Clinton Township Lightning Protection System Installation

Kenny was very patient and thorough with his work. Price was very reasonable too. He even went up to the attic to inspection and make sure wires were not burnt up there.

Westborn came and check on the line that was cut by a tree that got struck by a lightning and fell down on the electrical lines. Westborn was able to identify the problem and recommend to contact DTE for the repairs since it was the mainline that was cut and DTE will fix the line for free.

Steve also does commercial electrical installations. The results are top quality. The entry for the new 200 amp service has a small covered top, like you would see at a store, rather than the wires just hanging from a hook. He worked "live" when doing that work, and it has the proper 2 earth grounds. Since them, a lightning strike occurred on an Oak tree beside my house, and it caused no electrical damage. Unfortunately my neighbor with older service lost their computer and some other electronics from a surge by the lightning strike. My house had been abandoned and foreclosed, and was a mess. Everything now works properly. Steve was a pleasure to work with. He took care to explain the basics of what he was doing. The work was completed properly and in a timely way. It has been over 2 months now and all the repairs work well.

I was very pleased on how the work went. Derek was professional, quick and cleaned up after the project. I would and have recommended Derek to other home owners and businesses

Very well. They were extremely responsive to our need for IMMEDIATE conversion to new system. Howard juggled the schedule to get us set up the next day. They were courteous and competent and cleaned up after. This installation was at a relative's house and is our third use of Alarm Systems Plus. The first was for our home many years ago, and two years ago we needed to have a new set up at our home after a lightning strike damaged the system.

The reason I am complaining is it said it is a whole house surge preventer, and there was an implication  that its a whole house surge preventer.  Well, it turns out that they put in a very, very low end unit that protects like the motor on your furnace and on your air condition system.  It does not protect your electronics.  I think it was a big deal, or some special deal.  I guess if I'd been told it did not cover surge prevention for electronics, I wouldn't of bought it.  Since the guy was here, you know,  I told him to put it in.  The guy was very nice and stuff, you know, but when I did some research after the fact as to what he put in, quite what I expected.  If I'd had known that ahead of time.  The point is that I didn't think the ad fully disclosed that the device they put in does not protect electronics.  That is my biggest concern, we have lightning and I get my cable tv boxes, but I get electronics fried all the time, thunderstorms yeah.  It was good quality.  They came out the next day.  The guy was quite up front with what he was doing.  As you know if you're going to pay for a service call for someone to come out, skimping on the quality of the equipment they use is not a good deal. Quite happy to pay $50 more for a better piece of equipment.

This work was done under the name of Mr. Sparky Electrical, but my Mr. Brierly himself.  I still have the same phone number in my phone and the whole reason I joined Angine's list was becasue I wish I'd had such a reference back when I chose Mr. Brierley thinking that the name was getting me a good Electrical contractor. The Flood LIght install actually went very well in terms of work and it is still operational, so that's pretty much all you could ask.   I will say that it was a bit strange that I had to provide him some Romex that I had left in my basement and that he had me go get the light from the store myself and that he came really late and had to come back another time because he showed up without sufficient tools to do the job.  I think I gave him my Percussion Drill to get through the wall too. The funniest part was that his buddy who came to "help" didn't at all, he just talked, sitting in my kitchen. I ended up helping. Anyway, the trully problematic part came when I asked him to diagnose and fix a bathroom GFCI line that had gone "dead" after a lightning storm.  It acutally showed really low voltage at the outlet, which was is at the end of a run from the box, outside the house in conduit and back in upstairs, because it was an addition when the upstairs was added. This is where I get really suspcious whether he knew any more about electrical than I did.  He could not find the Braker in the panel for the circuit, he could not trace the circuit upstairs, had not diagnosis of the low voltage provided and generally just scrached his head.  He actually basically said, I don't know what to do!!!  W**?    Having just encountered a similar situation at my Rental house, I discovered corrosion in teh Breaker Box which reduces contact area and provided present but low voltage.. I fixed that situation and I suspect I can re run this whole line and solve the problem in my house now too.  I have been without power up there for all these years becasue this experience with him made me afraid to spend money on another Electrician.  I mean I asked to have the whole circuit re-run, which starts at the box, runs through conduit and back in to that one outlet. He just begged his way out the door like he was scared to do it and I figured that's a hint.  So, I let that job go. He charged me twice as much to fail to diagnose that circuit as he did to install the Flood light, which angered and confused me too, but I paid him because he came and I agreed to the charge beforehand, but I thought he was actually going to do something besides stand there, with not testers or tools and say " Uh, I don't know". He was a really nice guy, just seemed in over his head with diagnosis.

The service panel upgrade went smoothly -- it took two men and about 3.5 hours to get everything done. The bad circuit was a bigger hassle. They looked at it after the panel install on the first day and determined the problem was not just the outlet. At that point, they couldn't stay to do the work in the attic so they ran a temporary neutral and spliced it into the circuit back to the panel. That brought the circuit back up but even I knew it was not a good idea to leave things that way. They did recommend I get the attic problem fixed before they left the first day. After they left I wondered if I should have stopped them from doing that temporary splice and just left the circuit dead. (Would that have been any safer?) In any case I wasn't comfortable ignoring the problem in the attic so I scheduled a second service call. The same electrician returned. He arrived early and fixed the attic connections, replaced the 2nd outlet, and removed the temporary splice enclosing the splice in a junction box in the standard fashion. Overall they were courteous, answered all my questions and got the job done. I would definitely hire them again. They do work basically 9-5 on weekdays so I had to leave work on 3 different days (once for the estimate, twice for actual work.) However this was all stated up front so I can't really complain. And we got everything fixed before the wiring set my house on fire.