Dahlgren Electric

Randy helped with our daughters house in Magnolia. He was very thoughtful about a few of the issues in the home and helped us upgrade some of the knob and tube wiring in the house. He took his time. Was willing to provide some instruction on some diy wiring that needed revision and troubleshooted a gfci issue. I found his rate to be very reasonable and we have hired him to add a bathroom fan and new bathroom circuit. He really thinks through the complexities of older homes and comes up with solutions that improve overall safety of wiring that has been added by non-​professional electricians.

Randy Dahlgren seems like a highly competent electrician who should probably find another line of work, because he really seems to hate what he does. He yelled at me for asking questions about the placement of an electrical panel in the unit we were wiring, and left the job ²⁄₃ done, even though we tried to pay him extra to finish it. We ended up having to find another electrician to finish the job because he seemed so unstable that we didn’t want to ask him back. This was a giant pain, because he hadn’t gotten a permit for the original work (which he didn’t run by us) and no electrician wanted to touch someone else’s unpermitted job. Headaches all around.

Randy showed up at my house right on time, which I always appreciate. I had a bunch of small electrical problems which could normally frustrate your average contractor, but Randy worked away at them diligently and did excellent work. Very personable, got a lot done in a relatively short amount of time. Highly recommend.

We found Randy when the circuit serving our furnace malfunctioned and we had no heat. Because we also knew that our house wiring was very substandard in several areas, we also proposed that he do a rewire. Randy was very conservative, and insisted on getting the furnace power on so that further decisions would be made independently of that problem. He then readily agreed to eliminate an illegal sub-​panel and rewire some of the worst and more practical to reach areas. He only agreed to redo the marginal service and main panel when it was clear the old one was not really able to be improved.
He is very conscientious about safety and did a lot of double checking and he is very careful about making sure connections are tight. He spent considerable time making sure that the pipe that received the wires from the telephone pole was properly secured to code, even though he had precious few options with the irregular framing of our house.
He is both a real electrician and an electrical administrator. Considering that his rate s are very reasonable. Randy prefers to work smart rather than fast. He just doesn’t dive into projects. We called him back a month later when a bathroom was torn open to improve more wiring that became accessible. He made sense of it. It took a few more hours than I expected, but over-​all was a good price, and the quality is without question
Also when I had another mystery problem with lights he spent 15 minutes over the phone troubleshooting it and he solved the problem (a three way switch in a nother room had been forgotten about and its toggle had been jostled in to the middle)