120/240V 7216 E Parkside Ave, Lombard, IL 60148 Insured
Circuit Active — Open 24 Hours (630) 403-6552
Lombard Electrical Repair Licensed Electrical Contractor · Village of Lombard, DuPage County, IL
Panel Upgrades · Repair · Wiring

Power, engineered to code.

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.

17 yrs
In service
2,400+
Circuits set
24/7
Emergency line
Electrician servicing a residential panel
Plate 01 — Service Panel
200A main · Lombard IL
Load calc verified
Permit #DU-22-0841
Schedule A — Services

Every circuit we touch,
labeled and tested.

Residential and light-commercial work across Lombard, Villa Park, Glen Ellyn, Elmhurst and Wheaton.

SVC-01 200A

Panel & Service Upgrades

Replace fused or overloaded panels with a labeled, load-calculated 200A service, meter to main.

Meter · main · groundingView →
SVC-02 Diag

Troubleshooting & Repair

Tripping breakers, dead outlets, flickering lights, burning smell. We trace the fault instead of guessing at it.

Thermal · megger · tone traceView →
SVC-03 14/2

Rewiring & New Circuits

Knob-and-tube and aluminum replacement, dedicated appliance circuits, basement and addition rough-in.

NEC 2023 compliantView →
SVC-04 48A

EV Charger Installation

Level 2 charger circuits sized to your vehicle and panel capacity, with load management when headroom is tight.

Hardwired or 14-50View →
SVC-05 LED

Lighting & Controls

Recessed layouts, under-cabinet, exterior and landscape lighting, dimmers and smart switching that actually works.

Layout drawings includedView →
SVC-06 ATS

Generators & Transfer Switches

Standby and portable interlock setups so the essential circuits stay live when the grid does not.

Automatic or manualView →
SVC-07 80kA

Surge Protection

Whole-home surge devices at the panel plus point-of-use protection for furnaces, well pumps and home offices.

Type 1 & Type 2View →
SVC-08 AFCI

Safety & Code Corrections

Interconnected smoke and CO alarms, GFCI and AFCI retrofits, and punch-list corrections after a failed inspection.

Alarms · GFCI · AFCIView →
SVC-09 277V

Light Commercial Service

Tenant build-outs, three-phase equipment hookups, exit and emergency lighting, and after-hours maintenance calls.

Offices · retail · shopsView →
Fault Index

Six symptoms worth a phone call.

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.

F-01

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.

F-02

Warm or discolored outlets

Heat at a receptacle or a brown scorch ring means a loose termination is arcing behind the plate. Stop using it and call.

F-03

Lights that dim on appliance start

Momentary dimming when the dryer, AC or well pump starts usually points to an undersized service or a degraded neutral.

F-04

A burning or fishy smell

Melting thermoplastic smells sweet then acrid. Shut the affected breakers off and treat it as an emergency call.

F-05

Fuse panel or 60/100A service

Older services rarely carry a modern kitchen, HVAC and EV load. We will tell you whether yours actually needs replacing.

F-06

Two-prong or ungrounded outlets

No ground means no protection for electronics and no safe path for a fault. Often correctable circuit by circuit.

Smell burning or seeing sparks? Shut the breaker off and call the 24/7 line.
(630) 403-6552
Field Record

Recent jobs, annotated.

Panel interior with labeled conductors
Job 24-118

Full service change, 1962 ranch

Fused 60A service replaced with a 200A panel, new grounding electrode system and a typed circuit directory.

200A / 40 space Lombard, IL
New circuits roughed in
Job 24-092

Basement finish rough-in

Twelve new branch circuits, AFCI protection throughout, recessed lighting laid out on a plan before a hole was cut.

12 circuits Glen Ellyn, IL
Technician testing a receptacle
Job 25-006

Intermittent fault, retail suite

Shared neutral found loose behind a junction box after two prior visits elsewhere. Repaired and tested the same day.

208V / 3Ø Elmhurst, IL
EV charger circuit installation
Job 25-033

EV charger, attached garage

48A hardwired charger on a dedicated run from a panel with limited headroom, solved with load management instead of a service upgrade.

48A / 240V Wheaton, IL
Conductors terminated in a subpanel
Job 24-207

Knob-and-tube phase-out, two-flat

Century-old wiring replaced one unit at a time so the tenant kept power, with a new subpanel feeding the upper floor.

100A sub Addison, IL
Standby generator transfer equipment
Job 24-155

Standby generator tie-in

Automatic transfer switch and a priority circuit panel covering heat, sump, refrigeration and the home office.

22kW / ATS Villa Park, IL
Sequence of Operation

Four stages, one continuous circuit.

Nothing gets energized until it is measured, tested and documented, and you can see the work at every stage.

Technician terminating conductors in a panel
Torque-verified terminations · 40 in-lb
  1. Stage 01

    Site walk & measurement

    We look at the panel, the service drop and the actual load, then photograph what matters.

  2. Stage 02

    Scope agreed in writing

    We put the work in plain language so you know exactly what is being done before anyone picks up a tool.

  3. Stage 03

    Install & terminate

    Clean conduit runs, torqued lugs, protected circuits. Work areas swept at the end of every day.

  4. Stage 04

    Test, label, hand off

    Every circuit tested and labeled, the panel directory typed, and a walkthrough of what changed.

Jonathan Gray on site in Lombard
Jonathan Gray — Owner / Master Electrician
The Shop

A small crew that answers its own phone.

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.

Founded
2008
Crew
3 trucks
Code
NEC 2023
Completed wiring installation
Detail 07 — Branch Circuit Layout

“They found a failing neutral two other electricians missed, then labeled the whole panel before they left.”

M. Reyes — Villa Park, IL
Log of Completed Calls

What the neighbors say.

4.9
Avg. rating
188
Reviews since 2008
Job 25-041 ★★★★★

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.

Marisol Reyes
Villa Park · 60181 · Mar 2026
Job 25-017 ★★★★★

Straightforward guys. Quoted 200 amp service, held the price, pulled the permit, passed inspection first try. No upsell nonsense.

Dave Kowalczyk
Lombard · 60148 · Feb 2026
Job 24-206 ★★★★★

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.

Priya Raghunathan
Glen Ellyn · 60137 · Nov 2025
Job 24-171 ★★★★☆

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.

Tom Brennan
Elmhurst · 60126 · Sep 2025
Job 24-134 ★★★★★

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.

Angela Whitfield
Wheaton · 60189 · Aug 2025
Job 23-088 ★★★★★

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.

Hector Alvarado
Addison · 60101 · Apr 2025

Reviews collected from Google, Nextdoor and post-service follow-up calls.

Coverage Map

Where we run trucks.

Dispatched out of the Parkside Avenue shop in Lombard. Outside this list, ask anyway: we take larger projects further out.

Lombard
Home base · same-day
60148
Villa Park
Same-day
60181
Glen Ellyn
Same-day
60137
Elmhurst
Next-day
60126
Wheaton
Next-day
60187 / 60189
Addison
Next-day
60101
Downers Grove
Next-day
60515
Oakbrook Terrace
Same-day
60181
Carol Stream
Scheduled
60188
Bloomingdale
Scheduled
60108
Elmwood Park
Scheduled
60707
Westmont
Scheduled
60559
Notes & Clarifications

Questions we get every week.

What happens on the first visit?

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.

Do you work on older houses?

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.

How do I know if I need a service upgrade?

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.

Do you take after-hours calls?

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.

How should I describe the problem?

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.

Which towns do you cover?

DuPage County and the near-west suburbs. The coverage map above lists the towns we run trucks through most weeks.

Work Order

Tell us what stopped working.

Send the details and we will follow up to talk through the work and schedule a look. Emergencies, call the line directly.

Shop
7216 E Parkside Ave, Lombard, IL 60148
Service van and crew
Form WO-01 Line Open

Demonstration form — not connected to a mail service.