Lion Electric

Paul S.

Victor RAMIREZ is one super-competent (unflappable! quick! accurate!) electrician, at both the commercial and domestic household level. We're so glad to have a reliable electrician -- our previous one in El Cerrito went out of business (death). Victor ran a new 220v line from downstairs main panel to our new minisplit three-zone Mitsubishi HVAC system, including a beautiful and careful job running new weatherproofed conduit. His work instantly passed muster with the El Cerrito city inspector, and with the HVAC installer (also very good). Victor comes on time, he works hard without any complaint about hauling ladders around, and he's a local guy, which I like very very much. He gets it done -- and this required moving around internal lines inside the main electrical panel, installing a shutoff at the condenser, replacing an outside outlet with a GFCI plug (required now). And the price was eminently reasonable.

While we were waiting for the City guy to show up to sign off on the job, I remarked that we had an electrically-operated skylight that had stopped opening; I'd ordered a replacement transformer a year ago, but wasn't enthusiastic about doing precision electrical work on a ladder fifteen feet above the ground. Having Victor do it worked out well, and the added cost totally reasonable. Victor replaced the transformer, got the remote working, noticed a small leak that I'll need to seal off, and cleaned the inside of the skylight (!!!), and then the inspector showed up and signed off on the 220v line.

Lion Electric is just great: Our experience in the El Cerrito Hills was solidly good from beginning to end.

Jon A.

Great, dependable work! Fair prices. I hired Lion Electric to do major electrical upgrades to our home. They did a fantastic job! Would definitely recommend Victor and his team.

Mike E.

Victor was highly recommended on our Berkeley neighborhood ListServ so I reached out to him to see if he had interest and availability to perform a small job. He responded quickly to my call and was easy to reach via text to confirm appointment timing. The entire process could not have been easier and Victor was vey responsive. Victor came out and quickly addressed the issue we were aware of (installing a new outlet on a garage wall to connect to our irrigation system) and also diagnosed and fixed a related issue with the outlet in our crawl space. Victor explained what he needed to do, was upfront and clear on the price, which was fair and reasonable. I will hire Victor again.

Nancy C.

I've worked with Victor twice, once at my home and the other at my parents house. He was quick and efficient, thorough, and a great problem solver. At my house he was fixing the not-great quality work of someone else. At my parents house, he replaced the electrical panel. The panel replacement, like many larger home improvement jobs, revealed the need to fix a few other things but everything was handled as it came along. The bid was transparent.

We ended up having to do the work at my parents house at a very difficult time for the family. Victor was thoughtful, patient, and even recruited a colleague in a different trade to take care of some additional work that the inspector wanted when we were overwhelmed by our situation and unable to do so ourselves.

Peter L.

My old hot water boiler went out and I wanted to shift from a model that uses natural gas to one that is electric. I wanted to do that because it is the right thing to do to get off carbon energy, and because it is now cheaper. I have solar panels on my roof and essentially all my electricity is free!

However, I needed to get an electrician quickly in order to do the rewiring in my house in order to swap in an electric boiler and get hot water back working in my house.

I found Victor Ramirez and he quickly responded to my query and reorganized his schedule to help me out on deadline. He was also great to work with.

Victor analyzed what I really needed and gave me great advice on what was necessary. He was very skillful and efficient. And the cost of his bid was substantially under another bid I sought out.

I highly recommend using this company and I will for sure use him the next time I need anything to do with electricity. Check him out.

Tarah O.

We worked with Lion Electric when we moved our office from downstairs to upstairs in our home. The plug in our ""new office"" wouldn't work for my large Biz Hub Printer - so we called Victor at Lion Electric. He came in, provided a free assessment, explained the issue, how he proposed to solve it, and offered a fair and transparent estimate. He then returned when agreed and had the job completed faster than I anticipated!

He had to run new wire from our exterior electrical panel to the office and installed new dedicated plugs for the printer and computer equipment. The work was completed professionally, he protected the flooring while he worked, he cleaned up after, he even labeled the new breakers in the box! I plan to use Lion Electric for our next project and wouldn't hesitate to recommend him.

Christina C.

I highly recommend working with the electrical crew at Lion Electric. They came to my house on time and prepared. They did some work in my studio garden apartment running new wires and conduit, hanging light fixtures, creating light sensors in my garage and some beautiful landscape lighting. The prices were fair, they were professional and kept everything very clean.

Eric F.

I've used Victor and crew many times and recommended them to several people as well. Honest, reasonable and trustworthy. They came out and did a bunch of very complicated work when a landscape contractor couldn't get it done. They stepped in at short notice and got it done fast so the rest of the project could continue and complete on time.

Matt K.

Victor is a talented, knowledgeable electrician. Does detail oriented work. Very practical. He has been doing work for me 5+ years and it is always great work.

An illustrative example of how good he is at his trade is when the electricians who wired by whole house generator hired Victor to fix their work. They had their whole team show up at our house to watch and learn from Victor how to do the job correctly.

Dave A.

I have worked with Victor for many years. He is fantastic, friendly and awesome. He has solved and fixed many electric problems for me at my properties so many times. He is very reliable and a super great guy to work with.