Jireh Electric

My heater was tripping a breaker and stops frequently, Israel Vargas , the master electrician/Owner of Jireh Electric was contacted through Angies list, and was quick to respond, ( of course when he showed up he charged $135). He diagnosed a circuit overload and decided to upgrade a wire and breaker in the panel feeding the heater. I trusted he knew what he was doing, and I agreed. He did his job, and charged $575 on top of the previous $135 ( total $710). His crew left a big hole in the side of the house , wide enough to pass a little rat from it. I spotted that myself, and he was apologetic and fixed it the next day. Couple days later the heater stopped working, and i had to examine the site myself, and noted sparking breaker in a different panel that was feeding the panel he worked on and tripping it. I took a video, and texted/called him multiple times to come back and rectify the issue, but he decided to ignore all my calls and texts. then i threatened him with a state complaint , and he decided to answer my calls, claiming he was out of the country in the time being. That showed his lack of integrity and professionalism. I got 2 other electricians to correct the issue and in two separate occasions and different times they both suggested that the work done by Israel was not needed, and the problem was not going to be fixed by his re-wiring, and i am lucky the house did not catch on fire due to his misdiagnosis and ignorance. A state complaint is been filed against him. I would not recommend for the simplest job. and i would suggest for Angie's list to verify their recommendation for their professionals.

Israel was quick to respond for the service call and quick to bill his $135 service fee. he diagnosed the problem as circuit overload for my furnace, and charged me to change the correlating wire and breaker additional $575. ( total paid $710). only to discover 3 day later that the problem was not fixed, and he in fact made the wrong diagnosis,. That would be an honest mistake if he could return my calls/texts asking him to correct the issue, but in no vain. His work was promised on paper to have a labor and material warranty for 1 year. His lack of response indicated lack of integrity, and irresponsibility. I would not hire that man again for a change of a toy battery.

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Just great

They were very responsive when I called. They worked quickly and even waited while I went to the store to pick up an additional smoke alarm that I had neglected to purchase. They were professional and easy to work with. My only complaint is that they did not ask what I wanted to do with the partially used 9 volt batteries in my old smoke alarms. They removed them from the old alarms, but they weren't in the box of trash with everything else. I would have saved a few to use in alarm clocks, etc. Cost breakdown was $20 per alarm and $45 to install new fixture.