Heck Electric LLC

Heck Electric is a one-man-named electrical contractor on Stony Hill Rd in Wilbraham, owned by Hector L Ramos. The Better Business Bureau records the business as trading since 1996 and incorporated as an LLC in 2013 — thirty years — and it has been BBB Accredited since February 2017 with an A+ rating. Its licence is solid and independently checked. The Massachusetts state registry holds electrician licence number 21629 as active in the name of Hector L Ramos, and the same number appears on both the Better Business Bureau's and BuildZoom's records for the company, so three sources agree on it. What sets this contractor apart is volume and a very particular kind of work. BuildZoom counts 521 permitted projects and scores the company 103, in the top 10% of licensed Massachusetts contractors. Read the permits and a clear specialism appears: bringing older Springfield housing back into code. The jobs are things like repairing all electrical violations and swapping breakers for arc-fault types, replacing burning wiring and load centres in a basement, stripping wiring out of illegal basement bedrooms, removing knob-and-tube from a front porch, and protecting knob-and-tube in three apartments with dual-function breakers. Alongside those sit 200-amp service changes, meter re-gangs, exit signs and emergency lighting, and GFCI outlets over kitchen counters. Almost every permit is marked complete. The company's own service list is broader — wiring, breaker boxes, switches, new-construction wiring, panel upgrades, rewiring, generators, intercoms and smoke alarms. One gap worth knowing about: no customer has published a written review on any source, so everything above comes from the state registry, the bureau and permit records rather than from anyone describing how a job went. For a failed inspection, a violation notice, an old fuse-panel service or knob-and-tube in a multi-family, this is a contractor whose permit record shows exactly that work done repeatedly and signed off. Ask for a couple of recent references to fill the gap the reviews leave.