AMERICAN ELECTRICAL

American Electrical sent us the company's "best" electrician. I was the coordinator for the project. This "best" guy, during the middle of a workday, disconnected a live branch circuit taking down a string of computers. Then, he did it again by shorting out some other wires. His comment "oh, no big deal, just a breaker". The job also included computer networking wiring (Ethernet). The man was utterly clueless about network wiring. He was rough with the delicate wires. He did the easy work first (rather than the important work), acting very much like he was on a paid-by-the-hour job (which it was). At one point he lost a pull string, and decided (it must have been quite logical to him) to cut a second brand new hole to get the wire through. Then, he made a third hole. And left an extra hole in the ceiling. And did any of them get patched? We never found out because we fired the firm mid-job. While it disrupted the project, the new people were much better. The only good spot about these folks was: during the planning and design stages the owner was quite willing to ignore electrical code violations. That may be good or bad, depending on your exact situation.