Maryville · Blount County, Tennessee
Cross Creek Electric does electrical work for homes and businesses across Blount County: wiring, lighting, ceiling fans, outlets, switches and the repairs that keep it all working. Licensed and insured.
What we do
The jobs that make a house or a shop work right. The first five are on Cross Creek’s own list; the rest is standard electrical work we can talk through with you.
All servicesIn their own words
“Electrical installation, maintenance, and repairs for homes and businesses. Licenced and insured.”
If a fix is simple, we say so. If something is unsafe, we show you why. No upselling a panel you don’t need.
Tight connections, the right box, the right breaker, clean runs. The kind of work that disappears into the wall and stays reliable.
We show up when we say, protect floors, and leave the place the way we found it, minus the problem.
Local knowledge
The foothills of the Smokies make for a particular mix of houses, weather and power companies.
Depending on your address, your power comes through the Maryville Electric Department, the Alcoa Electric Department or Fort Loudoun Electric Cooperative, all TVA distributors. They own everything up to the meter. Everything after it is ours.
Older homes near downtown Maryville and in Alcoa’s company-town neighborhoods often have wiring added onto in pieces. Newer subdivisions want more lighting, fans, garage circuits and EV chargers.
Spring and summer thunderstorms bring lightning and surges, and wooded lots bring limbs down on lines. That’s where surge protection and a safe generator hookup earn their keep.
Service area
Based in Maryville and working across Blount County, from Alcoa and Rockford to the lake at Louisville and up the Little River to Townsend.
Full service areaHow it works
Tell us what’s going on, and include your town and a photo if you can.
Request serviceSend a request with your town and a few lines about the job. Photos of the panel or the problem help.
We see the actual wiring, panel and space before giving you a number.
What we found, what we recommend and what it costs, in plain words, before work begins.
Work done to code, tested, labeled where it should be, and the site left clean.
Straight answers
33 plain answers on tripping breakers, older panels, storms, generators, EV chargers and hiring a licensed electrician in Tennessee.
All 33 answersTurn off the breaker for that circuit, or the main breaker, if you can do it safely, then call an electrician. If there is smoke or fire, get everyone out and call 911.
Yes, as one layer of protection. A surge protective device at the panel limits surges coming in from lightning and utility switching, protecting appliance and HVAC electronics. Pair it with good plug-in surge protectors for computers and TVs.
Common reasons are a panel brand with a known history of problems, signs of heat or corrosion, no room left for circuits, frequent nuisance tripping, or too little capacity for what you are adding (an EV charger, a heat pump, a shop).
Often, yes, as long as the box is replaced or braced with a fan-rated box. A standard light box isn’t made to hold a fan’s weight and wobble.
A dedicated 240-volt circuit sized to the charger, usually 40 to 60 amps, and enough capacity in your panel and service to carry it. An electrician will do a load calculation first.
The Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, part of the Department of Commerce & Insurance, issues electrical contractor licenses and the Limited Licensed Electrician (LLE) license. You can look up any license at verify.tn.gov.
Maryville · Blount County
Installation, maintenance and repairs for homes and businesses. Licensed and insured.