Alfeo Electrical Co

Alfeo Electrical Co is Joseph Alfeo's own shop — a one-man Waltham operation that's been doing electrical work since 1984, with 280 permitted projects on file and 41 of them in the past three years alone. The permit record reads like a residential electrician's bread and butter: kitchen and bathroom rewiring, hard-wired smoke and CO detectors, heat-pump and mini-split hookups, 200-amp service upgrades, recessed lighting, panel replacements — spread across Belmont, Brookline, Chestnut Hill, Somerville, and towns further out. His Massachusetts electrician license (#16023) is active, verified against the state registry. A Reddit thread from earlier this month turned up a direct recommendation from someone who's had him back to the house a few times, calling him knowledgeable, communicative, and fair on billing. Worth knowing before calling: the licensing picture on directory sites is muddled — BuildZoom lists the same license number under two different types with conflicting status (one page shows it active, another shows an expiration back in 2022), and separately flags a City of Newton electrical-contractor registration as inactive and at one point cancelled. None of that touches the registry-verified active license above, but it's tangled enough to be worth asking about directly. The BBB lists the business as not accredited and 'Not Rated' for lack of information, not for any complaint history. For straightforward residential electrical work — a panel upgrade, new lighting, a rewire — this is a long-tenured, single-operator shop with a real permit history behind it.