Matthew Benevides Electrician

Matthew Benevides is a New Bedford electrician people call when the wiring is old and the job is big — a house built in the late 1800s stripped of knob-and-tube and rewired, a full service upgrade the town inspector remarked on, an entire electrical system and breaker box replaced after lightning blew the service cable. Angi and HomeAdvisor put him at 16 years in the trade, locally owned at 43 Clifford Street; that is the profile's own account. Across 50 Angi ratings averaging 4.9, the detail that keeps surfacing is how quickly he shows up. In 2018 a customer called at 4:30 in the afternoon, had him there two hours later, and watched him replace the main breaker in ten minutes — he did not want to charge for it. A 2020 reviewer got a call back on a Sunday, an estimate the next day and the job the day after, while the company they had planned to use kept them waiting for weeks. The rewire customer in 2018 said he came by the same day and returned on Labor Day to keep the job moving. A contractor of 27 years wrote in 2019 that showing up when he says is what sets Matt apart, and that he stuck to his quote. The crew is small — Justin and Tito appear by name in 2020 reviews — and repeat customers describe updates to a 100-year-old house and multiple jobs on rental properties. The most recent written account, from January 2025, covers a natural-gas wall oven and cooktop converted to electric with substantial rewiring, arriving promptly for the preliminary work. Most of the written history is from 2018 through 2021. On licences: Angi and HomeAdvisor list trade licence #54936 through July 2028, and BuildZoom lists an electrician licence #22848 it marks active, along with a plumber licence and an inactive sheet-metal licence — the directories' listings, so confirm the number with the state board. Thumbtack and the Procore network list the same address under the name Apex Electrical Contractors, with Matthew Benevides as a team member. A strong call for old-house rewiring, service upgrades and panel work where responsiveness matters. Confirm the licence and which business name will be on the permit and the invoice.