Polaris Electric is a Columbus electrical company that spends most of its days on one job: replacing fuse boxes and small panels in houses that have outgrown them. The rest of the schedule fills with the work that keeps a house or a shop running, from a breaker that trips every evening to a new circuit for a car charger.

Frank Holcomb Starts With Questions

Frank Holcomb in a khaki work jacket, standing by the orange company van

Frank learned electrical work as a helper, pulling cable through attics and crawl spaces on new houses around Columbus, and started Polaris Electric in 2014. When a call comes in, he starts with questions about what stopped working and when.

He takes on small repairs as readily as larger jobs, and he explains what he found before any repair begins.

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Old Houses, Bigger Loads

Columbus has a deep stock of older housing: brick homes in German Village and Victorian Village, and mid-century houses in Clintonville and Whitehall. Many still run on fuse boxes or 100-amp panels that were never meant to carry central air, an electric dryer and a modern kitchen at the same time. Swapping those panels is the core of what we do, and the job often turns up problems behind the walls, such as worn grounding and old splices, that get fixed while the panel is open.

Beyond panels, the work runs from troubleshooting tripping breakers and dead outlets to outlet and switch replacement, recessed lighting, ceiling fans, EV charger circuits, whole-house surge protection, smoke detector wiring and generator hookups.

Who We Work For

Most calls come from homeowners, and plenty come from landlords who keep rental houses safe and rentable between tenants. We also wire small commercial spaces: shops, offices and restaurants where a dead circuit means lost business. Each kind of customer gets the same approach: find the cause first, explain it, then fix it.

In a shop, an office or a restaurant the calls sound different: a circuit that trips when the kitchen equipment starts, lighting that has reached the end of its life, a dedicated circuit for a new machine, a panel that has run out of spaces. A dead circuit there can mean a closed door and lost sales, which is why those calls start with the same questions as a house call.

Our area covers the city of Columbus and the nearby towns of Bexley, Grandview Heights, Upper Arlington and Worthington, where the housing runs from early brick and Tudor homes to post-war ranches with additions.

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