Castro Electric Corp

Castro Electric Corp, out of Stoneham, has one of the deepest and cleanest records in the category: 229 reviews since 2023 across eight platforms, the large majority five stars, including 226 five-star ratings on Google alone. The Better Business Bureau gives the company an A-. The jobs run from small fixes to full-scope projects. Chris replaced two bell boxes, GFCI outlets and a breaker while installing a video doorbell in one visit; another crew wired a home for a hot tub, then came back later to finish the exterior hookup. Rene and his team have installed EV chargers, put in recessed lighting for a basement home-gym build-out, and run new circuits for a landlord's overloaded home-office outlets. A residential general contractor's project manager says Castro is their regular electrician across multiple client jobs, and their clients "always give great feedback." The company also shows up for emergencies. In February 2026, a wet circuit breaker knocked out heat in an older home during a snowstorm; the crew made a temporary fix on the spot, tracked down the exact master breaker needed, then came back to install it and stop future water intrusion. When a fallen tree damaged a homeowner's weatherhead and killed power to the house, Rene assessed it on short notice and had power restored the same day. One commercial customer even had the team keep a restaurant's cooling running after hours on a Friday night. Reviewers keep naming the same handful of technicians — Rene, Chris, Mike, Max, Cole — and the same coordinator, Alma, for scheduling, which tracks with a company that has grown past a one-person operation while keeping its reviews consistent. Recurring themes: technicians clean up thoroughly (one reviewer noted a work area was vacuumed), communicate proactively by text, and in a few cases come back at no charge to double-check their own work. There's no documented complaint in the record. For anything electrical — a stuck breaker, a full panel job, an EV charger, or a middle-of-the-night emergency — Castro Electric's volume and consistency across nearly 230 reviews make it one of the better-documented options in the area; with that much demand, it's worth locking in a schedule early for anything not urgent.