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Electrician in Bushnell, FL
City Electric Customers and Addresses Outside the Limits|Repairs, Panels, and New Service|Licensed & Insured, EC13011268
Inside Bushnell's city limits, the power company is the city itself. The City of Bushnell's Electric Division runs the lines and sets the meters, so any job that needs the power shut off, a meter pulled, or a new service connected goes through the city's utility.
Call (352) 251-2795, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or send a request online. Calls after hours are returned the next business day.
Inside the city limits or outside? Note it in your request.
City power
Bushnell's City-Run Electric Utility
The city's own utility
The City of Bushnell Utilities Department supplies electric, water, and wastewater service to homes and businesses in the city. Outside the city limits, Sumter County is served by other power companies, and your bill tells us which one.
One meter for each home
City code requires a separate electric meter for each residential or commercial unit, whether it's a house, a mobile home, or an apartment in a multi-unit building. Overnight rentals in registered mobile home parks are the exception. If you're adding a second home or a mobile home to a lot within the city, or dividing a building into units, each new unit needs its own meter and service, and the Electric Division is involved from the start.
Bushnell housing
Mobile Homes and Early-1980s Houses
The American Community Survey counts 1,524 housing units in Bushnell: 768 mobile homes, 50.4% of the total, and 580 detached houses, with a median build year of 1983. Those figures indicate that the outdoor service equipment has been through four decades of Florida weather.
A meter base or a service connection that has worked loose or corroded can cause lights to brighten and dim for no clear reason or leave part of the house without power. Those are signs that the service equipment should be looked at.
City line work
When the City Has to Extend or Rebuild Its Lines
Some jobs reach past your meter. Bushnell's city code says that when the city has to extend or modify its own electric facilities to serve a customer, the customer is charged for that construction. For a new home, that applies once the extension runs longer than one pole span, or the same length underground. Construction the city performs to modify an existing residential service is charged back, too, and when a transformer is shared between customers, the charge is prorated by usage.
A second home set well back on a lot, or a service upgrade that asks more of the city's equipment, can bring that into play. Those charges are the city's, billed apart from our invoice, so ask the city's utility early what its part of the job will involve.
Rules on Common Jobs
What Bushnell's Rules Mean for Common Jobs
Dividing a commercial building into suites
The city's one-meter-per-unit rule applies to commercial units as well as homes, so each suite carved out of a Bushnell building needs its own city-issued meter, and the build-out drawings show a separate service for each suite.
New commercial service, three-phase included
A new commercial service in the city gets none of the one-pole-span allowance that a new home has: all of its construction costs are borne by the customer. Before a Bushnell business orders three-phase equipment, we confirm what the city's utility will require, so that construction is known before the order goes in.
An EV charger on a city-served home
A Level 2 charger that fits within your home's existing service leaves the city's equipment alone, while one that pushes the house into a service upgrade brings in the city's charge-back for modifying a home's service.
A detached building under Bushnell's meter rule
The city's meter rule applies to dwellings and business units, so a detached shop that serves only your household can be served by a circuit or subpanel from your house. If the building is meant for someone to live in, ask the city's utility about a separate meter before we plan the wiring.
Every service
Electrical Services in Bushnell
Repairs and troubleshooting
Upgrades and installs
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What to Expect When You Book
Repair and troubleshooting visits are billed by the hour from arrival: $100 residential, $150 commercial, one-hour minimum, then half-hour increments, plus materials. No trip charge and no service fee. No hidden fees: the 3.5% surcharge on card and ACH payments is listed in our terms.
We don't do upfront pricing. No job has a standard price with us: each one is tailored to the property and the work you've asked for, and priced once we've seen it.
We offer free estimates on installs, upgrades, and replacements in our service area. Estimates aren't free when the job needs troubleshooting or testing to price, falls after hours or outside our service area, needs several meetings to gather information, or is new construction or a custom remodel with multi-party walk-throughs. For most jobs, estimates arrive by email by the end of the next business day, and quotes are good for 30 days.
Custom homes and large or multi-phase projects are estimated as soon as we can, or on the timeline your project sets.
Does the City of Bushnell still issue building permits?
We're building inside the city. How does the site get power before the house is done?
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Tell us the address, and whether it's inside the city limits, so we know which utility we'll be working with, and what you need done. We'll get back to you during business hours.