Herlihy Electric

Fifty-six permits, and almost all of them within a few miles of home. Herlihy Electric is a small Marblehead electrical outfit — five people by the count in its BBB file, run by Charles Herlihy, with a second Charles C. Herlihy listed as an owner beside him on BuildZoom, apparently father and son. BBB puts the start of the business at January 2003. What you can actually see of the work is the permit trail, and it is tightly concentrated. Marblehead residential electrical jobs run through 2021, 2022 and 2023 — Mohawk Rd, Ocean Ave, Bennett Rd, Wyman Rd, Alexander Circle, Ware Lane, Lattimer St twice, Humphrey St, Beacon St — including three adjacent Mariners Lane houses permitted on a single day in October 2021. The jobs that carry a description are small and specific: wiring a new pad-mounted generator in Topsfield in 2023 for $1,900, and back in 2018, wiring lights and woodworking equipment for a Beverly storage unit. Two outliers are bigger — a $40,695 Manchester electrical permit in 2020 that went alongside replacement windows and new siding, and a $60,000 Rockport building permit in February 2025 covering bath renovations and some window replacement. Nothing customer-written goes with any of it. The BBB profile carries no reviews and the BuildZoom page carries none either, and BBB prints no letter grade — its file states it does not have sufficient information to issue a rating, which is a statement about that file rather than a finding about the work. Separately, the business is not BBB accredited; the two are not the same thing. The pace has also cooled: of those 56 permitted projects, eight fall in the past three years. And the two pages disagree on where to find the company — BuildZoom lists 6 William Rd, the BBB file 16 Anderson St #102, with the phone number appearing only on BBB. If you are in Marblehead and want an electrician who has already been inside houses on your street, that permit trail is a real argument for a call. Ask for recent references directly — with nothing published from past customers, what he can point to himself is what you have to go on.