Installing a 200-Amp Meter Main in Seattle

For many Seattle homeowners, the limitations of an older electrical system don’t show up all at once — they surface gradually, as new demands pile onto infrastructure that was never meant to handle them. This home is a good example. A well-kept residential property with a detached structure, it had no dedicated electrical service entry on the exterior wall of the garage — exactly the kind of gap that becomes a problem the moment a homeowner starts planning for an EV charger, a workshop, or anything that draws real load.

Seatown’s crew installed a complete 200-amp service entry from scratch: a new weatherhead and mast running up to the utility connection at the roofline, with conduit drop down the exterior wall feeding into a meter main mounted cleanly on the siding. The work gave the structure its own dedicated service point — meter socket and main disconnect combined in a single unit — properly positioned and up to current code.

The difference between the before and after is the kind of thing that’s easy to take for granted once it’s done. What had been a blank wall is now a fully capable service entry, ready to support whatever the homeowner adds next. That’s usually how these upgrades go — invisible until you need them, and then exactly what makes everything else possible.