Herlihy Electric

Fifty-six permitted jobs and not a single customer review anywhere. Herlihy Electric is a five-person electrical shop in Marblehead, run by Charles Herlihy, and its BBB file says the business started on the first day of 2003 — twenty-three years in the same town. The work is local and it is almost entirely electrical. The permit record runs street by street through Marblehead — Mariners Lane, Ocean Avenue, Humphrey Street, Beacon Street, Rainbow Road — with occasional jobs out to Rockport, Topsfield, Manchester and Beverly, and a generator wired in Topsfield in 2023. If you live in Marblehead, there is a reasonable chance this crew has already worked on a house on your block. What no one has done is write about it. There are no reviews on BBB, BuildZoom or anywhere else reached here, and BBB lists the business as Not Rated for exactly that reason — it says it does not have enough information to issue a rating. BBB also notes the business is not accredited, which is a separate thing and not a mark against it. The licensing needs a direct question. BuildZoom lists three Massachusetts records under this name — an Electrical Business registration, an electrician's licence and a construction supervisor licence — and describes each as having been cancelled at some point, and on that basis prints an alert saying no active licence is on file. None of that was confirmed against the state registry here, and it sits oddly against a permit history of town-issued electrical permits, which municipalities generally will not grant without a licensed electrician of record. Directory licence data is frequently wrong, so treat it as a question, not a finding. Before hiring, ask Charles Herlihy directly for his master electrician licence number and the company's electrical business registration number, then check both yourself at the Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Electricians — it takes a minute and it settles the one real open question about an otherwise long-running local shop. Ask for two or three neighbours' names as references too, since there is nothing written to go on.