Drew McFarland Electrician

Drew McFarland is a one-electrician Malden operation (sometimes with a helper), and the read splits cleanly by era. The three most recent reviews, all from spring and early summer 2026, describe a responsive, careful operator — solving a 'messy ancient slipshod wiring issue' a previous electrician couldn't fix, in about three hours, and working with the existing wiring rather than pushing an unnecessary full rewire. The strongest praise across the record centers on how he handles a job: he shows up the same day for dead circuits, explains what's wrong before fixing it, and several reviewers mention he charged the lower end of a quoted price range rather than the higher one. A 2022 review describes him re-wiring three separate homes for the same customer, and a 2024 review describes a full electrical redo during a two-bathroom renovation. The record isn't uniform, though. Two older reviews raise a similar complaint from different angles: in a 2024 review, a customer wrote that he was hard to reach after leaving several messages with no response, and in a 2023 review, another described never getting a reply to a text. A more serious complaint from 2023 describes a circuit-breaker replacement where he installed an oversized 40-amp breaker in place of a 30-amp one, which knocked out power to the water heater; when the customer called back the same day, he declined to return without charging again for a second visit. None of that shows up in the most recent stretch, which reads like a return to the same-day, walk-you-through-it service the earlier positive reviews describe — but it's worth confirming any breaker or panel work gets fully tested before he leaves, and that a callback is included if something isn't right.