Good Guy Electric and Solar

From the day I contracted with Good Buy Electric (Dec. 2024) to upgrade my home's electrical panel, until the job was finally finished, was 6 months. Yes, 6 months! It was a 3 month wait before he was able to make time to begin the install. The installation of the new panel on March 4 went reasonably well, the inspector came the next day and it passed, but then I had to wait until April 17 for him to finally return to make the connections. Since he had not prepared things ahead of time, we were without power all day while he made the connections from the old panel to the new one. The connections were rather messy, too, as he used twist-nuts for all of the many wires. Using a terminal strip would have been much neater. As he failed to properly label the wires before routing them through, we ended up with 3 dead circuits at the end - the electric dryer outlet, which I also use to charge our electric car, the hot water heater, and one bathroom had no power. Not to mention, he accidentally shocked himself when he accidentally started to connect two wires on opposite phases while the circuits were live. He said he would return the next day to correct those dead circuits, but he got busy and didn't come back for another 2 weeks. Meanwhile I got tired of waiting and went ahead and fixed the problem myself. Fortunately I do have some electrical understanding, and was able to correct it. I undid all his splices, did continuity tests on the wires, and reconnected them correctly. The original panel still had no cover on it - the wires inside were exposed. Finally, in June they gave me a cover to put over the hole in the old panel. That's 6 months from start to finish, and they messed up and I had to fix it. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this electrician, as he clearly does not have the competence or safety mindset that is needed in this line of work and you can expect a half-done project and months of waiting.

Edit April 5 2026: Recently my EV charger stopped working, and I found the wire had been barely hanging on to the breaker. I'm amazed it lasted that long. Yesterday, the contractor discovered my review and instead of taking it as constructive criticism he threatened me trying to get me to take it down! Turns out "Good Guy" is not so good after all. For full transparency, I've added screenshots of the texts so you can read it for yourself. I've also added photos of the work - you can see the messy wire connections in the subpanel, and in the main panel you'll notice a big hole near the bottom that he made - apparently he drilled the hole in the wrong location and had to redo it but never plugged the hole. You might also notice the burn mark on the hole where he shorted a wire while working, and some wire nuts showing he had to lengthen some wires that he had cut too short. I'm sure any experienced electrician can spot even more errors.

Excellent service and very professional!!

On time professional excellent work highly recommend