Had a terrible experience with Villa Electric. They showed up to set up, turned off all the electricity at our house, then left everything for 6 days without communicating to us what was happening. We had to call and ask them about it because we had scheduled to have other contractors come in based on the timeline he gave us.
He left apprentices unsupervised to do the work (which is illegal in CA), and they made several mistakes which had to be fixed. Because they were unsupervised, those mistakes weren't caught until after the fact, after we had been told it was done and that it was okay for the dry wall team to repair the walls. This meant they had to reopen the walls and redo painting that had already been done. His response to the other crew was simply, "invoice me". He had absolutely no respect for the other team's work or time.
They also broke 3 lights. One of those lights he told us he would reimburse the cost of the light and replace it. Another one he refused to take responsibility for, and we are having to replace on our own.
Additionally, his team wired something incorrectly in one room, creating an open neutral. This caused the breaker to flip. It was after we had been told that all of the work was done. He had to come back to repair it.
His team was also extremely messy and left behind trash. This wasn't just trash from the work they had completed -- they also left fast food trash on top of their electrical trash, outside of our house where rodents could get into it. We had to call him to have them remove the trash they left behind. When they did remove it, they confused some bags we had in the garage that had camping gear in it for their trash and threw out our camping bags along with it.
They initially told us they would take 2 weeks to do the job, but it ended up taking at least a month. This delayed all of the work we were having done, costing us time and resources. We are still waiting for him to come fix one of the lights and to reimburse us for the cost of the hardware.
At one point, we considered switching electricians midway through because we lost confidence in their ability to do the job correctly. I'm still worried that there are things we will have to correct later on, and am just hoping that there are no major safety issues.
Do not use this electrician. While he himself may be licensed and know how to do the work, he leaves the majority of the work to unsupervised apprentices, creating safety issues and delaying the work overall. read more