Homelight Boston

Call Homelight Boston on a Friday night and someone may well be at your door first thing Monday. A May 2024 customer needed hardwired smoke detectors ahead of a home inspection: Josh arrived Monday at 7AM and, over two days, put in seven hardwired detectors, seven battery ones and a new service panel. That is the kind of job this South Boston shop was built for — its site says founder Paul Eastman, a master electrician since 1995, started the company after more than a decade in the trade to take on the small jobs other outfits skip, and describes the work as small-to-mid-size residential and commercial repairs, troubleshooting and upgrades across Boston, Greater Boston and the South Shore. Speed is what customers keep writing about. A December 2025 review describes calling about misbehaving Lutron switches in a Boston apartment, a technician arriving within two hours, the problem solved two hours after that and explained in simple terms. A homeowner who wanted dimmers installed wrote in August 2025 that someone was at the house in under 24 hours. A July 2024 customer with a few dimmers and one light to swap was fit in the same afternoon; the electrician replaced a wall switch plate that broke during the install, and that customer wrote that the price quoted was the price paid. The larger work is there too. A May 2026 review describes Paul handling the scoping, quoting, permits and materials before Tony installed a sub panel and a dedicated sauna outlet. A July 2024 homeowner had the electrical in a 1960s house updated with modern lighting, outlets and switches; another had an EV charger put in that June; an April 2024 customer had recessed lighting run through a 1,000-square-foot South Boston condo. The written history runs back to 2008, and one person wrote in May 2024 that they had been sending clients to Homelight for over twenty years. Its Massachusetts electrician licence, number 2628, is active on the state registry, and the Better Business Bureau grades the company A+. Ratings sit at 5 stars from 53 Google ratings, 4.8 from 10 on Angi and 4.6 from 13 on Thumbtack. Paul takes the calls, and reviewers name the electricians who show up — Tony, Josh, Matthew — so ask who is coming and when. For a South Boston or Greater Boston homeowner who needs a circuit traced, a panel swapped, fixtures or an EV charger installed, this is a straightforward call, and the company itself frames its focus as small-to-mid-size jobs rather than ground-up work. Confirm the scope and the price before the work starts — several customers wrote that the quote they were given was what they paid.