Licensed electrical contractor · West Springfield, MA
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Act 03 — The Rules
Pools and spas, permanent and landscape lighting, EV chargers, generators, panels and rewires. One licensed electrician, eight towns, and a phone that gets answered.
Around here pools are seasonal. I learned them where they aren’t.
Most electricians in the valley see a handful of pools a year and treat each one as an unfamiliar job. I started my career in Florida doing several a day, year round, before moving back. Bonding, pump circuits, spa disconnects, underwater lighting — the work that makes other shops slow down is the work I have done more times than I can count. That is why the pool and spa dealers here have my number, and why a tub delivered on Thursday can be running on Thursday.
Act 04 — The Valley
Eight towns, and one of them is home.
Eversource towns
West Springfield, Springfield, Agawam, Longmeadow and East Longmeadow. The Mass Save HEAT Loan applies here, and a panel or service upgrade can qualify when it clears the way for a heat pump, an EV charger or an induction range.
Mass Save appliesMunicipal light plant towns
Chicopee, Holyoke and Westfield are served by Chicopee Electric Light, Holyoke Gas and Electric, and Westfield Gas and Electric. Mass Save does not cover them; each runs its own efficiency and rebate programs instead.
Municipal programs insteadProgram terms are set annually. Confirm current eligibility with your utility before you budget around it.
Yes. Monfett Electric LLC is a licensed electrical contractor in Massachusetts and carries liability insurance. The license number is in the footer of every page, and we are happy to send a certificate of insurance to any homeowner, dealer or property manager who wants one on file.
West Springfield, Springfield, Agawam, Longmeadow, Chicopee, Holyoke and Westfield. West Springfield is home, so it usually gets the fastest response. For work just outside that list it is worth calling, particularly for pool, spa and generator jobs.
No charge to come out and quote work of any size. Diagnostic work is different, because finding the fault is the job, and we will tell you what that costs before starting rather than after.
Call and you will get a straight answer about how soon we can be there. We would rather tell you honestly that tomorrow morning is the earliest than promise tonight and not turn up. If it is a burning smell, a hot panel or water reaching electrical equipment, shut the power off at the main and call the fire department first.
Bonding ties every metal part in and around a pool together with solid copper so that no two surfaces a swimmer can touch are ever at different voltages. It covers the pool shell reinforcing steel, ladders and rails, the pump motor, metal fittings and the water itself. Bonding is not the same as grounding, and a pool needs both. It is required by Article 680 of the National Electrical Code, and it is the single most common thing we find missing on older pools.
Often not, but it has to be checked rather than assumed. The deciding factor is a load calculation on the existing service, not the size of the panel. Many homes with a 200 amp service take a charger with no changes. A 100 amp service, or a panel with no spaces left, may need a subpanel or a service upgrade first. We run the calculation before quoting.