Power Up Electric Inc.

I cannot stress how much I really love these guys. It is always dangerous to revisit anything that was perfect for fear perfection won’t be achieved, yet I achieved perfection for a second time with Power Up who had done major work for me previously when I converted a room into a home office.

I digress: one night, apropos of nothing, a part of my home electric stopped working. The refrigerator wouldn’t run, an electrical circuit wouldn’t work and I was contemplating losing everything in my freezer/refrigerator, but found a working plug and ran it through extension, so I just had a problem and called an emergency electrician to come do the work. I didn’t understand a word of what he said, but he said he had rigged something and it ought to hold out It was a thousand bucks (well earned — he was under the house for three days) and I found out (although his explanations were impossible for a lay person to understand) that my house, originally built in 1947, and improved upon several times had some of the original wiring which wasn’t serving well and some new that wasn’t working well and it would probably hold up, unless it didn’t then all bets were off. I offered him a chance to bid on the full repair, and he came over, kept talking, and wasn’t heard from again.

So I wrote Frank and the Power Up team who had done a remarkable job previously (see my other review). Best thing I ever did. It wasn’t cheap, but my whole house was brought up to code and I have every reason to believe my biggest electrical problem here may be a burnt-out bulb. Thorough — he brought a crew of 4 and it was about ten days of work, did everything to perfection — installed two new big TVs, one in a room that had never been wired for TV, rewired everything, put a new hood in over the grill (advising me on how to get the right one), made everything invisible.

But the real kicker, beyond them always showing up on time, always walking me through the days work and the work remaining (it’s a very noisy process so I was, to be honest, losing my mind) cleaning up every day — laying ground cover everyplace. But I forgot the real kicker — they see this through — they have come over three times since completion to help me figure out some of the stuff, to get to a(n outdoor motion sensing) light that got overlooked in the original bid, charging me only for the fixture itself, putting in a ring doorbell (which I decided to do midway through the work) and seeing every aspect through. Frank has said that he’s basically on call for any issues for a year, and he’s one of the few people I totally believe will see that through. Hopefully, I won’t need him again (nice guy, though, I’ll miss him), but I KNOW without a doubt, that if I do, he’ll be here.

This is electrical work, though, and I’m a dunce and don’t want any surprises with it. I will be using him again to complete a room here, but I wouldn’t hesitate to call him again no matter what. With electrical you get what you pay for, and I feel very, very satisfied that I was able to return to Power Up.

(And God laughed — the day after they finished, we had a lighting strike and power surge which froze my router completely — Frank was out after I replaced the router to make sure everything was taken care of. Just sayin’ this is where you want to be for major electrical work).

By Ken Arled |Google Review