Alex is a terrific electrician. I found him via Yelp several years ago, when I was looking for someone who would replace knob and tube wiring in our 1920s house. Many electricians will only do the job if the house is empty, and a lot of them knock (as I know from other people's experiences) large holes in the walls to do it. Alex rewired our whole place in five days _with us in it_, working around all our furniture and making exactly one small hole in the plaster above a door, which he then repaired for me. He is meticulous, patient, unflappable (even he found, rather to my alarm, some DIY wiring wood-glued together behind a light fixture in the bathroom), and exceptionally good at his job. His rates are reasonable, he always provides a written estimate (though at this point I trust him implicitly to be fair), and has never gone over-budget. He's also great when it comes to cooperating with other contractors. We just had AC installed a few weeks ago, and Alex was called in to run the electrics for the new units. He put in a long day, working cordially with a team of unfamiliar guys, and the job was, as usual, perfect.