Lightning Electrical

This company has no clue what they are doing. Dealing with the owner seems to be more of a challenge also (Rick). They do not seem to want to honor their work from hanging light fixtures to outlets. They like to charge for simple things rather than honoring their work. Don’t worry though estimates are FREE!

We hired this company a little less than a year ago to put in all new lights and fix outlets that were not working. On one light the electrician installed a new switch a way he was not supposed to and it was not until he showed back up later that day with his boss to look at it that we were even told of the issue. They had to put an extra hole in the ceiling of a bathroom that is covered with a plastic plate now. They hung several lights on chains that we have since had to redo because they were having from the cord itself and not the chain. The outlet they «fixed» have all 1 by 1 stopped working. And now less than a year after paying them hundreds of dollars to do all this work half the outlets in my home don’t work and I’m now paying a new electrician to come fix everything.
The staff was very nice but not knowledgable when it comes to actually doing the installation or repair of lights or sockets.

Rick from Lightning Electrical turned our frown, upside-​down!
A little backstory first: An electrician was hired by our home’s previous home owners to replace the exterior breaker box while our home was in escrow. What they didn’t know was that he was going through some personal problems and halfway through, he left this job hanging. Literally hanging– the only thing keeping the power box in place was one of our new home’s electrical wires and a well-​placed 2×4. The inspector from the City of Austin visited the house several times to try to get the electrician to fix it to code before finally shutting down the power to our house. The previous owners had moved out by this point and we had begun moving in. Mind you, this was in the middle of August and August in Austin is a horrible time of year to have all of the power to your house completely shut off.
Rick and his team were called and they came out promptly the next day. They were fast and completely redid all of the work that the previous guy had done (which was great because on top of everything else, the previous guy had installed the wrong type of box and hadn’t properly grounded our electrical system) and they had the job finished within a couple of hours. They even labeled all the breakers for us so we know which one controls what. They then called the inspector to come back out and we had the power turned back on shortly thereafter. The fans and A/​C kicked on and we were able to finish the rest of our move in relative comfort. Thank you Lightning Electrical for fixing our electrical nightmare!