I need to upgrade my system from 60 amps to 100 or 200 amps. I just do not want to be taken to the cleaners for this upgrade. All I want to do right now is upgrade the service panel for 60 AMP fuses to 100 AMP or 200 AMP circuit breakers. Could someone provide an average price for this upgrade? Thanks for the assistance.

 

Tell us more. Where is the panel located? Is the meter directly on the other side of the wall from it? Are the walls finished where the panel is? Do you live in a rambler, tri-level, split-level? Is the service comming in underground or overhead?
Standard service changes can range anywhere from $1000.00 up to $4000.00, Ive even had them run all the way up to $8500.00.

 

I'm upgrading my 125 amp service to 200 amp on thursday. It's going to cost me $1250 + tax + permit. (Some of that is for four new outlets in the garage.)

I already have 200 amps at the meter, so they only have to go from the meter to the panel. The cost covers replacing the panel and breakers (supposedly top-of-the-line stuff), installing two new grounding rods, and tying in the water supply line.

If I didn't have 200 amps at the meter already, I would've been looking at another $2000 on top of that since our electricity is underground, and they would've had to dig to the transformer.

If your electricity is on a pole, there will be some additional costs if they need to replace everything from the pole on down to your meter.

Hope this helps!

beth

 

What Beth says it right on the money, however in some counties, such as mine here in Long Island, the power company LIPA will come and add the 200 amp service from the pole to the house for free. They do this in an effort to prevent drain on an already drained system. It is to their benefit that everyone is drawing the proper amperage.....just my 2 cents.....

Upgrade cost me 1200+permit+inspection...

 

Thank you all for your assistance and sorry for the lack of information.
The panel is in the basement, it is a fuse panel. The service comes from the pole outside. The meter is outside. The basement is unfinished. The meter is about 10 feet from the panel, the panel on the inside and the meter on the outside. The house is small semidetached colonial.