AC Electric re-mediated the aluminum wiring in our old house via Copalum, and I was thoroughly impressed with their customer service and quality of personnel. They're one of two companies in town who are qualified to do so, and their prices are significantly lower. Although they were VERY busy, and it did take a few weeks after I inquired for them to be able to start the job, when started it was done efficiently, with great care and attention to detail. Bobby is young and intelligent, and I never questioned whether he knew exactly what he was doing. He and his crew were incredibly courteous, smart, and kept in great communication with us about what was happening and about how long it would take to fix things. We had a real mess of electrical work left by the previous owners of the house, but they got everything working perfectly in several days. Bobby even came back the next week after the job was done, when some outlets had stopped working (not due to anything they'd done, but due to some old broken wires), and fixed the problem, no questions asked. AC Electric are the only electricians I will recommend from now on, and that recommendation will be an easy one to give. Thanks! read more

Mike has been my electrician since we moved to Austin in 2010. This week while Mike was on vacation, we needed help. Lily arranged for Aaron to come out to us. Aaron is new and we had not seen him before. What a great fellow he is and did an amazing job diagnosing our issues and solving the problem. Aaron is a great addition to Mike and the A/C Electric folks. Thanks Mike and team. Ed. B read more

Charged over $250 to change an electrical outlet. 20 minutes of work. Contacted them about high pricing and was ignored. When I mentioned never using them again, got an immediate ****-head response from Mike Short. Use anyone else. read more

Setting up the appointment was great, and Debi was very friendly. However, I can't really rate the quality of work, because the guy never showed up! No call, no followup to reschedule, nothing. Thanks for wasting my time read more

Art Lawrence definitely provides elite, professional electrical service. Any type of electrical work you need completed, Art is the one for the job. He is also a specialist at what is called electrical troubleshooting. He really knows his stuff and his pricing is very fair. Art is also fun to work with. Highly recommended! read more

I had commissioned AC electric for a large electric job lasting more than 2 weeks to do some major repairs to my house. While the progress was good initially, they started doing other projects in the middle and skipping work at my project. After 80% of the project is done they have now gone missing for almost 2 weeks now. Emails and calls to them are resulting in no answers about how and when they would finish the work. I understand they are going through some issues on their side, my project and move in date is now delayed by weeks with no line of sight to when the project will be completed. I would definitely not recommend them for an electric project to anybody. read more

I needed a new service entry for a 1958 house and I'd give them five stars for that $1,600 job. Owner Mike was great to deal with, as was his wife Debbie. I called them after that for a circuit breaker that kept opening and I couldn't understand what was causing that. Debbie was as nice as ever, but wouldn't schedule with me now because of the distance from their house to mine. Said she'd pencil me in on the calendar for a service call, meaning when it was convenient for AC. The Friday before Memorial Day, Debbie called to tell me her electrician would make a call on Memorial Day since it was on his way out of town. I waited all day, no call, no show. I took care of the problem another way after weeks had passed. The cable stay for the new electrical service AC installed pulled out of the roof. It was a short lag screw that had only penetrated some shingles, very unsafe and useless in providing the required support for a long run of heavy cable from the street. I've called AC twice and had to leave a message both times, without a return call from them. Kind of leaves me no choice but to post my experience. I don't know what to make of such a reversal of service, weeks long waits, not showing when they schedule, and most critically, not fixing the hanging mast support cable that wasn't installed properly. read more

AC Electric - Lag screw should have been placed in a rafter, the cable stay pulled out within a week. This isn't safe. - Electricians Near Me - Austin, Texas

Art gave us a quote for electrical work on our recently renovated home. he used fear mongering to try to scam us into $60K worth of electrical work. we had three other specialists including an inspector and two licensed electricians provide their opinions and ultimately the job cost us less than $600. read more

I have a garage bay that will be my man cave/shop, and I needed some additional outlets and lighting. I tend to look for help close by just in case I need to visit them afterward if things go wrong. Thus I found two electricians and asked for quotes from them. By far AC Electric, a family owned company, was the most personal and eager to get work and do it right. So much, that even though he has a hired crew, the owner (Mike) came by to do the estimate. Mike understood that I had a budget and offered only what I needed to get the job done. Today, Mike and one of his crew came out, did the work exactly as planned. No extra fees or charges, just quality work. He replace two 2 socket outlets with quads, and added another. I also added additional lighting on a 12 foot ceiling and they made it look easy and did it quickly. Now I'm ready to get to work! I highly recommend them because they listen to what you want, do the right job and not something I didn't need, they perform quality work, and the price was just right. read more

Epitome of locally owned and operated business. They work very hard and their customer service is amazing. Debbie is always a pleasure to talk to even though I know she's extremely busy as she's the only one running the office. I'd highly recommend them if you want a quality electrician that is very trustworthy. Wouldn't use anyone else in Austin. read more

I'm going to update my review once more here. I still can't say that I am happy with my experience--we were ultimately left with a job that was incomplete. However Debi did call me after my update and was very apologetic. She did not ask me to change my review, simply acknowledged that they fell short and apologized, and I felt it was sincere. They're a small family business and it sounds like personal events in their life disrupted the work. So I guess what I would say is that if you want to support a local family business and avoid the big companies then I would still recommend AC. I hope my experience was a rare miss and they are able to get back to the quality service that I had heard about. read more

AC Electric has been out to my rental property multiple times over the past 5 years to perform COPALUM repairs on my aluminum wiring. They also assisted me with a kitchen renovation, helping me to replace aluminum wiring, adding new copper dedicated 20A circuits and install new LED undercabinet lights in the kitchen. Most recently they demolished my old 1969 electrical service entry on my rental property and re-installed a new one. They worked with my siding contractor to make sure the rotted siding was replaced behind the panels before they installed the new service. AC Electric brought by a loaner gas generator to keep our refrigerators & internet running overnight while the power was off. Photos are shown below of the service entry BEFORE and AFTER. I'm a picky client and their team has always done a quality job for a fair price. read more

AC Electric - Before and After photos of electrical service entry renovation. - Electricians Near Me - Austin, Texas

1. lady answered said she was on the road and would call me back to schedule an appointment - didn't call back. 2. I called her back and couldn't get anything for 3 weeks so I went ahead and scheduled it. 3. appointment was at 8:30 am today. No call. No show. read more

Love these guys. Locally owned and very speedy service, especially when it is the middle of summer and you need something done quickly in the Texas Heat. I found out about them online and everything was done as promised. Pricing was okay. Not the most expensive or the cheapest. read more

I like Mike. He has done good work for us in the past. My last round we had some hiccups due to his bucket truck not wanting to cooperate, but we figured out how to get past that. I think you can trust Mike to take care of you. Tim read more

Mike did a fantastic job installing the electrical needed for my new outdoor hot tub. First, Mike offered to stop by to provide me a quote in person at no charge, which I very much appreciated. Mike was very accomodating as my schedule changed and had great communication about the time and date for his service. He was professional, thorough, diligent in getting the job done. I also liked that he was friendly and kind. He did the work for the quoted price. I asked him to take a quick look at something else and he did without charge. He also gave me a few ideas about hot tub installation - totally out of his scope but he's just that kind of nice guy to help if he can. I strongly recommend Mike and will call him forever more if I ever need further electrical work. read more

I have worked with Mike on multiple occasions They installed a 200 amp panel and completely wired my studio, including some 3 phase circuits. At our first meeting Mike made some very helpful and cost saving suggestions. The price was reasonable and the work was completed in a timely manner. I will use them for all my electrical work! read more

I asked for an estimate for a hot tub installation. I received it in a timely fashion, although it was $300 higher than any other estimate. I asked for it to be itemized between supplies and labor. The only reply I received was literally an email containing the word, "no," This company does does not deserve your business. read more

Great customer service. I only needed electrical outlets replaced inside and outside of my home and a faulty light fixture replaced. The electrician was polite and friendly. There was a minor problem with the installation of an inexpensive light fixture that I bought (I won't make that mistake again) at a local home improvement store. They promptly fixed the issue. I would recommend them to family and friends. read more

We called Mike Short (yes that really is his name) to have an electrician come to our home and troubleshoot a bad ceiling fixture. The technician quickly determined that the original line was damage during construction, so the build snaked a space line beside it in case the line failed. As it had failed, our AC Electric tech was able to quickly rewire to the new line and had everything better than new in less than 30 minutes. Service was first rate and the price was fair. read more

I'm updating my review to reflect the fact that, while the people at AC Electric are fantastic and very nice, they're very unreliable. They were in the middle of a project for me and then just stopped returning my calls. Every time I call the office she apologizes and assures me someone will be in touch to follow up. They never do. It's been over a month and several unreturned service requests later, so I was forced to change my review from 5 to 3 stars and call another company. My suggestion is that you have them plan on fixing the issue on their first visit. Do not rely on them to follow up in a timely (or existant) manner. read more

They installed an outlet for my electric vehicle charging station. The conduit run is very clean and hardly shows at all. The outlet was miswired at first and they had to come back to fix it. Great work, I just feel bad for returning a charger that didn't work because of a miswired outlet. read more

Worst "service" ever. Called after having used this company in past. Past service was years ago and was good. Years later, total waste of time. Owner's wife stopped by to take pictures of job, commenting she was on her way to visit grandchildren. Visit was chatty and lengthy. She called owner and discussed job, price was discussed as well as many other non relevant things. I was under time crunch due to a move in date on an unfinished home. Debbie never followed up with me after a couple weeks. I emailed her more than once and was told they would try for the following week, working on it, hard to say....blah blah, but to "hold on" and no promises. I was happy to wait for the right company, but after weeks of no update and again having to initiate the effort to get service, I gladly moved on to a company that came in 2 days and completed work quickly and neatly. The wife running the business and stonewalling didn't work for me. read more

Mike is always quick to respond and attentive. I highly recommend AC Electric!

Excellent service and a knowledgeable crew. They replaced a couple of landscaping uplight fixtures for me with new ones I purchased and it works great! Also inspected my electrical panel to be sure everything was wired properly. Would definitely hire again in the future! read more

These guys are spammers and they are even proud of it. When you ask them to remove them from your junk mail list, they just tell you they'll do that once you review them. Blackmail, anybody? read more

AC Electric did a great job with our copalum wiring upgrade. Very neat and professional, came on schedule and performed the work on time. Very satisfied and would recommend AC highly! read more

We have used AC Electric for two service calls. Both times Aaron was our electrician. He is very good, very nice and a pleasure to have work in your home. If you have time, ask him how he likes hockey! read more

I don't think I've ever had a home service company I've actually liked, but AC Electric has changed my attitude. Mike Short and his crew exceed expectations every time I use them. Our older home has aluminum wiring, and when we bought it, ten years ago, AC Electric was one of the few companies with the expertise to fuse the aluminum and copper wires in a safe manner. We had them fix up every connection in the house and have been using them ever since. Once Mike came out to fix a faulty fuse and knew our home layout better than us - reminded me that a corner cabinet was placed in front of a GFI outlet that tripped and was the cause of the outage. This weekend, we took a ceiling fan/light down and saw some aluminum wiring and a handyman couldn't do the job. AC Electric is out here making sure every fan is tied in safely with the aluminum wiring, for free because Mike says if they missed it then, they are finishing the job right TEN YEARS LATER! Talk about a long term commitment to customer service! They are friendly on the phone, prompt when they say they'll arrive and get the job done right. Stop wasting your time looking for an electrician and get hooked up for life with AC Electric, they're the only guys I'll be using. read more

Highly recommend AC Electric. My electricity went out today (of course on a Sunday) and when it came back on, a fuse was blown. There was a burning smell coming from an outlet and I became immediately concerned that there could be a fire behind the outlet in the wall. I called about 10 electricians that claimed to have emergency 24/7 services. AC Electric was the only one that actually answered their phone. Mike not only came out in a very timely manner, but didn't charge me an exorbitant fee for the "emergency" service. The price was more than reasonable, I easily expected to pay three times the amount he charged me. I highly recommend this company - I've put his card in our rolodex of service providers that we will definitely use again. read more

These guys are finishing a major remodel in my house and have done a great job. The price was fair for the size of the job. I got 5 electrical bids and they were competitive. They have rewired most of my house, worked easily with the electrical inspector (they passed with ease) and have accommodated my strange requests and fixture selection. Their team was always prompt and very skilled. I would gladly recommend them. read more

I have used AC Electric on three occasions and each time they were exceptional! They showed up within a couple of days of my calling, showed up on time, were extremely professional and efficient. I will call them in the future for any electrical needs and recommend them to friends and family! read more

Had a small electrical issues in a couple bathrooms so called AC since they are close/local. They were really busy so the receptionist (Debbie?) gave me some things to check and it worked!! Now that is how you gain and keep customers! AC will be my "go to" electrician from now on! read more

Prompt, courteous and reasonable (for electrical work). Replaced a GFI Breaker switch for our hot tub, but it turned out the problem was with the hot tub and had to be done by the dealer. read more