Lukas Electric

Victoria N.

We are currently in court!!

I hired Chase Palmer of Lukas Electric to rewire my house under construction. The house is pre-wired for Gas and Electric, but I needed it to be converted to Electric only. The job entailed: 1. Running 220V wires to certain parts of the house for Stove Rage, Furnace and Water heaters2. Get electricity to the buildingIn addition, for the already pre-run 110V outlets, it needed to: 1. Install all the outlet covers and light switches. 2. Install pre-purchased lights and hang 8 fansMr. Palmer quoted the exorbitant amount of $15,000.00. I accepted this quote because I was in a desperate situation. I had about 2 months to complete the building, or the bank will shut down funding and subsequently repossess. Mr. Palmer was fully aware of this because I requested that he co-signs my bank draws, which is the bank requirement. I chose Mr. Palmer because he stated that the job will take him 3 weeks. I figured that since he will be the contractor on site the ""longest"" he will at least be an extra set of eyes. MR Palmer requested a down payment of $5000 which I gave. He subsequently kept asking for more money and more money and stopped showing up. He failed the City inspection twice. He never ran any 220V wires. He hung up the fans and the lights I bought. The hanging lights were never measured. He also installed some of the light switch covers and some of the outlet covers. Every task he accomplished was a handy-man task based on the 110V wiring that had already been done. When I ask him to come, in he had a series of stories, including, ""The weather is too hot"" and ""I have other jobs"".I let Mr. Palmer go on Day 78 of us signing the contract. At this point, the bank funding had been shut down, I am renting generators for other contractors to accomplish tasks, and the bank is getting ready for foreclose. I had paid Mr. Palmer 12,212.08, I have no electricity, no conversion had been attempted, and my Circuit breaker panel is not up to code to pass City Inspection.

I am currently in court with him to recover some of my money. He can keep enough to hang 8 fans because that was the only thing he completed (not including breaking one light cover)
I am suing him for $9576.00 which is the amount another electrical company charged to do everything else.

Basically if you read all this and still choose to hire him, never give him more than the deposit discussed. If he wiggles more money out of you oh, he will abandon the job and run.

Jaimie P.

They were very professional and knowledgeable about their work. We ate very happy with several repairs from my spouse sawing through wires and many other repairs.