Earle's Lo-Cost Electric Company

★★★★☆ 4.3 / 5 (48)
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: 3024 Maxwell Ave, Oakland, CA 94619
: (510) 436-4787
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Company Overview

Business Services

  • Electric inspection
  • Electric installation or replacement
  • Outlet installation

Business Location & Hours



Mon:Open 24 hours
Tue:Open 24 hours
Wed:Open 24 hours
Thu:Open 24 hours
Fri:Open 24 hours
Sat:Open 24 hours
Sun:Open 24 hours

Recommended Customer Reviews

charlie b.
★☆☆☆☆

After supplying an estimate, basically stopped responding to all phone call or emails. He is very unprofessional in his approach to business.

Robin V.
★★★★★

Earle has done several jobs for us, each one has been done to perfection.

The latest was the addition of recessed lighting. Great work, placed them perfectly. Now we have movie theater lighting for our home.

His prices are reasonable and his service is impeccable. He also responds (reasonably promptly) to email which is huge given our busy work schedules.

Going to bring him back for more work in the future. Thanks Earle!

Jonathan F.
★★★★★

I've been using Earle's for my real estate clients, he is very friendly, smart and professional, he uses a lot of care, the dude works hard. He truly gets to the bottom of the problem and charges reasonable prices.

erica g.
★★★★☆

Great experience with Earl and his team... they were proficient and on time. Quality work and they were all stand up guys. Helped out with a number of projects and went out of his way to make sure they were done right.

Joe L.
★☆☆☆☆

Earle installed a breaker box for me that was not ARC FAULT protected. This resulted in a very dangerous and hidden electrical problem. The whole system shorted out due to this error. The installers also broke the lug when they installed it and they left something in the breaker box that caused the panel to jut outward. When I had another repair person come to fix it, he let me know that most of the work Earle's team had done was not completed safely and was not up to code. The work he and his team did needed to be redone by a real, professional, ethical electrician.
Do not hire this company to do your work unless you want to pay to have it redone later.

RUSTY C.
★★★★★

Prompt service, tenant who's office was worked on complimented Earl's son
who did the work. I've used Earl's before and been very happy with their
work and prompt service. Great resource.

Otney B.
★☆☆☆☆

This would be a zero stars if zero stars were available. Other sources had raved about Earle's Lo-Cost Electric. We called and spoke to (I presume) Earle. He sent over another person, with whom it was very difficult to communicate. But, we got the thing we wanted, (a motion detector light on our porch.) In the wrong place, at least, in terms of aesthetic considerations, (since we could not communicate with the guy who was sent over) but hey, it was installed. Works okay. Two or three or four years go by. We have another licensed electrician come today to do something else. She finds out that the motion detector porch light was TIED IN TO OUR OLD KNOB and TUBE WIRING. And our much newer, safer, to code, electrical wiring / junction box is nearby. So the guy that Earle's Lo-Cost Electric sent several years ago:

A) was impossible to communicate with, so motion detector light install put in the wrong place

and he

B) wired the job illegally, and dangerously, and what the f#%* ! connected to the knob and tube wiring set up

so now we

C) need to get this fixed ASAP

and we

D) are NOT happy

B T.
★☆☆☆☆

Yes, they are very low cost, but the work that was done was unsafe. I called to have a 240-volt outlet put in for my dryer, and they were the lowest bid so I went with them. Now I'm having to have another electrician fix their work because they put in a cable suited for a 110-volt outlet, which is not code and a huge fire hazard.

Marian C.
★★★★★

I called Earle's on the recommendation of my son-in-law. He got back to me quickly and his son Kevin came out & took care of two jobs for under $100. The other electrician I'd gotten a quote from wanted $1200! The difference in price was just incredible. So when I needed the 220 electricity run about 20 feet & a receptacle put in, I called Earle's again. This time they did the work for 1/3 of another electrician's quote. They are courteous and prompt and easy to work with. I will definitely call them if I need more work done and I highly recommend them to others.

Laura B.
★★★★★

Look no further - ""Earl's Lo-Cost"" is your electrician, and he truly is low cost. When I needed to replace the main panel at my house, I had 3 electricians do a site visit and got 3 bids. The other 2 bids were twice as high as Earle's, and it was because they were trying to unecessarily increase the scope of the project (though this wasn't apparent immediately, it only became clear when I asked why their bids were so much higher than this one. )

In addition to his extremely reasonable prices, Earl was professional, very easy to communicate with, and did not use any alarmist techniques in order to increase the scope of the job. The team was efficient and did solid work. I've had them back to do other work and have recommended them to friends. I also was able to talk with Earl about a project I was thinking about doing myself and he was more than happy to share his insight and talk through it with me.

Highest recommendation!

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