ELECTRICIAN IN SPRING HILL, FL
Faulkner Electric is based in Spring Hill. Our shop is on Toms Farm Court, which means when you call us about a dead outlet or a breaker that will not stay set, you are not waiting on someone driving up from Tampa or over from Pinellas. We are a family-owned business working in the town we live in, and we are a Florida State Certified Electrical Contractor, license EC13006813.
That matters more here than it would in a newer part of the state, because of how Spring Hill was built.
Spring Hill homes have a specific electrical age problem
Much of Spring Hill went up from the late 1960s through the 1980s as the area was developed, and a great deal of that housing stock is still standing and still lived in. Electrically, that puts a large number of local homes in exactly the window where the equipment installed at the time has aged past its service life.
The most common thing we find is the panel. If your home dates from that period, there is a reasonable chance it was fitted with a Federal Pacific Electric Stab-Lok, a Zinsco, or a Pushmatic panel. These have a documented history of breakers that fail to trip when they should, which is the one job a breaker exists to do. We are not going to tell you over a web page that your panel is dangerous, because we have not seen it. But we will tell you that these three names are worth identifying, and that opening the panel door and reading the label costs you nothing. If you find one of those names, call your homeowner's insurance carrier and then call us.
The second thing we find is service capacity. A 100-amp service was the standard for decades and is still adequate for a smaller older home with modest demands. It is not adequate once you add a second air handler, a pool pump, a workshop, or a car that charges in the garage. If your breakers trip when two appliances run at once, that is usually not a faulty breaker. That is the service telling you it is full.
If either of those sounds like your house, the detail is on our page about electrical panel upgrades.
Wells, pumps and the circuits that feed them
Plenty of homes around Spring Hill and out along the Hernando-Pasco line draw their water from a private well rather than a municipal line. That puts a well pump on a dedicated circuit, and a well pump is a motor load - it pulls hard on startup and it does not forgive a marginal connection. When a well pump circuit has been in service for decades, the failure usually shows up as nuisance tripping or as a pump that hesitates before it catches, not as a dramatic fault.
If you are on a well, your water is an electrical appliance. Worth remembering before storm season rather than during it.
Storms, surge and staying powered
We are on the Gulf side of Florida, and that shapes the two requests we get most in the second half of every year.
The first is surge. A lightning strike does not have to hit your house to cost you equipment - a nearby strike or a utility switching event can put a spike on the line that takes out a condenser, a well pump controller, or every piece of electronics on a circuit. Point-of-use strips protect what is plugged into them and nothing else. The hardwired approach is covered on our whole-home surge protection page.
The second is outages. If you have sat through a multi-day outage here, you already know whether a generator is something you want, and the honest answer depends on your well, your medical equipment, and how long you are willing to wait on a utility crew. We install and tie in whole-home generators, including the transfer equipment that makes them safe to run.
Newer loads on older houses
The newest work we do is often in the oldest houses. An EV charger installation is a straightforward job in a home with panel capacity to spare and a much bigger conversation in a 1970s house on a full 100-amp service. Same for a hot tub, a mini-split, or a detached garage with a subpanel. We would rather tell you what the panel can carry before you buy the equipment than after.
Working with us
Call 727-842-4920. We will tell you what we find, what it means, and what your options are, and we will put it in writing. We are licensed as a Florida State Certified Electrical Contractor under EC13006813, we are insured, and we do not quote prices over the internet because we have not seen your house yet.
Faulkner Electric, Spring Hill, FL. Family owned, locally based, and in the phone book for a reason.
Are you actually based in Spring Hill, or do you just service it?
Based here. Our shop address is 17234 Toms Farm Ct., Spring Hill, FL 34610, and we are a family-owned business working in the town we live in.
My house is from the 1970s. What should I be worried about electrically?
Two things, in order. First, the panel - Federal Pacific Stab-Lok, Zinsco and Pushmatic panels were common in that era and have a documented history of breakers failing to trip. Open the panel door and read the label. Second, service capacity: a 100-amp service that was fine in 1978 is usually full once a modern household plugs into it.
Do you handle well pump circuits?
Yes. A well pump is a dedicated motor load, and on older circuits the trouble normally shows up as nuisance tripping or a pump that hesitates on startup rather than as an outright failure.
Can you quote me over the phone?
We can tell you how we would approach the job and what usually drives the cost, but we will not put a number on it before we have seen the work. Too many variables sit behind a panel door.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes - Florida State Certified Electrical Contractor, license EC13006813, and insured. The license number is on every page of this site and on every document we hand you.
