Meter bases · masts · upgrades
Electric Service
Service upgrades, meter bases, meter-mains and service masts for homes, shops and barns across the Portland metro. We handle the permit and work with PGE, Pacific Power and Canby Utility to get your power back on.
What makes up your electric service
Everything between the utility’s wires and your breaker panel. We install and replace every piece of it.
Service drop or lateral
The utility’s wires that bring power to your home, either overhead from the pole or buried underground.
Mast & weatherhead
The pipe on the roof that holds the overhead wires and carries them down to the meter. Falling limbs and heavy snow can bend or pull it loose.
Meter base
The socket your utility’s meter plugs into. Older bases rust, loosen and can burn at the jaws, and they usually get replaced with a service upgrade.
Main disconnect
The main breaker shuts off the whole house. With a meter-main combination it sits outside next to the meter, so power can be shut off without going indoors.
When you need service work
- Going from 60- or 100-amp service to 200 amps
- Adding an EV charger, heat pump, hot tub, shop or ADU
- A mast bent or pulled loose by a tree limb or storm
- A rusted, loose or burned meter base
- Moving overhead wires underground
- Your utility or an inspector asked for a correction
- New construction, barns and outbuildings
Service work we do
- 100- and 200-amp service upgrades
- Meter base replacement
- Meter-main combinations with an outdoor emergency disconnect
- Service mast and weatherhead replacement
- Overhead to underground conversions
- New services for shops, barns, pole buildings and ADUs
- Multi-meter packs for apartments and commercial services
- Storm and tree damage repair
- Coordination with PGE, Pacific Power and Canby Utility
- Permits and inspections handled for you
- Generator inlets and interlocks at the service
Meter bases & services we've installed
How a service upgrade works
01
Site visit & load check
We look at your current service and what you plan to add, then quote the right size for the job.
02
Permit & utility scheduling
We pull the electrical permit and schedule the disconnect and reconnect with your utility.
03
Install day
Power is off while we replace the mast, meter base and main. We’ll tell you ahead of time how long to plan for.
04
Inspection & power back on
Once the work passes inspection, the utility sets the meter and your power is back on.
Storm or tree damage
Mast bent or wires pulled off the house?
Stay well away from any downed wires and call your utility first. Then call us. We repair the mast, meter base and service entrance so the utility can restore your power.
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