Naveen K.
07/08/2021 12:00:00 SA
He may be good with replacing an outlet or installing a light BUT for larger projects, dont DO IT, dont go by his words. For big ticket items, hire a LICENSED contractor (he is NOT LICENSED) who has to abide by the agreement and have a written agreement. If you go with him for any work, have that independently verified. He will throw in a freebie or a few niceties, some extra work to get a 5 star review and that is where all this skewed reviews begin.
He cuts corners (details below), his work cannot be trusted (details below), his workers dont clean after work and have an attitude of a royalty.
My issues with Daniel and Zair Electric:
1) Bait and Switch
2) Doesn't respond after the payment (his offers are all verbal, haven't received an invoice even after a month) (attached screenshot).
3) If he thinks that you are gullible, he and his team will take you for a ride
When Daniel came for appraisal he showed up on time and mentioned that its a simple job and gave a plan of how is was going to do. I consulted others, including some licensed and unlicensed electricians. His quote was the among the lowest, another unlicensed person gave a similar quote.
I took some time and called him to come over for the work. The next day he came, he changed his version of what was agreed upon (wanted a 200 amp breaker in my main panel) and bumped up the price from 3000 to 4500 (two ac points, 200 amp mainpanel and new 200 amp subpanel and grounding of the outlets) saying he'll replace the subpanel and add a 200 amp main panel. I asked him to send a message about what he is going to work on.
He started the work, started opening up the panels, cutting the stucco and all of sudden the VERSION AGAIN CHANGED, he said he will not have any main panel breaker now, there will only be a subpanel breaker.
His grounding of outlets involved, connecting the third pin to the box - electrical 101 tells you this is NOT grounding (if you are unaware, he will take you for a ride with this one). If mere connecting third pin to the box was all needed for grounding, why would I pay him 1200-1300 for that, I would have done that my self in 1/2 hour. When I questioned, he said, his team didn't know about it.
They dont care about your property, they unnecessarily cut two studs, used wrong tools, damaged the water heater's straps (this heater happened to be behind the subpanel he was installing and was a casualty of their negligence).
To add a cherry to the topping, he didn't close an open switch, which had a live wire coming out of it. When questioned through text, all he said was sorry and he will fix it when he comes back from Texas. Its been a month already - He doesn't respond to texts nor calls. I paid up for the work, I shouldn't have.
They left the stucco debris, screws near the outlet, my kiddo was trying to put it in mouth, fortunately we were around.
Even deep down, he knew this was a sub par work - he didn't send an invoice as of now - I'll deal with that later.
I got his reference through Yelp - I posted the work needed and Yelp associated four-five contractors. Yelp should do more homework about the contractors that it assigns - This person surely didn't stand up to the mark.