Do not let this man build your home or be your contractor. He short cut my entire home. Let's back up, my husband and I purchased a BRAND new home in 2005 as a young couple starting a family. TEN years later we find a huge rotted mess of a house with black mold. Windows were never taped or wrapped correctly, siding was just put on over the windows....what did that do? Cause water to run behind the siding and cause the wood to rot and mold. We have spent so much money fixing his short cuts. We have contacted Mr Bell in the past and basically he doesn't care and has not tried to fix a thing....he has offered to come out and take a look but never shows up or calls again. This has been a nightmare for our family and I would NEVER recommend him to anyone for any thing. read more

Bell Electric - Some of the mess before it was fixed the RIGHT way - General Contractors Near Me - Crescent City, Illinois

Here's what I learned about working with the electrician Wade Bell of Bell Electric in Crescent City and Watseka, IL. He did not complete work on time. He did not pay attention to my needs as a client. He prioritizes his own private activities and other clients over his commitment to me to complete work on a specific schedule. I hired Bell Electric in 2017 to rewire my home. He said that he would start in March and would finish within two weeks. Four months later in May he still wasn't finished and I find myself having to call him repeatedly to push him to get work done. The typical routine would be the following: At the beginning of the week, I would call him and tell him that he is behind schedule and he needs to complete work at the house. He commits to having the work completed over the next two weeks. I watch the security cameras at the house while I am at work during the week, and I find that around 3 pm on Friday he shows up to do about one hour's worth of work. Sometimes that work involves setting up a ladder and running one single wire in order to make it look like he had been there actually getting work done. Each week he would have a different excuse: he has club meetings to go to; he's going on vacation; he's going turkey hunting; he's going out of town; he's going camping; he has farmers he works for; he has other clients. I finally gave him an ultimatum and told him to finish the work or return a portion of the money that I had paid him. He did neither. After five months, I finally fired him and hired a new electrician. The new contractor spent less than one week and the house, finished all remaining work, and actually cared about what I wanted and needed as the homeowner and client. If you want a contractor who will not complete work on time and not care about your needs as a client or the commitments he has made, then Wade Bell of Bell Electric in Crescent City and Watseka, IL is the electrical contractor for you. read more

I contacted Mr Bell just before the weekend before 4th of July holiday 2015 I drove from Chicago down to Crescent City to meet with him to install a electrical box when I met with him he took the electrical box he said he had all the parts to put it on and he would have it on before the 4th of July weekend because the next weekend he had to finish up on a house and after finishing up on the house, after that he was going to go on vacation on Thursday before the 4th of July he contacted me and told me he didn't have a part to be able to install the box on the pole therefore I waited a week because he told he was going on vacation to contact him, after contacting him he told me he was just leaving on vacation so for 3 weeks he held my box and I had no way of getting anybody else to put the box up so I lost an entire month of using my trailer because he didn't contact me and He didn't make arrangements for me to pick up the box or make arrangements with somebody else to hold the box for me so I could find the part and then on top of that he tells me it's going to be between you know about 10 minutes to hook up the wires and so he charged me for 2 hours labor to hook up 4 wires plus they charge me for multiple parts that he said he did have and that I wouldn't have to worry about those and then overcharge me I think his customer service sucked and he held my box so I couldn't get anybody else to install it before the 4th of July so I completely lost a month of using my trailer bad bad service do not use this person, he does tell the truth and what should have be a10 minute job according to him, he just went with over charging. read more