Janel C.
06/01/2020 12:00:00 SA
So. Back in the winter of 2019, before things got really weird, we had a little casita built in our backyard. Long story short, the contractor didn't do a very good job on the new electrical.
Cut to Memorial Day weekend: There's a pandemic; it's hot; I'm dealing with angsty teenagers who've been stuck at home and totally side-lined; when the problem outlet goes out in the middle of the night.... which had our garage-refrigerator plugged into it. Of course it did. Of. Course.
So there we are, 6:30am on a Saturday, desperately in need of haircuts, in our jammies, running a bunch of defrosting meat through the yard to get to the house freezer. Sigh. (our dog got out after that due to the power outage as well, but that's a whole other nightmare. ... she's fine, but jeez-whiz.) We tried to reset the breaker thingy and the box actually SPARKED and then the power went out for the entire casita. Um, hi, no thanks. This is a job for someone who knows what the heck they're doing.
We contact our original contractor, since they had just installed it 3 months prior... 3 hours later, no response.
So, I got on to Yelp and looked up a local electrician. I called Edwin, and he was at our house in 20 minutes! That alone is enough to get at least 4 stars from me. He looked it over. Walked through the casita, investigating everything. Another star for thoroughness.
He told us that he knew exactly what the problem was, but that he wasn't going to fix it until we consulted with our original contractors, since it was their bad, and he didn't want to take our money for a problem that they needed to address. 10 more stars for integrity.
Edwin reset the breaker properly, got the rest of the power on to the casita and warned us to keep the fridge-outlet off until the OG contractor could come out. (They came out yesterday, fixed the problem and went on their way. We filled the bonus fridge with beer and were ready to relax.... guess what. Yup. It's out again. That's a whole other Oprah though, and a different type of yelp review. Grr.)
Anyway, back to Edwin. He was prompt, paid attention to detail, diagnosed the problem in a timely manner and is fairly priced. We look forward to having him come out and do some outdoor lighting for our yard. We will also likely write-off our previous contractor and have Edwin fix their wonky fustercluck of a wiring job. We need cold beer, after all. Definitely consider E4 Electric, and Edwin Gomez when in need of an electrician.