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Mt Auburn Electric Co is a three-person electrical shop at 8 Warren Street in Cambridge, run by Joe Ianelli. The Better Business Bureau opened its file in 2018, dates the business to 1992, and then declines to grade it at all, saying it does not have enough information to issue a rating. The licence record is what needs sorting out before anything else. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts electrician licence for the company, #6515, carrying an expiration date of 31 July 1987, and says it re-checked in June 2026 and found it expired; the matching Electrical Business record shows as inactive and at one point cancelled. BuildZoom's score for the company is zero, with the explicit note that no active licence is on file. Those are BuildZoom's records rather than a registry check made here, and they sit oddly against the rest: a 1987 expiration predates the 1992 start date the BBB publishes, and the two directories place the company in different towns - Cambridge and Watertown. Massachusetts requires a current licence for electrical work, so this is not a detail to take on trust. Ask which licence number the company works under today and verify it yourself with the Board of State Examiners of Electricians. Neither profile carries a customer review to weigh alongside it, so references you can call matter more here than usual.
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Mt Auburn Electric Co. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
Standard receptacle swaps — a new dedicated circuit is a bigger job ($350–$750).
Flush mounts, pendants, chandeliers — hung on existing boxes.
Estimated range
$530 – $1,100
Typical electrical project around $820
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