Four steps, no surprises.
Text or call
A photo of the panel, the fixture, or the burn mark tells us more than a paragraph. Fastest way to get a real answer.
Look at it
Small jobs get priced over text. Anything real gets a walk-through, because quoting electrical sight-unseen is how people get burned.
Written number
Line-item pricing — material and labor separated, so you can see exactly what you are paying for and what is optional.
Do it and clean up
Permit pulled if the work needs one, panel labeled, drywall dust vacuumed, and photos of anything now buried in a wall.
Why the walk-through matters
Small jobs — a dead outlet, a fixture swap, a dimmer that buzzes — get priced from a photo over text, free, usually the same day. Anything at the panel, inside a wall, or structural gets looked at in person first. The number you get after a walk-through is the number the job costs — not an estimate that grows once the drywall opens.
What the written number looks like
Line items, with material and labor separated. You see what the parts cost, what the time costs, and which lines are optional. If the scope changes once a wall is open — and in older houses it sometimes honestly does — the change gets priced and agreed before it is carried out, never discovered on the invoice.
Permits, handled
Panel upgrades, new circuits and service changes are permitted work. The permit gets pulled, the inspector gets met, and the correction list — if there is one — is ours to clear, not yours. When the work does not need a permit, you hear that too.
“If it isn't right, we come back.”
Something we did stops working the way it should? Tell Shane and he comes back and makes it right at no charge. You should not have to negotiate with an electrician about a switch that quit two weeks after he left.
Start with step one
One picture and one sentence is enough to get a first answer moving — and it costs nothing to ask.
The work this process runs on
Send a photo. Get a real answer.
Text is fastest, and a photo quote is free. Call if it is urgent, if you smell something burning, or if a breaker will not reset.
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