Ilias Bintas Licensed Electrician

Ilias Bintas Licensed Electrician — also operating as IB Electric LLC, or IBE Boston — works out of 469 Albany St in Boston's South End. The company's own site describes a mix of residential, commercial, and industrial electrical work alongside security systems (access control, burglar and fire alarms) and smart-home automation. Forty-four reviews have piled up across five sites since 2023 — Google alone puts him at 4.7 from 41 ratings, with directory aggregators citing 4.9 elsewhere and Thumbtack landing at 4.3 from six ratings. The pattern in most of them is speed: a store near Copley Place lost power in February and had it back up within hours of one phone call, and another customer that same month had an outage fixed in about 20 minutes. A restaurant in Copley Square brought him in for a security-camera job and he worked around business hours — early mornings and after close — to avoid disrupting service. That responsiveness shows up again on smaller jobs: breaker swaps, outlet fixes, a bathroom light, a camera system, a TV mounted over a mantel that other electricians said couldn't be done without cutting into the wall. Customers who've called him more than once mention the same things — he explains the problem before fixing it, and he cleans up after himself. The trouble shows up on bigger jobs. A review from this April describes hiring "Ilias Bintas / IBE Boston" in January for a full panel rewiring, breaker replacements, fire alarm installation, EV chargers, and basement lighting — $18,600 paid across several invoices, and three months later the fire alarms still weren't in, the panel work was incomplete, no permit had been pulled, and calls were going unanswered for weeks. A review from May describes a similar outcome on another job, calling the $18,000 charged for incomplete work a scam. It isn't an isolated complaint — the fuller review history has more than one account like it. The split lines up with the size of the job. A same-day repair, a camera install, a single fixture — those customers come back and hire him again. A multi-trade project with a permit and a real timeline is where the record gets shaky. Anyone booking something bigger than a quick fix should get a written schedule, a permit timeline, and payment milestones in writing before work starts, and should ask directly how the last large panel job actually finished.