E/R Electric

E/R Electric is a Cambridge outfit built around one guy answering his own phone: homeowners text a photo of a breaker or a dead outlet, and Eddie Rodrigues — sometimes with a partner, Steve or Laura — shows up the same day more often than not. He's run the business since January 2007 according to BBB records and his own LinkedIn profile, about nineteen years, though the company's own website markets 25 years in the trade, so it's worth asking which timeline they mean. The last six months tell a consistent story. One homeowner reached out at 10am and had the job finished and the crew gone by 12:30 the same day. A full electrical safety inspection this spring had Eddie going through the panel checking for loose connections and outdated breakers, then testing every outlet in the house for grounding and polarity. A Somerville condo renovation in an older building got its wiring modernized and brought up to code. When a tenant's breaker failed during off-hours, the emergency call came with no overtime surcharge and reasonable pricing. And when a water leak knocked out power to a basement disconnect during a cold snap — a job other electricians had already turned down — Eddie and Laura had it back on within two hours and followed up with photos labeled to show exactly what failed. That pattern of answering fast and taking jobs others pass on runs through the longer history too: 89 reviews stretch back to 2021 across Google, RealPros, ServiceAgent, and Alignable, and the 20 most recent — all from the past six months — don't include a negative one. The rating is about as corroborated as a small operation gets: 5.0 stars on Google across 134 ratings, 5.0 across 128 on RealPros, and an 8.3-out-of-10 ServiceAgent score built on 127 reviews — three independent tallies landing in the same place. Before calling, know that E/R isn't BBB accredited and doesn't carry a BBB rating — the Bureau says it simply doesn't have enough information on file, which isn't unusual for an operation this size but is worth knowing going in. Also worth confirming: which "years in business" figure they mean, since the marketing number and the public BBB/LinkedIn record don't match. This is the electrician to call for the job that needs someone today rather than in three weeks — panel upgrades, EV chargers, breaker trouble, safety inspections. The Massachusetts DOL license, #11015, runs through mid-2028.