home the whole time. The typed directory inside the panel door is a small thing but I use it constantly.
Good work on our EV charger install and the load calculation was clearly explained. Only ding from me is scheduling slipped a few days because of a permit delay at the village. They called to tell me, which I appreciated, but I had to shuffle a day off. Charger has been flawless since.
Called at 9 on a Sunday night, half the house was dark and I was ready to panic. Someone picked up, talked me through shutting off the affected breakers, and a tech was out first thing Monday. Turned out to be a corroded splice in an attic junction box. Honest pricing for an emergency call, which is not what I expected.
Rewired the knob and tube in our 1920s two-flat in phases so our tenant never lost power for more than an afternoon. Jonathan planned the whole sequence out on paper for us. Three years in, no issues, and the paperwork made the refinance appraisal easy.
Reviews collected from Google, Nextdoor and post-service follow-up calls.
Dispatched out of the Parkside Avenue shop in Lombard. Outside this list, ask anyway: we take larger projects further out.
An electrician walks the space with you, opens the panel, takes readings and photographs what matters. You will hear what we found in plain language before any decision gets made.
Regularly. Lombard and the surrounding towns are full of 1920s two-flats and postwar ranches, so knob-and-tube, cloth wiring, aluminum branch circuits and fuse panels are routine work for us.
We run a load calculation on your actual square footage, HVAC, kitchen and vehicle charging. Sometimes the answer is a new 200A service, and sometimes it is one dedicated circuit.
The 24/7 line is answered by a person, not a call center. If it can wait until morning we will tell you that too, and talk you through shutting the affected breakers off in the meantime.
Tell us what fails, when it started, and what else is on that circuit. Photos of the panel label and the affected device speed things up considerably.
DuPage County and the near-west suburbs. The coverage map above lists the towns we run trucks through most weeks.
Send the details and we will follow up to talk through the work and schedule a look. Emergencies, call the line directly.
Jonathan or a lead tech will follow up on this request. For anything urgent, dial (630) 403-6552.