James J Carleton Electric LLC

James J Carleton Electric LLC works out of 106 Gay Street in Needham, doing residential and commercial electrical work across Greater Boston — small repairs and lighting upgrades through to complete installations and rewiring of older houses. The licence checks out cleanly, which is the thing worth checking for an electrician. Massachusetts electrician licence 20026 is registry-verified active and the registry's holder of record is JAMES J CARLETON — the same James Carleton the company's own site names as the master electrician leading it, and the same owner BuildZoom lists. The site credits him with over two decades of experience, which is a claim about his career rather than a dated company history. The permit record is the most substantial evidence of what he actually does: BuildZoom lists 206 permitted projects, 13 of them in the past three years, almost all electrical, at a typical permit size of about $4,000, on jobs in Belmont, Weston and Milton. In September 2025 a commenter on r/QuincyMa said they had used Jim Carleton Electric for a large renovation project and called the work excellent, and gave his email and phone in the same breath. The written review record is dated: the single review on file is an anonymous five-star line from August 2014 reading 'Great workers and amazing service'. That is a real, dated account rather than a missing one, but it is twelve years old and gives no detail. Before hiring, ask for two or three recent local references — the permit history says the work is steady, but almost none of it has been written up by the homeowners.