J. Freire Electrical Contractor

J. Freire Electrical Contractor is a one-person electrical shop at 177 Grinnell Street in New Bedford, run by Jose Freire. Its Massachusetts electrician licence, #21294, is verified active against the state registry in the name JOSE R FREIRE - the credential that matters most for this trade, and one that is confirmed here rather than merely claimed. What the business actually does is documented in permits rather than in customer writing. Building-permit records show 36 permitted projects, ten of them in the last three years, and they are almost entirely electrical work of the kind a homeowner or small landlord hires for. In September 2025 the shop pulled an $8,600 permit in Taunton to rough and snake wire two bedrooms on each of two floors, fit smoke detectors in the bedrooms and common areas, wire the common-area lighting and install a bathroom fan. In January 2025 it roughed in a single-family house in Brockton and installed a 100 amp service, and the same month replaced thermostats in Norwell. In February 2023 it took over a Taunton job from a previous electrician to wire a second-floor apartment and add a common-area meter. The typical permit value is around $1,650, so the everyday work is small jobs with the occasional multi-thousand-dollar rewire. The Better Business Bureau grades the business A+ without accreditation and opened its file in November 2022, listing one employee and Jose Freire as owner. BuildZoom scores it 98, putting it in the top 16% of the licensed Massachusetts contractors it tracks, on the strength of that verified licence. The business also turns up in a New Bedford community gala programme among the local supporters listed alongside the city's officials and the Consulate General of Cape Verde. Two things are worth raising. There is no customer feedback anywhere - BuildZoom holds no reviews, the BBB profile carries none, and no rating exists on any source here, which is why no score is published on this page. And the licence picture beyond the main electrician credential is untidy: BuildZoom also lists a Home Improvement Contractor registration, #205140, as inactive and records that the state noted it as at one point cancelled, plus two City of Newton electrical contractor licences in the same condition, and a further Massachusetts licence it could not verify whose last known expiry was in 2016. For small residential electrical work in the New Bedford, Taunton and Brockton area this is a licensed, permit-active electrician with a steady recent record. Ask for references from recent customers directly, since none exist in writing, and confirm the current status of any registration beyond the electrician licence if your job needs one.