York County, Maine
Licensed, insured electrical work for Limerick homes and businesses, with the owner on every job.
Limerick is a hill-and-brook town on the old Sokokis Trail, now Route 5, with an Upper Village on the National Register, part of the Lake Arrowhead community and about 3,400 residents. In Limerick, Goodnow Electric (Maine master electrician license MS60021971) takes on service and panel upgrades, home EV charging, backup generators, rewiring and lighting, and answers emergency calls day and night. Every job has the owner on site and a free written estimate, with the permit and inspection handled as part of it.
Limerick is mostly a 1980s and 1990s town in its housing. Census estimates put about 49 percent of its roughly 1,600 homes in the 1980 to 1999 building years, with another 30 percent built since 2000 and a median year built of 1994. Only about 4 percent predate 1940, among them the older houses of the historic Upper Village along Main Street. Single-family detached houses make up nearly 88 percent of the stock and mobile homes about 6 percent, and close to 90 percent are lived in by their owners. The practical result is a large stock of 30- to 45-year-old panels and wiring that works but was sized for an era before heat pumps, home offices and electric cars.
About 65 percent of occupied Limerick homes heat with oil, with propane near 13 percent, wood near 13 percent and electricity under 3 percent, according to the Census Bureau; no homes report piped gas. That low electric-heat share is the point. Almost every house here was built around a fuel-burning boiler or furnace, with an electrical service sized for lights, appliances and a well pump. Moving to heat pumps, adding an EV charger or both changes that equation, and the service-size question comes before the equipment question. Answering it first avoids buying heat pumps or a charger that the panel cannot actually carry.
Central Maine Power supplies Limerick, and state utility mapping places the town in CMP’s Alfred service district. Trees and wet snow are the usual culprits. The April 4, 2024 storm brought trees down across lines and roads in Limerick, one of several towns CMP singled out, on a day when over 90,000 York County accounts, out of nearly 129,000 the utility serves in the county, lost power. Statewide, the Oct. 30, 2017 windstorm still holds the Maine record for weather-related outages, at more than 400,000. Private wells supply most homes, except in the parts of the upper and lower villages on the town’s water district, so losing power usually means losing running water too.
Settled in 1775 and incorporated in 1787, Limerick was named by lawyer James Sullivan for his father’s birthplace in Ireland. Its village grew along the Sokokis Trail, and brooks powered mills, tanneries and furniture shops. In 1857 Joshua Holland bought the Limerick Manufacturing Company on Brown Brook, and its Holland Blankets supplied Civil War troops; a village called Hollandville grew around the mill. The Limerick Upper Village Historic District, about 11 acres of Main Street between the junctions of Routes 5, 11 and 160, was listed on the National Register in 1984.
Limerick’s code enforcement officer serves as building inspector, plumbing inspector and shoreland officer, and building permits are filed at the code office or online through the town’s permit portal. The building permit asks for a plot plan showing the house, driveway, septic and well, plus Saco River Corridor and DEP approvals where they apply. The town adopted the Maine Uniform Building Code in 2012. Electrical permits are not among the town’s listed permits; they go through the Maine Electricians’ Examining Board, whose state inspectors work York County and apply the 2026 NEC to any job started from July 1, 2026 onward.
Commercial, solar, smart home and new construction work are covered on our full list of electrical services.
Close to Limerick, we also work in Limington, Waterboro, Newfield, Cornish, Parsonsfield, and Shapleigh. Every town we serve is listed on our service area page.
Before you call, it can help to read what smart home wiring is worth doing in Maine, why Southern Maine homes outgrow 100-amp panels, and a Maine homeowner's guide to EV charger installation.
More resources: answers to common electrical questions, our generator sizing guide, and electrical tips and guides for Maine homeowners.
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Chris Cantara • November 2025 • Google Review
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