NEC Electric

NEC Electric is a Needham, Massachusetts electrical contractor with a deep, mostly five-star track record running from 2021 through this year across seven review platforms — Best Pick Reports (4.9★, 203 ratings), Thumbtack (5.0★, 27), and Angi and HomeAdvisor (4.4★, 76 each). The work runs from routine repairs to serious rewiring. A 2026 Best Pick Reports review described buying a 125-year-old house that still had knob-and-tube wiring and gas lines in the walls, and having the entire electrical system — panel, capacity, and lighting — brought up to code. Another 2026 review described an EV charger quoted quickly and installed the following week, with the crew calling the work perfect and the install area left clean. Across the years, the same names keep showing up in reviews — Ed, Jay, Keith, Liam, and the crew of Kyle and Tom on the EV charger job — described consistently as knowledgeable, punctual, and easy to work with. A 2025 Reddit post in r/QuincyMa named NEC after the poster compared several quotes, saying they got a better sense the company would be responsive if something went wrong later — the kind of practical reasoning a homeowner comparing electricians would recognize. Not every account is glowing. A 2026 Best Pick Reports review raised a real complaint: the customer was quoted for a labor-intensive process, later learned that time-saving technology had actually been used, and said the company refused to adjust the price when asked, in writing. It's a fair thing to ask about directly — how a quote is built and whether it changes if the job goes faster than planned. The bulk of the written record predates the last six months, so it mostly describes what this company has been like over several years rather than what to expect from a booking made today; the two most recent accounts, from mid-2026, are positive, but there's less current volume to lean on than the all-time numbers suggest. For a straightforward repair or a bigger rewiring job, the history points to a well-established crew that keeps a work site clean and finishes efficiently — it's worth getting the pricing basis in writing up front, particularly if the job might go faster than the initial estimate assumes.