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Faults are found with measurement, not by replacing parts in order. Most electrical faults announce themselves before they fail, in heat, smell or a breaker that keeps tripping.
Real Estate Electrical Inspections in O’Fallon and across St. Charles, St. Louis, Lincoln and Warren counties.
Clint Ehman does the work himself. Seventeen years in the trade, Infinity Electric since June 2022.
5.0 from 94 Google reviews · BBB A+ since 2022
What this work actually involves
The fault is located with a meter and a plan rather than by swapping components until something changes.
Nothing gets quoted off a description. The reading comes first, because a symptom has several possible causes at very different prices and only a measurement separates them.
Where a permit and an inspection are required they happen, and the site is left ready for them. One person carries the job from the first call to the final test.
When people call about this
- A burning smell near a panel or outlet
- A breaker that will not stay set
- Lights flickering on unrelated circuits
- An inspection report before a closing
Why people choose Clint for it
The diagnosis and the repair are the same person’s work, which is why the explanation you get is first-hand rather than relayed.
Five point zero from 94 Google reviews, A+ with the BBB since December 2022, and seventeen years in the trade behind it.
Where this is done
Thirty towns across five jurisdictions, worked out of O’Fallon. The housing stock and the inspection process both change as you move across them.
See the full service area, or the rest of our safety & code work.
What an inspector is actually reading
Grounding and bonding, protection in wet locations, the panel with its cover off, terminations at large loads, and the specific hazards this housing stock produces. That short list is most of any inspection report in this metro.
Working from their written items keeps a correction honest and the re-inspection short. Opinions about what else might be wrong are a separate conversation and get flagged as such.
How a fault is actually found
Diagnosis is a process of division. Measure at the panel, measure at the point of failure, then split the circuit until the fault is on one side of the split.
That is slower to describe than swapping parts and much faster in practice, because it ends with an answer instead of a list of things that were not the problem.
What an inspection covers and what you get
Grounding and bonding, protection in wet locations, panel condition with the cover off, terminations at large loads, device condition, and the specific hazards the housing stock here produces: aluminum branch wiring, knob-and-tube, obsolete panels.
You get a written list with readings, separated into what is a hazard, what is a code item, and what is simply old and working. Buyers, insurers and inspectors all ask for different ones.
Who actually does the work
Clint Ehman does the diagnosis and the repair himself. There is no salesman writing a scope for a technician to execute, and nobody paid on what the visit totals.
Seventeen years in the trade, four of them running his own shop out of O’Fallon, licensed, bonded and insured with workers compensation coverage, 5.0 from 94 Google reviews, and A+ BBB accreditation held since 2022.
What gets left behind when the work is done
A labeled panel, accessible junctions, the old parts if you want to see them, and a straight account of anything found along the way that was not part of the call.
Where something else was found, you get told what it is and whether it needs doing now, later or not at all. That third answer is a real answer and it gets used.
“Clint came out installed me a large 200 amp panel put some new dedicated lines in my basement and garage he did great clean work all inspections passed he was thorough and knowledgeable. I will have him back out again.”
Jason Holtzman · Google review
How the visit goes
- The call
What you are seeing, smelling or hearing, and when it started. Heat and smell move you up the day.
- The measurement
Reproduce the symptom, then divide the circuit until the fault is on one side of the split. Measurement at the panel and at the point of failure.
- The finding
What it was, with the reading. Including when the answer is one loose connection rather than the rewire you were braced for.
- The work
Correction scoped to the finding, permitted and re-inspected where the municipality requires it, and documentation you can hand to an inspector or a buyer.
What the job includes
- Reproducing the symptom before anything is replaced
- Measurement at the panel and at the fault
- A plain-words finding with the number that supports it
- Correction scoped to the finding, nothing bundled
- Permit and re-inspection where a municipality requires it
- Documentation you can hand to an inspector or a buyer
What it does not
- Replacing parts that test sound
- Opinions where a measurement is possible
- Work outside electrical, though we will say who to call
Work that is not electrical gets a referral, not a quote. Finished work is in the gallery. To book, pick a day.
Related safety & code work
Real Estate Electrical Inspections across the metro
Where the house is changes what the work involves. Clint works out of O’Fallon across five jurisdictions, and the same service means different work in each.
St. Louis County
Dozens of municipalities, each with its own occupancy inspection and its own thresholds. Knowing which authority has the address matters as much as knowing the house.
St. Louis City
Brick with plaster over lath, party walls that limit where a run can go, and a hundred years of electrical layers in the basement.
Lincoln County
Rural properties where the panel is fine and the two hundred foot run to the barn is the actual job.
Thirty towns across five jurisdictions, all on the service areas page.
Questions worth asking first.
There is a burning smell near my panel. What should I do?
Treat that as urgent. Turn off what you safely can and call. Heat and smell at a panel or outlet are the two symptoms that should never wait for a scheduled visit.
Can you handle the items on my inspection report?
Yes. Send the report. The items get corrected, permitted where the municipality requires it, and re-inspected so the file closes before your closing date.
My lights flicker across the whole house. Is that urgent?
Potentially. A whole-house flicker, especially when a large motor starts, can mean a failing service neutral, which can damage equipment. That gets measured at the panel before anything inside is touched.
Are you licensed and insured?
Licensed, bonded and insured, with workers compensation coverage, and accredited A+ with the BBB since 2022.
Where do you work?
Out of O’Fallon across St. Charles County, St. Louis County, St. Louis City, and Lincoln and Warren counties, roughly a fifty mile radius.
Ask what it actually reads.
You get the figure and what it means, before any work is agreed. Real Estate Electrical Inspections in O’Fallon and across the metro.
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