James B.
11/07/2018 12:00:00 SA
Micah just finished rewiring my house in Berkeley; it started out as a medium-sized project to remove the last of the knob-and-tube in the house, but as he and his team progressed, they found more and more non-code-compliant things that the previous owners' electricians had done, and Micah fixed everything. They ended up putting in a new subpanel, rewiring the connection between the main panel and the subpanel, adding AFCI breakers, removing knob and tube in four rooms, adding several new receptacles where none had been, installing new light fixtures, fixing multiple broken/missing GFCI's, and generally cleaning up a huge mess of wires and cables underneath the house, some of which were apparently pretty serious fire hazards.
He and his team did high-quality work, showed up on time, and dealt gracefully with the madness that is the Berkeley Building and Safety department.
The only possible cons I'll mention:
* Micah (like every other good electrician in the Bay Area) is backed up a pretty long time, so we ended up waiting something like four weeks between when we signed the quote and when he could start.
* All of the extra problems discovered turned this one-to-two-week estimated project into a three-plus-week project (and increased the cost by 40%). In an ideal world, those would have been discovered before work started. In an even more ideal world, the previous electricians wouldn't've screwed so much stuff up, though. *shrug*