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Berkeley Electric
Berkeley Electric: Clear pricing, clean installs, trusted for old-home rewiring.
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Electrician
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Berkeley Electric: Clear pricing, clean installs, trusted for old-home rewiring.
Berkeley Electric serves Berkeley, CA from 909 Camelia St, delivering professional electrical services such as full rewiring, lighting upgrades, subpanel and main panel installations with a focus on safety and clarity. Customers praise honest assessments, transparent fixed-unit pricing, and meticulous cleanup. The team coordinates permits and inspections with PG&E and the City, and is noted for neat, respectful work on knob-and-tube projects and older homes.
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Complete electrical rewiring services, including knob and tube removal, to ensure safety and modern compliance for your home.
Upgrade and replacement of electrical panels, from main to subpanels, for improved capacity and reliability.
Professional installation of overhead lighting, fixtures, and cans with expert advice to optimize your space.
Full handling of city permitting and scheduling of inspections to ensure all work meets local codes and regulations.
Diagnostic and repair services for outlets, switches, and other electrical components with transparent pricing.
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Overall rating
Alan Lee
Berkeley Electric did an excellent job on a full knob and tube rewiring project. We appreciated their timeliness, expertise, and great work. Would highly recommend their team!
Aaron Walker
Berkeley Electric is a great company. They did a whole house rewire of my home. The entire process went smoothly. There was always clear communication, attention to detail, respect for the home, and quality work. I strongly recommend them.
Dena Kefallinos
Berkeley Electric performed excellent work on our home. We truly appreciate their craftsmanship and professionalism throughout the process. They removed all knob and tube, rewired, installed a new light fixture, and moved and upgraded our panel - all while we were working from home with a toddler running around the house. Everyday they set up working areas, patched holes, and cleaned up after themselves. They also coordinated with PG&E and the City. We highly recommend them.
P Slater
Berkeley Electric replaced all my old screw-in fuses with new, updated electrical panels. It was a complicated job, given the realities of a very old three story house. They not only did an excellent job, every member of the team was great to work with: responsive, professional, clearly competent and personable. They left their workspaces neat and clean at the end of each day too. Just an all-around good company, and one I can enthusiastically recommend.
Tim Kuehn
Berkeley Electric did an amazing job on a major rewiring, lighting, subpanel install, and main panel upgrade. We will definitely hire them the next time we have an electrical project! Zalman was a pleasure during the initial assessment. After a poor experience with another bigger company, I particularly appreciated his honesty, evidenced by some things he *didn't* do: he didn't try to scare me or overuse industry jargon, and he didn't try to oversell (he actually talked me down from 6 cans to 4 for overhead lighting in one room). The work itself took a team of ~6 about a week and a half to complete, working long days. They taped heavy duty paper to the floors and covered all furniture with painter's plastic every day, and removed it and vacuumed at the end of every day. When the work was completed, they also cleanly patched all the walls they opened at no additional expense. Larry and Ben were both communicative about the decisions I needed to make, not making any assumptions without clearing it with me. They let me know whenever changes from the original plan cropped up (e.g. when knob and tube was unexpectedly found in a room we thought was a more recent addition). The team adjusted working hours to be longer so that they could deliver on their original ETA, even when we increased the scope of the work. A few other things that make Berkeley Electric stand out: - They were willing to do dirty work, such as running wire through an attic with blown-in cellulose, which another company we talked to wouldn't do unless we hired an insulation contractor to remove it first. - Totally transparent pricing model, where each "unit" (light, switch, outlet, etc.) was a fixed price, so that when we inevitably decided to throw in additional work, we knew exactly how much our costs would increase by. - They handled city permitting and scheduling of inspections.
