Bell Electric Incorporated

The work itself was standard. The issue was that I had asked the owner of Bell Electric on 2 separate occasions if anything would need to be done by me or the power company in regards to temporary shutting off service so the electricians could work. I was informed by the owner John Bell that the electric company did not need to do anything. Bell electric then had their own electricians disconnect the service lines from the power pole to my house, instead of calling the power company to do it properly and correctly. Turns out, the power compay is the only one who can disconnect the wires from a power pole to a house, and not an electric company. This resulted in a $400 fine I am now in dispute with the electric company over Bell electric, whom stated they have upgraded many service panels in the Puget sound areas. Why would they not then inform me the power company would need to do the disconnect/reconnect? The power company informed me that the electricians from bell electric knew better, have done panel upgrades before and hand the power company disconnect the lines, and should have called the power company before touching anything. You would think that these issues would not arise with a company whom does this business regularly. I really feel this contractor did not care about standards and only wanted to be paid for work asap. I heard more then 3 times from various employees that times were tough, the employees of bell electric were broke, etc. The workers who came to complete the panel upgrade talked about the boss needing to charge more for jobs and stop trying to save every little piece of material from every job. They must not like his penny pinching. The work is par, nothing good, nothing too bad, but I would not recommend this service to anyone. Very unprofessional experience. Too costly and way too much hassle only to deal with a company whose work results in extra fines.

It was great!

John quickly diagnosed the problem and replaced the outlet with a socket that met code.  Additionally he consulted on a few other projects that we are considering.  Based on the very professional service we would use him for those projects.