Sparking outlet, burning smell, half the house dark after a storm — call and we dispatch a licensed electrician from our Myrtle Beach shop, 24 hours a day, holidays included. We cover the whole Strand, from Pine Lakes and the Golden Mile to Market Common, Grande Dunes, Carolina Forest, and Socastee.
📞 (843) 628-7289 Tap to call · 24/7 emergency responseAny of these signs is a real electrical emergency. Don't try to diagnose it yourself, don't unplug things, and don't open the panel. Call us and we'll talk you through it on the way.
That's plastic insulation melting from overheating wires. It can ignite at any moment. Shut off the affected breaker if you can identify it safely, then call.
Any visible spark, arc, or smoke from a receptacle, switch, or panel means a connection is failing under load. Kill the breaker if you know which one and call us right away.
A face plate that's warm or hot is a hidden wiring fault. Don't touch it again. Kill the breaker that controls the room if you know which one.
If half the house lost power but the rest is fine, you likely lost one leg of the 240V feed — common after a storm has beaten on the service drop, and it can fry appliances. And in a city where roughly 40% of homes sit in condo and apartment buildings, we know when the fault is on the HOA's side of the meter, and we'll tell you straight.
Loud buzzing from your main panel means a breaker or busbar connection is arcing. Myrtle Beach housing skews newer — the median home here was built around 1994 — but the older in-town blocks around Pine Lakes still carry aging panels, and salt air corrodes lugs and connections on homes all along the coast.
Treat any downed line as energized. Call your utility first to de-energize — Santee Cooper on the beach side, Horry Electric Cooperative across much of Socastee and Carolina Forest — then call us. We handle the mast, weatherhead, meter base, and panel side once the line is safe.
The Grand Strand has been through Hazel in '54, Hugo in '89, Matthew in 2016, and the flooding Florence left across Horry County in 2018. When the power does something strange at 2am, you want a call that puts a licensed electrician on the road tonight — not a national call center.
Myrtle Beach anchors the 60-mile Grand Strand, and it anchors our coverage too. From our Myrtle Beach shop we run the beach cities and the neighborhoods behind them — Little River down through Garden City, Murrells Inlet, and Pawleys Island — across every Myrtle Beach ZIP: 29572, 29575, 29577, 29579, and 29588.
Not tonight's emergency, but on the list? We also handle electrical panel upgrades and EV charger installation across the Strand — or start at our Myrtle Beach electrician page.
Burning smell from an outlet or panel, sparking, visible smoke, hot switch covers, partial outage with the rest of the home still powered, a tripped main that won't reset, a downed service line on your property, or a panel buzzing loudly. If you see flames or smoke, call 911 first, then us.
Yes. Our Grand Strand crew works out of our Myrtle Beach shop, and they're the same electricians who already build and wire new homes up and down the Strand. When you call, we dispatch a licensed electrician and confirm an ETA for your address — no national call center, no subcontractors.
Yes — emergency dispatch outside normal business hours carries an after-hours rate, and we're upfront about it on the phone before we roll a truck. If it can wait until morning, book our $89 diagnostic visit — credited back on any job of $275 or more.
Treat any downed line as energized and stay away from it. Call your utility first to de-energize — Santee Cooper serves the beach side and most homes inside Myrtle Beach city limits, while Horry Electric Cooperative covers much of Socastee, Forestbrook, and Carolina Forest. Once the line is safe, we repair the mast, weatherhead, meter base, and panel.
Depends on where the house sits, not the mailing address. Inside city limits, permits run through the City of Myrtle Beach Construction Services Department at 843-918-1111, which staffs its own electrical inspector. In the parts of 29579 and 29588 outside city limits — most of Carolina Forest and Socastee — the permit goes through Horry County Code Enforcement in Conway. We pull permits in both jurisdictions.