Ja Electrical

In the middle of a 95-degree heat wave this August, a homeowner watched Ja Electrical swap a 100-amp service for a 200-amp one, replace a feeder cable down the side of the house that rodents had chewed through, and clean up afterward. "Everybody was amazed at the workmanship," they wrote — and mentioned the price twice. That is the shape of this Everett shop: small, hands-on, and mostly about power. BuildZoom's permit records for Ja Electrical Inc — 7 Murray St, Everett, owner listed as Jose Alves Filho — run to 51 projects, mostly modest residential and commercial rewires, panel swaps and service upgrades scattered around Greater Boston. It is a father-and-son operation, at least on that August job. The written praise is consistent but sparse. Four Google reviews, all five stars: the service upgrade this summer, and three from August 2024 that call the company professional and easy to work with, one of them from a franchise operator citing the price-to-quality ratio. Nobody has posted a complaint, and nobody has written about a large or complex job either. BuildZoom's page lists an electrician licence and three other Massachusetts licences for the company. That is the directory's own record, not a confirmation — those listings routinely attach to the wrong business or go stale. A sensible call for panel and service-upgrade work, or a rewire in an older two-family, where the permit history and the one detailed review both land. Ask for the master electrician's licence number and a certificate of insurance, confirm which Everett address the company works from, and if your job is larger than a service upgrade, ask for two recent references of that size — the public record does not yet reach that far.