Alfeo Electrical Co

Alfeo Electrical Co is a one-man electrical shop at 85 Orange St in Waltham, run by Joe Alfeo. The Massachusetts register confirms electrician licence 16023 as active with Joseph A Alfeo as the holder of record — the same person the Better Business Bureau lists as the owner — so the credential is his own, not a company badge borrowed from elsewhere. The BBB file records the business as started on 1 January 1984, 42 years in business, with one employee. The strongest independent read on the work comes from an August 2026 r/CambridgeMA thread asking for an electrician. A commenter gave his name and number and wrote that they had had him work in their home a few times, adding that he knows his trade, communicates, and bills fairly. That is one voice, so treat it as a lead rather than a verdict. The permit record is where the depth is. Building-permit data shows 280 permitted projects overall and 41 in the last three years, almost all residential electrical: kitchen and bathroom rewiring, hard-wired smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors, heat-pump and mini-split wiring, 200-amp service upgrades, recessed lighting and panel replacements. Those permits are spread across Belmont, Brookline, Chestnut Hill, Jamaica Plain, Dorchester, Somerville, Newburyport and Maynard, so the working radius is wider than the Waltham address suggests. The typical permit is small — around $3,500 — which fits a one-person shop taking domestic jobs rather than large fit-outs. One thing to read carefully: BuildZoom's licence panel prints the same number, 16023, twice under two different headings — as a state-verified electrician licence active as of May 2026, and as an unverified City of Newton electrical-contractor registration with a stated expiry of July 2022 — and separately shows a City of Newton registration 37489 as inactive and once cancelled. Those municipal entries are the directory's claims about town registrations, not the state licence, and BuildZoom itself says to check with the city. The state licence is the one that has been verified here. The BBB page shows no star rating and is marked 'Not Rated' because BBB says it has insufficient information, which is a gap in BBB's file rather than a judgment on the work. For a Waltham-area homeowner with a defined job — a panel, a heat-pump circuit, smoke detectors, some rewiring — this is a credentialled long-standing local electrician. Ask for the licence number in writing, confirm 16023 with the Board of State Examiners of Electricians, and ask whether a town permit is needed for your job.