Parent-electric

Darel Parent has been doing electrical work out of Melrose since 2012, and the 36 reviews spanning 2023 through this year describe someone homeowners call back again and again — one says he's been her family's first call for electrical issues "for over ten years." The jobs range from routine to serious: relocating an exterior breaker panel and following up with the city inspector to confirm it passed code, installing a subpanel to run a new electric pool heater, wiring an EV charger in a single morning, and, in one review, rebuilding electrical service across four floors after a house fire. A reviewer who identified as a licensed electrician hired him for her own home and wrote that he "goes above and beyond" at fair prices. Response time comes up over and over: a Sunday-afternoon call about a problem that could have caused a fire got a same-day fix, and one customer says he showed up 15 minutes after a voicemail to sort out a Nest thermostat's power connection. Several reviewers mention he found and fixed a secondary issue at no extra charge while doing the job they'd actually called him for. One family met him already on a job site — a builder had hired him to wire their new-construction home, and they came away glad it had been him. His own site describes a wider menu than the reviews alone show — panel upgrades, generator hookups, CCTV wiring — across a service area stretching from Stoneham and Wakefield to Arlington and Burlington. Angi lists him as an Approved pro with a self-reported trade license (#50702, expiring 2028); that's the business's own claim to the directory, not something checked against the state registry. For anything from a stuck outlet to a full panel relocation, Parent Electric's reviews point to speed and follow-through as the calling card, and there's nothing negative in the record to flag before booking.