Electrical Work in Lake Wales
Kincaid Electric has been working out of Lake Wales since 1973, and Lake Wales is well inside the area we cover every week. Same licensed crew, same upfront pricing, whether you are five minutes from the shop or across the county.
Lake Wales sits inside the Tampa to Titusville corridor known as Lightning Alley, the densest lightning zone in North America, and Polk County recorded more cloud to ground strikes than any other county in the United States in 2024 at roughly 852,000, so surge damage to well pumps, HVAC boards, and irrigation timers is a routine summer call. The downtown historic district is a block of 1920s brick buildings including the Rhodesbilt Arcade, the Bullard Block, and the ten story Grand Hotel, and those commercial spaces still hide overloaded panels and undersized services behind tenant buildouts. New home permits jumped from 31 in 2020 to 409 in 2024, and large projects including Stoneridge, Lake Wales Commons, and Peace Crossing have been approved, so demand for new construction rough in and service upgrades is climbing fast.
What Lake Wales Homes Need Most
Lake Wales housing splits sharply between old and new, with the average home built around 1987 but heavy concentrations at both extremes. The Northwest neighborhood and the streets around the downtown core are dominated by homes built between 1940 and 1969, which routinely means cloth covered branch wiring, fuse panels or early 60 and 100 amp services, ungrounded two prong receptacles, and no dedicated circuits for modern kitchen and laundry loads. At the other end, subdivisions like Whispering Ridge, Leoma's Landing, and the Lake Ashton 55 plus community were built from the mid 2000s onward and need EV charging circuits, whole home surge protection, smart devices, and generator interlocks rather than rewiring.
Our Services in Lake Wales
Rewiring in Lake Wales
The pre 1970 stock in Northwest Lake Wales and around downtown still carries cloth insulated and ungrounded branch circuits that need full or partial rewiring before a modern kitchen, laundry, or HVAC load can be added safely.
Learn morePanel Upgrade in Lake Wales
Fuse panels and 60 to 100 amp services are still common in the older core, and a 200 amp upgrade is the prerequisite for central air, EV charging, and whole home surge protection.
Learn moreSurge Protection in Lake Wales
Lake Wales sits in the highest lightning density corridor in North America, so whole home surge protection at the panel is the cheapest way to protect well pumps, HVAC boards, and electronics.
Learn moreElectrical Repair in Lake Wales
Established neighborhoods generate steady calls for dead outlets, tripping breakers, failing fixtures, and heat damaged devices in older cloth and aluminum wired circuits.
Learn moreCommercial Electrical in Lake Wales
The 1920s brick commercial buildings in the downtown historic district and the retail corridor along US 27 need tenant buildouts, service upgrades, and code corrections that residential only shops will not touch.
Learn moreNeighborhoods We Cover in Lake Wales
- Downtown Lake Wales Commercial Historic District
- Northwest Lake Wales
- Grove Manor
- Lake Ashton
- Whispering Ridge
- Leoma's Landing
- Floritan and West Lake Wales
- Carlsberg Estates on Lake Suzanne
You will see our trucks around Bok Tower Gardens on Iron Mountain, Spook Hill, Historic Lake Wales Depot and History Museum in the 1928 Atlantic Coast Line station and Eagle Ridge Mall on US 27.
Need an electrician in Lake Wales?
Call and talk to someone local who can tell you honestly whether it can wait for a scheduled slot or needs a truck today.
Nearby Areas We Serve
All service areasLake Wales Electrical FAQs
Where in Lake Wales are you based?
Our shop is at 56 W Central Ave in downtown Lake Wales and has been our base since 1973. A 33853 address is the shortest drive we make, so we can normally get to Lake Wales calls faster than anywhere else we serve. Call (863) 676-0198 and we will tell you honestly when we can be there.
What does an electrical panel upgrade cost in Lake Wales?
We will not put a number on it over the phone, because the price is driven by what is already on the wall. Whether you are on a fuse panel or an early 100 amp service, whether the meter can, service mast and grounding electrodes have to be replaced with the panel, how far the panel sits from the meter, and the permit and utility disconnect all move it. In the older Northwest Lake Wales and downtown houses it is common to find the whole service needs replacing rather than just the panel. We look at the job, put the price in writing, and you have it before work starts.
My house near downtown is from the 1950s. Does it all need rewiring?
Not always. Plenty of homes in Northwest Lake Wales and around the downtown core need a partial rewire, meaning the kitchen, laundry and bathroom circuits plus a properly grounded service, rather than a full one. Cloth insulated and ungrounded branch circuits do have to be dealt with, but the scope should follow what we find when we open devices and test circuits.
Lightning took out my well pump and irrigation timer again. Can that be prevented?
It can be reduced. Polk County recorded more cloud to ground strikes than any other county in the United States in 2024 and Lake Wales sits in the middle of that corridor, so this is one of the most common summer calls we take. A whole home surge device at the panel plus point of use protection on the pump control and irrigation timer costs far less than replacing a pump every couple of seasons. Nothing protects against a direct hit, but most damage arrives as a surge down the service.
Do you work on the old brick buildings downtown?
Yes. The commercial blocks in the downtown historic district have had tenants layered into them for a century, so a buildout there usually turns up an overloaded panel, an undersized service, or circuits nobody has a record for. We survey what is actually there before you commit to a fit out, so you know what the space will carry.