If you think that finding a “good, reliable” electrician is easy, ask an electrical services company.

These days finding a reliable electrician can be hard. When it comes to your home, Ozburn Electrical Contractors, Inc. wants only the best, high quality electrical work done for you. Although this article is about how you, as a home owner or general contractor can find a good electrician or electrical services company, we want to let you know that even finding a good, solid electrician as an employee can be difficult sometimes. At Ozburn Electrical Contractors, Inc., of Covington, GA, we only hire the best because our customers deserve the best.

One way to find a good electrician is by word of mouth or in marketing terms, “repeat and referral”. Word of mouth is the best way that any trades person can be advertised. Because word gets around very fast to other people. Check with your relatives, friends and neighbors to see if they can recommend someone to you that does good work and that has did quality work for them. This is a good way of finding a reliable electrician to do work in your home.

Look online for good reviews or a good reputation. It used to be where you could pick up your local paper and look for advertisements for electrical work done in your area and the surrounding areas where you live. Nowadays, hardly anyone looks at a newspaper because of social outlets on the internet. Do a Google search for “electrician near me” to see what is local to you. The results page should give you good enough information to at least get you started on finding a good electrician or electrical services company. The internet offers a variety of good ways to check the electrician out before hiring them to do work for you.

How ever you find someone to do electrical work for you, make sure they come from a reputable company. It is best to check that the company will do the type of work that you are needing. And if they can start the work you need in a good time frame when you want it done. Check from them that their work is guaranteed and that they will stand by their work. Ozburn Electrical Contractors, Inc. offers a 1-year warranty of their work and they’ll stand by that with integrity. Get a quote in writing and compare it with other company quotes. Check how long they have been in business and if they have a good reputation and are an established company. (Ozburn Electrical Contractors, Inc. has been in business since 1984!) And make sure to ask them if they are carrying insurance. All of these things will help you to find a good reliable electrician.

It is good to check out an electrician to see if he is good at his work and reliable. Ozburn’s employees have been vetted and have completed IEC Electrical school or are in the process of taking electrical classes at IEC. IEC stands for “Independent Electrical Contractors” and abide by the rules and regulations as set forth by the Department of Labor out of Washington, DC. If you would like to read more about the IEC, click here.

There are those people that do not run a legitimate business and are not dependable or capable of doing the job. These will be the ones that you definitely want to avoid. You need to find this out before you go and hire someone like this. They are usually pretty easy to spot.

Here are some of the things to look for if someone is not running a legitimate business.

There only phone number they give is for their mobile phone.

They try and talk you out of doing the job right because they see a easier way of doing it.

They make the work sound way more complicated then it really is.

They won’t give you a written quote for the work in writing.

They won’t give a firm price to you for the work being done.

They have no references from jobs they have did.

They can not show you any paper work of any certificates they have or any qualifications that they have for this type of work.

These are the things that you need to watch out for when hiring a electrician or you can just give Ozburn Electric a call today at 770-784-1618 and bypass all of the worry and stress.

Ozburn Electrical Contractors, Inc. services the metro Atlanta area and also Covington, Conyers, Marietta, Alpharetta, Stone Mountain, Greensboro, Lake Oconee, Reynolds at Lake Oconee, Madison, Loganville, Snellville, Eatonton, Monticello, Jackson, Stockbridge, McDonough, and more! Call us today!