C.S.T. Electric Corporation

C.S.T. Electric Corporation is a small electrical outfit run out of Peabody, handling panel upgrades, rewiring, generator hookups, landscape lighting, and EV charger installs for homes and businesses across the North Shore. The company says it's called Peabody home since 2012, founded by a master electrician who'd previously worked for larger electrical firms before going out on his own; the crew today is described as electricians and journeymen who've stuck around since the early days. Reviews are thin in count but lopsided in tone. A Google page with just seven ratings still averages 4.4 stars, and one name keeps surfacing across them: Chris, the owner, praised repeatedly for being responsive, easy to reach, and careful about leaving a clean job site — on jobs ranging from a single outlet repair to a full home rewiring. The listing on BestProsInTown backs that up, describing the work as professional and efficient. It's a consistent picture, but a small one: a handful of reviews spread thin across a handful of sites, not hundreds stacked on one platform. Its BBB file carries an A+ letter grade, though the business has never pursued BBB accreditation, and the file shows no complaints on record — but also no customer reviews there to weigh against that grade. Worth asking about directly: sources don't agree on how long the company's actually been operating. Its own site says 2012; a 2020 directory write-up claims over 30 years of service to the area; BBB's file implies something closer to two decades. The MA Master Electrician credential and the Lynn Vocational Technical Institute training are the company's own claims, with no independent license lookup here to confirm current standing. For a straightforward job — a panel upgrade, an EV charger, a rewire — the consistency of the praise, thin as the sample is, is a reasonable sign, and the Peabody Chamber of Commerce listing points to a business with actual roots in town rather than a fly-by-night operation. Given how few reviews there are to go on, it's worth asking for a couple of recent references before handing over a bigger project.