For most of us, serious electrical work should be left to professionals. If you don't know what you're doing, making electrical repairs and improvements can be a dangerous business. Unfortunately, our ratings show that some of the local outfits just aren't up to the task. However, we did find several area electrical contractors who can help.

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Sample Subscriber Comments/Reviews About Electricians

CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).

As You Can See Below, Some Electricians Get High Praise from Their Customers. Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Electricians.

• Subscriber from BLUE BELL, PA wrote Another Electrician: Used them twice, promptly returned calls, arrived on time, and delivered quality work........
• Subscriber from WILMINGTON, DE wrote Another Electrician: I would recommend Bill Furry to anyone. He meets all the requirements of a licensed..........
• Subscriber from FT WASHINGTON, PA wrote Another Electrician: Wouldn't provide estimate before or after completing work. Used 3 people for a minor job..........
• Subscriber from BRYN MAWR, PA wrote Another Electrician: I will use them exclusively based on the quality of the first two jobs we..........
• Subscriber from WILLOW GROVE, PA wrote Another Electrician: A pleasure........
• Subscriber from WASHINGTON CROSSING, PA wrote Another Electrician: They always try to sell more services than I want and they charge a ton;..........
• Subscriber from WAYNE, PA wrote Another Electrician: Very high quote initially - seemed to be checking to see if I would take..........
• Subscriber from WILMINGTON, DE wrote Another Electrician: Very courteous, reliable and quality service. Call him and he actually calls you back!.......
• Subscriber from PHILADELPHIA, PA wrote Another Electrician: I called company on 3 other occasions always helped me. Last time I used the..........
• Subscriber from PHILADELPHIA, PA wrote Another Electrician: Far too expensive for what they do, what should have cost about $100, I ended..........
• Subscriber from NARBERTH, PA wrote Another Electrician: They rewired a sconce which fell apart on the wall a year later and they..........
• Subscriber from SEWELL, NJ wrote Another Electrician: I called and got a call back within 2 days and he was scheduled to..........
• Subscriber from CHALFONT, PA wrote Another Electrician: A dependable and low cost electrician........
• Subscriber from HADDONFIELD, NJ wrote Another Electrician: We had sevice panel replaced almost 2 years ago. We had a problem last month..........
• Subscriber from CHADDS FORD, PA wrote Another Electrician: Reliable and stands by his work. I can't say enough good things about him........
• Subscriber from LANSDALE, PA wrote Another Electrician: Pride in work, follow up call to check for satisfaction, reasonably priced.......
• Subscriber from WOODLYN, PA wrote Another Electrician: We contacted this contractor for an estimate on several electrical items we wanted to have..........
• Subscriber from LANSDALE, PA wrote Another Electrician: After calling for service I never heard from them until a week and a half..........
• Subscriber from GLEN MILLS, PA wrote Another Electrician: Friendly and professional........
• Subscriber from WILMINGTON, DE wrote Another Electrician: the price for the service was way overrated, but due to desparation had to use..........
• Subscriber from RUNNEMEDE, NJ wrote Another Electrician: They charge too much for the services provided. Get estimates with other electricians before choosing..........
• Subscriber from HAVERTOWN, PA wrote Another Electrician: There were a couple small glitches we had questions about and he came right back..........
• Subscriber from HOCKESSIN, DE wrote Another Electrician: Good, professional electrician. I used him for the first time today, 8 August 2008 and..........
• Subscriber from WILMINGTON, DE wrote Another Electrician: Outside work done satisfactorally while we were away and at the lowest quote.......
• Subscriber from LANSDALE, PA wrote Another Electrician: I called Lowry for an estimate on a rather simple job. The service was first..........
• Subscriber from DOWNINGTOWN, PA wrote Another Electrician: Quick response and responsible follow-through. Quality workmanship and attentive service. Fair pricing. Superior experience all-around!.......
• Subscriber from NEWTOWN, PA wrote Another Electrician: Very nice guy. Great quality work. Trustworthy. Highly recommend........
• Subscriber from PHILADELPHIA, PA wrote Another Electrician: Very good, very reasonable people.......
• Subscriber from BEAR, DE wrote Another Electrician: Cost lot more than I was led to expect.......