Konsker Electric

He was able to coach me to fix my breaker over the phone. No fee despite my offering a small one for his time. Really knowledgeable. Yes, there's a meaningful minimal fee for a visit, but he was upfront. You could tell he knew what he was doing and genuinely could be relied upon, which is what I value most.

Robert and his crew replaced my old electrical panel and re wire all my house , price was pretty good compare to other bids , and finish before the date we agree on so that lawyers good. And everything was permitted and inspected by the city, Thank you Robert!

Ripoff alert: avoid this contractor

On the suggestion of our furnace repair guy who detected a hot spot, I contacted Robert to come check our circuit panel. Robert checked our panel and tightened two screws on one loose circuit breaker. He was on site for about 20 minutes and he charged me $350 plus tax for a total of $385.35. Ouch! He said this was the fee for a site visit. He also offered to waive the tax if I paid cash, which sounded a bit dodgy. I could imagine a site visit costing $75, or $100, or maybe even $150. But nearly $400 for turning two screws? I felt like a sucker and chump. Don't end up like me. Avoid this contractor... unless you have money to burn.

Most electricians are too busy to take care of blown breakers and annoying little jobs. And probably Konsker Electric is no different but they did and it didn't take long and they were reasonably priced. This is the kind of service you hope for during your time of need. I've given out Konsker Electric's number to anyone that's needed electrical help and they all love him. Robert is a blast to be around, I mean come on, he's a New Yorker, he can service existing situations and  even build you a new house. He's been in the industry for generations. So don't be afraid,  try Robert Konsker,  I'm glad I did!

I called Konsker Electric to see if my home had the ability to install an electric vehicle charger in my home based on the amp capacity I had to my home. He left a job and came out, same day, and showed me what my house had for capacity and made recommendations for the type of charger amy house could safely accommodate and even shared what some electric car models needed versus others. Apparently he does a lot of these installs around Seattle. So cool. Expectations exceeded.

OK, I reviewed the wrong people first time! Sorry Konsker Electric in NY!

So here was my original 1-star review: Oh man, I had to teeter between the 1 and 2 stars. It's a shame; they are smart, courteous, and 100% able to do the work.. I mainly have issues with the payment processing. Robert himself came out to do the quotes and to answer questions. He was extremely knowledgeable and respectful; he quoted $390 to replace 4 breakers.

I know hardly anything about electrical work, but compared to the other quotes we got from other electricians, this was the best deal. We went ahead with it. Well two guys came out (they crammed me into their busy schedules, grateful for this!), and they found that they could not do 2 of the breakers.

Ok. Weird. So Robert called to explain everything afterwards, a great gesture. He explained that 2 breakers were in-operable, AS HE HAD EXPLAINED BEFORE.. Wait, what? I must have missed that explanation.. and I took the quote at face value, my mistake. We spoke on the phone about replacing the 4 breakers, but I guess he only meant 2. Apparently the guys missed that explanation too, because they were prepared to do 4 breakers.

It's embarrassing to be taken advantage of like this! How was I supposed to correlate that two breakers sharing a neutral equated to only two breakers being operable? I know nothing about electricity. Robert had told me that 6 other breakers weren't going to be able to be upgraded.. why not explicitly say that for these additional 2? I relied on their spoken word.. to our detriment. Well, we'll pay and move on I suppose.

Tip to future users; get everything explicitly stated in the quote! I regret not going with another electrician who specifically wrote in 4 breakers.. at least I would have had some ground to argue on. Things get mixed up over the phone. I'd like to believe that this interaction was just sorely garbled and misunderstood and only my experience, but from what I can tell.. it was always supposed to be 4 breakers, and somehow turned into 2 with some fancy electrical language that I couldn't understand. They all seemed like really nice guys.

EDIT: Robert reached out to offer a discount for only doing 2 breakers and explained the misunderstanding more clearly. He also offered to help come out and diagnose an issue another electrician caused. He wasn't able to solve it yet though, so we're teetering at 3 stars for now.

I was looking for someone to put in 20 recessed lights with dimmer switches. I got several quotes and based on cost I got from the quotes I thought that I would have do 5 lights a year to be able to ever afford it. Turns out, I had called the wrong places because when I called Robert (he was last on my list) he gave me a fair, reasonable quote, which was less than 1/2 of what some of the white-glove lighting companies wanted to charge us for the same job. Thanks to Robert, we could finally afford the lights! His team had the job done in 2 days, cleaned up their mess, and were professional and courteous the whole time. I couldn't recommend them more. If you are looking for honest, reliable work at a price that is fair and reasonable, look no further than Robert and his crew!

I want to give a big shout-out to Konsker Electric! They are honest, hard-working guys who really know their stuff. Came out and quickly troubleshooted an issue I was having and fixed it the same day. Robert Konsker is a quality human who can help you with any electrical issue or project you need done. Contact him at 206-605-8575

Avoid.  Had them come out to look at smoke detectors that were going off periodically with no smoke present.  They couldn't find a problem, and replaced two smoke detectors.  (The problem persisted.)  They charged over $500 for less than an hour of work and $70 worth of hardware.