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ELECTRICAL REPAIR · SOUTH FLORIDA

Residential & Commercial Electrical Repair

Dead outlets, flickering lights, tripping breakers, burnt receptacles, aluminum-wiring pigtails — real diagnosis, not parts-swap.

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Electrical Repair in Broward & Palm Beach

Most electrical repairs are diagnosis problems more than they are wiring problems. Anyone can swap an outlet. The value is figuring out why the outlet failed — and whether the whole circuit needs attention. We show up with a real diagnostic kit (megger, thermal camera, ground-fault tracer) and we don't leave until we can explain what happened and what to watch for.

What's included

  • Dead outlet + switch diagnosis and replacement
  • Flickering-light root-cause analysis (loose neutral, failed dimmer, bad transformer)
  • Tripping breaker diagnosis (short, ground fault, overload, failed breaker)
  • Burnt or arced receptacle replacement + circuit inspection
  • Aluminum wiring pigtail conversion to copper (COPALUM approved)
  • Doorbell, thermostat, and smoke-detector wiring repair
  • GFCI + AFCI diagnosis and replacement to current code

When to call us

You smell burning from an outlet

This is a same-day call. Kill the breaker. Don't use the outlet. We'll come out and find whether it's the outlet, the wiring behind it, or the breaker feeding it.

Lights flicker when the AC starts

Usually a loose neutral at the main lug or a failing service conductor. Not just annoying — it can degrade motors and electronics over time.

A breaker keeps tripping and you don't know why

It's telling you something. We use an amp clamp and a thermal camera to find whether it's an overload, a ground fault, or a failing breaker itself.

You have aluminum wiring

Not automatically dangerous, but connections corrode over time and cause overheating. We do COPALUM-approved pigtail conversions that resolve the insurance issue too.

Common questions

Do you charge a diagnostic fee?

Yes — a modest trip-and-diagnose fee that we credit toward the repair if you have us do the work. That way we're not incentivized to find fake problems, and you're not paying for a guess.

Can you fix work another electrician did wrong?

Yes, all the time. Bring us in, we'll look, we'll tell you what needs to change, and we won't badmouth the previous guy in front of you. Then we fix it and warranty our part.

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24/7 Emergency Electrician

Power out, breakers tripping, burning smell, AC dead. Live answer any hour.

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Residential Electrical

Panel work, rewires, lighting, outlets, fans, appliance circuits.

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Commercial Electrical

Offices, retail, warehouses, restaurants — design, install, maintain.

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New Construction Wiring

Ground-up residential + light commercial. GC coordination end-to-end.

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Electric Panel Installation

200A/400A upgrades. FPL disconnect and reconnect handled.

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Generator Installation

Whole-home + portable installs. Generac, Kohler certified. Storm-ready.

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Electrical Repair for Broward & Palm Beach Homes and Businesses

Edwin's Electric LLC diagnoses the root cause — not just the symptom — so the same problem doesn't come back six months later.

Why South Florida Electrical Repairs Have Their Own Wrinkles

Homes and commercial buildings across Broward and Palm Beach counties face a set of conditions that accelerate electrical wear faster than most of the country. Coastal humidity and salt air corrode terminations inside panels, receptacles, and junction boxes — connections that look fine on the surface can be oxidized enough to arc or overheat. That's why a visual swap of an outlet sometimes misses the actual failure point.

Older neighborhoods throughout unincorporated Broward — and stretches of Delray Beach and Boynton Beach — still carry aluminum branch wiring installed during the 1960s and 70s building booms. Aluminum expands and contracts at a different rate than the copper devices it connects to, and those micro-movements loosen terminations over decades. Insurers in this market increasingly flag aluminum wiring during policy renewals, so COPALUM-approved pigtail conversions do double duty: they resolve the fire-risk concern and often satisfy the underwriter at the same time.

Florida's permit requirements also matter here. Broward County and the municipalities within Palm Beach County each maintain their own inspection schedules, and certain repair scopes — panel work, service upgrades, and some AFCI/GFCI retrofit projects — require a pulled permit and a final inspection sign-off. Work done without permits can surface as a title problem when a property sells. Edwin's Electric pulls permits where the code requires them, which protects you at closing as much as it protects you today.

How to Think About What an Electrical Repair Actually Costs

Electrical repair pricing in South Florida is driven by three things: what it takes to find the fault, what it takes to correct it, and whether the correction requires a permit and inspection. A straightforward GFCI replacement is a short job. A flickering-light complaint that traces back to a loose neutral at the main lug — discovered only after ruling out the fixture, the dimmer, and the branch circuit — is a longer one, and the diagnostic work is the bulk of the value.

The diagnostic fee Edwin's Electric charges is credited toward the repair if you proceed — a structure that keeps the incentive aligned with actually finding the problem rather than selling parts. For larger repairs involving panel connections or service conductors, the permit and inspection fees set by the local authority are a fixed cost of doing the work correctly; they're not padding, and skipping them creates risk that outlasts the repair itself.

If you're comparing estimates, the question worth asking any electrician is: what happens if you open the wall and find something beyond what you quoted? A contractor who can answer that clearly — in writing — before work starts is one who has thought through the scope. That conversation is part of every estimate Edwin's Electric provides.

Common questions

One breaker keeps tripping even after I reset it — do I need a new breaker or is something else wrong?
A repeatedly tripping breaker is a symptom, not a diagnosis. The breaker could be failing internally, the circuit could be overloaded by too many devices, or there could be a ground fault or short somewhere in the wiring or a connected appliance. An amp clamp and thermal camera check will distinguish between those causes before anything gets replaced — swapping the breaker without knowing why it's tripping just moves the problem.
Can I get an estimate for electrical repair without committing to the work?
Yes. Edwin's Electric charges a trip-and-diagnose fee to come out, identify the fault, and explain what's needed. That fee is credited toward the repair if you go ahead. You'll get a clear scope before any work starts, so you're deciding based on actual findings — not a rough guess made over the phone.
My house has aluminum wiring. Is that an emergency, or something I can schedule when it's convenient?
Aluminum wiring isn't an automatic emergency, but it's not something to ignore indefinitely either. The risk increases as connections age and loosen, and many South Florida insurers now require documentation of remediation before they'll bind or renew a policy. Scheduling a walkthrough to assess the termination condition is the right next step — it tells you whether you're looking at isolated spots or a broader pigtail project, and it gives you the information your insurer is likely to ask for.

Get Your Electrical Problem Diagnosed Correctly

Describe what you're seeing and we'll tell you what it likely points to — then schedule a visit to confirm it.

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