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Update:
They contacted me about trying to arrange a make good, but I found someone else to make most of the repairs. Since they did try, I am upgrading them.

A huge shout-out to Ron Parra and the team @ Parra Electric! The crew from Parra recently replaced our main circuit board and installed a whole house generator on our home. They were professional, clean, and worked with us to help us stay on-line and live with two professionals working from home and two kids going to school online, all while they basically replaced our electrical service. I couldn't recommend them more highly.

I needed two electrical repairs to my property. I messaged John on Friday night for a quote, and he came out by Saturday afternoon to fix both at the same price. Highly recommend for any electrical services.

I was very happy with the service I received from this company. We were ready to move into our new house but turned out the service wire was in really bad shape. We found out because the electric company said it's been over 5 years since that property had service running so we needed to hire some contractor to evaluate if the house was hook up ready before some one came out to actually turn it on. We pay this contractor or w/e guy $100 to pull out front and say I can tell you right now you fail. He took one look at that service wire and that was it. Our moving date had to be pushed.
We called a few local places, Zack Electric was able to give us a fast affordable quote and they met us that afternoon. The guys were really professional and polite, but they were funny and easygoing. The 2 of them were very thorough, they must have been in and out of there in 2 hours. We were really bummed we had to get it done, but they definitely made the situation much easier then I originally expected. I highly recommend them.

My husband and I bought a 120 year old house this fall and were looking for an electrician to remediate the knob and tube in a very tight two week period. Christian and his team were incredibly flexible and responsive and explained things super thoroughly to us as first time homeowners. Since the K&T removal, we have had them back for various projects around the house (fixing outdoor electric hookups, installing light fixtures, and doorbells) and the work is always done extremely well and fast! We will 100% be using them for all of our electrical needs in the future. I've recommended them to a couple of friends and cannot speak highly enough of this business!!

We had Ryan from RJD install our dishwasher and I couldn't be happier with the install. He seems to be a bit of a perfectionist and that is exactly what you want in a contractor.

SG Electric was a true lifesaver today. We had an electrical emergency today. We had just returned from a Corona-19 shopping trip and put a lot of perishable food in our garage refrigerator. We noticed that our refrigerator had stopped working as well as our garage door. We looked on Yelp and Immediately saw SG was rated highly and contacted him.  Steve was in the city and said he would stop by in about an hour or so. We were surprised that he would be able to get to us today as we contacted him around 3pm. But true to his word he arrived at our home around 4pm. While we thought the solution was going to be to replace a GFCI outlet, it was not and Steve methodically troubleshot and resolved the problem. It turned out to be an outdoor outlet on the GFCI circuit. Both of our outdoor outlets were old and the covers were not adequate. He replaced both of our outdoor outlets with far superior outlets with rugged covers. Steve is an extremely competent electrician as well as a genuinely nice person. And the bottom line was that the cost for all of this was just a little more than his original estimate for replacing the GFCI Outlet. If you are in need of an electrician , give SG a chance, I think you'll be glad you did.

Simply the best. We had a problem with our plumbing that other plumbers couldn't fix. Experience really does matter. They fixed it quickly and we couldn't be happier. Highly recommend.

This scumbag actually got mad at me for trying to get him to do some work. Wtf I'm PAYING YOU MAN.
I called and the whole conversation he is trying to talk me out of hiring him.
I've never heard of this.
I had been getting shocked every time I touched my kitchen sink.
I got someone else to do it and it was only $100.

If Daniels wasn't such a Jackass he would have made the money and had 4 other jobs to do just thru me. Then I would have recommended him to others when asked.

This guy is a joke.

Ken Marshall and his team have been my go to people for all my electrical work for over 10 years . This past year they provided excellent ideas during our remodel and help us make sure we were putting in electrical solutions to meet our needs. They moved lighting , added electrical outlets , added TV cabling and even installed wall unit for TV both indoor and outdoors.
I would highly recommend their Company to anyone.

If I could give 0 stars I would.
Funny, they actually did do a similarly small job for us within the past year, however this time and as another poster wrote, I suppose we're small potatoes for Carswell Electric.  I called, texted and left messages for this company WAY more than a customer should, albeit a RETURN customer.  Only once did I try one more time and actual spoke to an electrician that gave complete and  welcoming lip service but also asked that I call to remind him on the requested day of the service call.
Seriously?  I, the customer need to remind you, the business person for a job?  So when the day came to do the job, I did as I was asked to do, and no one picked up my call nor answered my text message. What a complete and disrespectful waste of my timr.  As a fellow small business owner, what I can tell you is that you continue this way of poor business practices and you will surely one day be OUT of business!

I would recommend to others reading this to look elsewhere.  There are plenty of well meaning, GRACIOUS electrical contractors out there that WANT your business.  Carswell Electric is not one of them.

I wish I could give Dave Early 0 stars. If you need work in your home, don't hire him. Dave is dishonest. He does not have enough experience for remodeling, especially bathroom, in which I hired him to do. I did not check references or reviews.
First of all he was always late. Most days he was unprepared for the job and had to go to Home Depot or Lowes every day, which took time out of the work day. Most of his work was wrong and had to be torn down by another contractor that did the work correctly. It was also very messy and sloppy. I had 4 contractors tell me they would tare out most of his work and start over. I wish I could show you the pictures. The plumbing was wrong, and he used green board where he should have used hardy board in the shower and used minimal red guard. I had him stop after the first row of tile because he put super thick uneven thinset with gaps everywhere, not flush with the wall. It was a mess. He also took my toilet off every day and put it back without tightening the bolts and caused the toilet to leak. He also fell trying to install the bathtub and put a large hole in the ceiling. I overpaid him. He should be giving me back at least $2000. He now ignores my calls and messaged and won't get back to me on the issues. I can not take him to court since the courts are closed because of COVID. Hopefully anyone who needs work done reads this review. He is very unprofessional and dishonest. I'm a single mon with a special needs son....it doesn't seem to bother him if he has a conscience.

Needed a new lamp post head. Estimate $380 plus the lamp post head that I was supposed to provide. How can they ask $380 to connect two wires plus the ground wire. Cost me $49 to have to tell the service person no. Did the work myself. Would never even think about using them. Oh, one more thing, the guy kept pressing me to buy a one year service contract, because my kitchen was surely out of code. My kitchen was re-done and re-wired, following code specs, three years ago.