Harland Electric is a family-run electrical contractor that has been trading since 1996 and works out of Harvard with a long-standing Littleton address. Bill Harland, Jr., a firefighter and EMT with the Littleton Fire Department, started it in March 1996; his brother Andy joined in 2001, earned his master's licence in 2007, and bought the business from Bill in April 2024. The state registry lists Massachusetts electrician licence 21030 as active in Andrew S Harland's own name, which is the owner of record - a credential that checks out rather than one merely advertised.
The work homeowners describe is ordinary residential electrical: panel replacements, service upgrades, undercounter and recessed lighting, ceiling fixtures and chandeliers, GFCI and breaker faults, baseboard heaters, pool and hot tub wiring, and standby generators, for which the company is an authorized Generac servicing dealer.
What stands out across the written record is the crew. Reviewers name the same pairs year after year - Tom and Ryan, Kevin and Derek, Jeremy and Jacob, Hugo and Tom - and describe them cleaning up, demonstrating what they installed, and working around children. In a December 2022 review a homeowner said the crew spotted an outdoor flood light that a previous electrician had declared fine and identified it as a fire hazard, replaced the light and wiring, and then told them unprompted that they had overpaid. A 2018 reviewer described the owner arriving himself when a replacement baseboard heater turned out to have a mislabelled wiring diagram.
Speed cuts both ways. A 2018 reviewer said the company made the extra effort to come the same day when smoke and carbon monoxide detectors were shut off, and did not charge the emergency fees other companies do; another the same year said a small job was fitted into the same-day schedule. But a 2020 reviewer, while rating them five stars, said the one drawback is that calls sometimes take a day or two to return, and a 2018 reviewer said it took a while to get service scheduled - though they put that down to the company being busy because it is good.
One thing worth reading correctly: the company appears in a law firm's list of construction disputes as the plaintiff, Harland Electric, Inc. v. Spitz, a 2019 collection case it brought against a house flipper who did not pay for completed work. That is the company chasing a debt, not a complaint against it.
Angi publishes 4.9 from 130 ratings and the Better Business Bureau has accredited the business since 2006 with an A+ grade. The caution is age rather than content: nineteen of the twenty-six readable accounts predate the last five years, so ask for a recent reference on whatever you are hiring for, and confirm the licence number with the state.