Michael Mclaughlin

Michael Mclaughlin is an electrical outfit working out of Needham, MA, and the same story keeps repeating across its reviews: someone calls with a dead circuit or a fried switch, and a crew is out fast to fix it and explain the problem in plain terms. The written record runs from 2019 through a handful of more recent reviews in 2022 through 2025, and HomeAdvisor puts the average at 4.9 out of 5 across 33 ratings, 97% of them five stars. The specifics that come through are electrical, not general handyman work — panel and wiring upgrades, outlet and switch repairs, troubleshooting. In a 2019 review, a homeowner described losing half their home's power at midnight in the middle of winter; the crew arrived by noon and rewired around the outage until the utility company could fix the pole days later. Another 2019 review credits the crew with reusing an existing underground conduit rather than trenching a new run, and a third describes fixing a set of three-way switches that had stumped other work. More recent reviews from 2022 through 2025 hit the same notes — prompt communication, fair pricing, no unnecessary work — though the pace of written reviews has slowed noticeably since the 2019 run. The company is a HomeAdvisor Approved Pro, and the platform lists a trade license, #13214, expiring in July 2028, for the business — that's the directory's own record, not something checked against the state registry. Worth asking about directly: HomeAdvisor's own page gives two different tenures for the same business — 26 years under its business highlights, but 38 years in its written About text. For a straightforward electrical repair or a panel and wiring upgrade in the Needham area, the review history — concentrated a few years back but consistent in what it describes — points to an electrician who shows up, explains the fix, and gets the specific problem solved.