Mr. Electric of Honolulu

If I could rate this company with zero stars, I would. Joe, the owner, has no personality, does’t greet you with a «Hello» after you greet him, makes sassy remarks, and has an attitude.
Joe would also interrupt you as you spoke. Very rude. Nothing positive about the owner and prices and I’m sure that will show in his work as well.

If I could give negative stars I would. I wished I checked out the ratings on Unilocal before hand, but got a recommendation from another company. Not only was I not told about the $ 70 «service call» charge that Joe collected and became defensive about when I told him no one told me about this service charge and got his wife on the phone, but he forgot to add an additional item to the quote jumping it from $ 1000 to $ 1700 all of a sudden. I really question the integrity of this husband and wife duo.

I got a estimate to install 6 smoke detectors, Joe gave me a quote of $ 964.71, I got another electrician to do the job for $ 150.00, I guess Joe makes his money on his service call charge, because his prices are a rip off

$ 247 an hour… Utterly ridiculous… No mention of that… Then they tried charging $ 74 to show up

After no less than FIVE flakey so called ‘electricians’ on Oahu I was done.
Tired of wanna be ‘da kine’ dudes on craigslist trying to get their own gig going on the side work and NEVER following up… I mean I seriously called 5 different companies and individuals from the yellow pages to Unilocal and craigslist over the course of 2 weeks and never was able to get someone to do a simple install of a 220 v outlet in my garage…
Finally I called these guys… I was a little hesitant because they didn’t have much cred on Unilocal,but after five failures I was ready to try anything. I just wanted my danged outlet installed… (I was reminded, by the way, of the Internet Meme of the guy from New York complaining about rent fixing… «The number of flakey electricians in this town is just too damn high!») so I call them and they arrange to have Forrest (as in Gump– and he was good like Gump) stop by…
After looking at my job and the requirements he meticulously pieced together a spec sheet with prices on the spot…
I thought to myself that is a little on the high side (it was about 3 times what most of the flakes had told me it would cost) but then his close was absolutely music to my ears… ‘If you want I can do it today.’ Really? SOLD. After a week of dealing with flakes I probably would have paid 4 times… But the fact that he was efficient, well spoken, and gave me an up front realistic price with no surprises, AND was available to do the work that day… I jumped on it faster than a portagee on a spam masubi sale at Don Quixote.
If you want an electrical job done and you don’t want to deal with flakes, call these guys and ask for Forrest– he’s fast, he’s thorough and he’s professional.
Thanks Forrest, nice job.

so the lights in my bathroom, kids room, and hallway all started working. In really didn’t know who to call but remember the corny commercial I called Mr. Electric who would hopefully know how to fix my problem.
The two women I spoke to, making and confirming my appointment, they were both extremely pleasant, and very easy to talk to. I believe in great customer service and that’s what they gave me, so I knew already I was making the right choice.
Joe, the electrician, who helped me, was such a nice local guy, easy to talk to and he made the situation a lot easier to understand, and he did an amazing job fixing our lights. He also showed me how to change the smoke detector batteries and fixing out cable switch. So awesome!
Idk, how you guys find your electricians, but keep it up! Seriously, everything was perfect from the women who answered the phone to the actual Mr. Electric, outstanding! I’ll always go back to this company from know on.