Residential Generator Installation

Whole-home and essential-circuit generator installation across northern Indiana

Backup power that works when you are not there

A residential standby generator is the difference between an outage being an inconvenience and an outage being a problem. It starts automatically, it carries the house, and it does that whether you are home, asleep or away.

That last part matters more than people expect. Most of the damage from a winter outage happens to empty houses: the heat goes off, the pipes freeze, and nobody finds out for two days.

What an outage actually costs

Food

A full refrigerator and freezer is a few hundred dollars of groceries, and it is the first thing to go.

Heating and cooling

In an Indiana January the house starts cooling immediately. In July, a home without air conditioning is genuinely dangerous for older residents and anyone with a health condition.

Water and sump pumps

If you are on a well, no power means no water for drinking, washing or flushing. If you have a sump pump, an outage during heavy rain is exactly when you need it running - and exactly when it stops.

Electronics

Outages rarely end cleanly. Power comes back with surges that take out televisions, computers and appliance boards.

Our installation process

• Free assessment. About half an hour at your home. We list your major appliances, inspect your panel, and discuss where the unit can go.
• Written quote. Emailed after the visit, with a follow-up call the next day.
• Permits and scheduling. We handle the permit paperwork and the inspection. Installations currently run six to twelve weeks out from signing.
• Installation. Pad, gas connection, electrical work and automatic transfer switch, done by our own crew.
• Startup and walkthrough. A technician commissions the unit, sets the exercise schedule and walks you through operating it.

What it costs, honestly

A home generator plus installation typically starts at around $11,000, and the total depends on the size of the unit and what the installation involves. A long gas run, a panel that needs work, or a difficult placement all move the number.

We would rather explain that at the kitchen table than surprise you with it later. Financing is available through EnergyPlus and the National Energy Improvement Fund.

Kohler and Briggs & Stratton only

We install Kohler, where we are a Platinum Dealer, and Briggs & Stratton. We do not service Generac, and we will say so on the first call rather than waste your afternoon.

Why homeowners choose us

You deal with the owner

John Gemmer runs the assessments himself. The person walking your panel and sizing your generator is the man whose name is on the company, not a commissioned salesperson working from a script. He has been an electrician for 31 years and spent 20 of them as a fireman.

A small crew, on purpose

Four people, one shop, founded in 2005. The same faces that install your unit come back to service it. That is deliberate, and it is why we would rather be booked out six weeks than grow past the point where we know your installation.

Educational, not pushy

We would rather explain why a generator costs what it costs and let you decide than sell you a bigger unit than your house needs. If the honest answer is that essential-circuits coverage does everything you actually want, we will say so.

Financing available

We work with EnergyPlus through the National Energy Improvement Fund. You can see whether you prequalify in seconds, with no impact on your credit score, and spread the cost rather than paying it in one go.

After the installation

When the unit is commissioned we walk you through operating it, set the exercise schedule, and make sure you know what the indicator lights mean. After that we offer maintenance agreements so the generator stays on a service schedule rather than depending on somebody remembering.

Book an assessment

Call (574) 252-0660 or request a free quote. We cover St. Joseph, Marshall, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Starke and Fulton counties, and southwest Michigan.