The Electrician Kirkland WA Needs for Dead Outlets, Etc.
I am The Circuit Detective, Larry Dimock. In the electrical trade since 1977, I have concentrated totally on home electrical troubleshooting since 1997.
The kind of work I do is described more fully in Eastside electrician. And more than you want to know about me is here.
Is the Cost Reasonable?
Because I am only addressing problems that tend to take under an hour, and because I am only selling you the fix, not "upgrades", your cost is under $100, on average. I charge $40 to come to 98033 and 98034, plus $1.00 per minute while I am working there (the average job takes me 40 minutes).
I consider this a very reasonable pricing structure. There is no way for a "firm bid" to be fair for troubleshooting work, which by its nature is an unknown. Any true diagnosis of such problems takes the bulk of the total time needed to fix them. So if your electricity is suffering from a mystery, use the right electrician, Kirkland.
How Soon Could I Come?
Unlike the average electrical contractor, I am not tied up on various projects. So I can usually come within a day or two of when you call, Mon-Fri 9am-4pm (exceptions possible). And reaching me by cellphone is not a problem Mon-Sat 7am-9pm. Call me at 425-333-4400.
If You Like to Learn...
I encourage people to know and take care of their own homes. In case your problem is one you could handle, given a little more knowledge, My website for electrical troubleshooting will help. 600-700 self-reliant people around the country visit it every day.
Some Kirland Electrical Mystery Stories
Forbes Creek area. My wife and I remember the little daughter of a high school friend of ours. When paying us a visit and hearing what I do, the mother virtually set me up to go to her daughter's place because she knew there was an electrical issue with something there. This girl is now a surgeon. With her husband's blessing, she had taken on some upgrading of switches at home, but things weren't working quite right. I admire the attempt. I'm not equally up to using a scalpel. Anyway, I found the misconnection at a four-way switch for the stairway and showed her how to avoid similar mixups elsewhere in the house. I think she'll finish that house-surgery with a healthy patient.
Near Yarrow Bay. Looking back after electrical problems get solved, some seem embarrassingly simple, even to me. This house lost power to a garage outlet and two outdoor outlets. This is most often due to a tripped GFI receptacle. With the panel in the garage, I expected to find a GFI somewhere in the garage, and there was. But it was not tripped. When outlets on just part of a circuit are totally dead, you can't easily tell which circuit they are part of. Rather than a tripped GFI, I was now looking for a bad connection at some outlet along this unknown circuit. So I resorted to my wire tracer than can follow where wires are going in the walls. Eventually this led me to cubby hole of the garage, where behind bikes and much other stuff was another GFI! Once reset, everything worked again! Why was there a second GFI, when the first one should have been able to protect the rest itself? Well, it had to do with a prior short circuit on this circuit, which the homeowner had told me about. Apparently another electrical contractor had addressed that problem by putting in the second GFI. Anyway, clutter, history, and code all conspire to make even simple things more difficult, even for a good electrician, Kirkland.
THE CIRCUIT DETECTIVE