I was so pleased with the service I received from Kennedy Electric! I called today and requested someone come fix a shorted out electrical outlet. Anna was so pleasant and was able to help me diagnose the problem and fix it! What a pleasure to have HONEST businesses! I will use Kennedy Electric if I need assistance in the future. read more

I called this company to inquire if they were interested in doing a very small job which was replacing one exterior light fixture. They said yes and asked me to send a picture of the current light fixture so they could see what I wanted. I did that on 10/11/17. I sent a follow up email on 10/30/17. As of this date, I have received no response. If they decided they don't want to do the job, would it really be that difficult for them to step up and say so? I'm also going to report this result to the place that referred them. Now it's a month later and I have to start from scratch. They must have all the business they need because they won't get mine or anyone else who asks me about them. Inappropriate, unprofessional, and just downright unbelieiveable! read more

Highly recommend Tom Kennedy Electric. I have used him for all my electrical work. Excellent work. Very dependable and honest

I hired Kennedy Electric to upgrade our decades old service panel to a new 200 amp. I also had them ground 5 outlets in the house. Tom was polite and prompt to come to the house and give me an estimate. It did take a day or two longer than originally stated to finally receive the estimate, but I attribute my irritation with this to me being in a mad rush to get everything done by our deadline. When I told techs from other companies what Kennedy Electric had quoted, they were surprised and told me I was given a sweet deal. When it came time for the work, the technicians showed up bright and early. I don't even remember these guys taking a break, maybe they just rotated without me knowing, but it seemed like they worked all day. The techs encountered a few daunting issues: *There was some debris in front of the easiest access to the panel, meaning the techs had to walk around the house to get to it. While I would have liked to have it cleared and easy for them, I hadn't gotten around to it. They didn't complain at all and took it in stride. *The house wasn't grounded. They weren't aware of this when showing up to the site (I hadn't concealed it, we had just bought the house so I was clueless). They installed a ground rod at no extra cost. *We have a pretty cramped attic, and climbing through it to ground outlets must have been a real pain. I've been up there more times than I care to admit, and it's no fun. Again they did this without complaining. I was very pleased with the work ethic and demeanor of the techs from Kennedy Electric. The quality of their work was also top notch, as the new panel looks awesome, functions great and will last for a few more decades for sure. The techs even labeled the outlets that had been grounded for me. I casually asked one of the techs if I could get a discounted price on one of the outlet grounds if they were back-to-back with another outlet that they would be working on. My thought was it was technically less work. He said he would ask about it, but I didn't expect results, it was sort of a long shot. Sure enough, when the invoice came in, I had received an almost 50% discount on that outlet ground. I was impressed. Fast forward to the city inspection. A new city code as of January 2014 required *two* ground rods be installed, not just one. Kennedy Electric sent a tech out within a day or two (can't recall exactly), to install the second ground rod. Again, at no extra cost to me. Fast forward to SDGE inspection. Apparently SDGE mandated that a new line be run from the pole to our house. I wasn't made aware of this and SDGE sent out their contractor to take care of it. Luckily I was home, shame on SDGE for not properly notifying me. When the contractors arrived I called Anna Kennedy, who immediately put Tom on the phone, who in turn spoke with the contractors, and then explained to me what was going on. The contractors took care of the new line, and again, Tom said he would take care of it, meaning no extra cost to me. Our overall experience with this company was definitely a 5/5. Here's the breakdown: *Price: 5/5 (would give it 6/5, but...math) *Quality of work: 5/5 *Demeanor: 5/5 *Communication: 4/5 (just minor hiccups here & there as mentioned earlier) read more

Kennedy Electric has been my personal and extended families go to electrician for over 15 years. The service, price, value and customer service they provide is beyond compare. I never hesitate to refer them when ANYONE needs an electrician. We recently had solar installed at our home and the contractors commented on the electrical panel and how it was so easy for them to do their work since the panel was all up to date and could hold the new load of the panels. Kennedy installed it and the work is exceptional and noted by other contractors as superior work performed. Having a great electrician is a valuable asset for any homeowner and I am very fortunate and grateful for Kennedy Electric. They have never let me down.! read more

I had Tom Kennedy come over to give me an estimate. A few weeks later I sent him an email asking for clarification of his quote and and his secretary promptly responded and told me he was on vacation. Waited several days after Tom's return without receiving a reply and so I called him, only to be told that he had never received the email from his secretary. I explained my requirements and asked him to provide clarification on the model of service panel that he was proposing to install. He said he would send me that information. The next day I received a call from his secretary Anna asking me if I had signed the contract and I explained to her that I was waiting for Tom to send me the part number for the panel. She transferred me to Tom, who immediately began screaming at me that I misled him into thinking I had already signed the contract (I said no such thing and had no intention to mislead him) and that he didn't have time for this crap and he wasn't going to stand for me being abusive to his secretary. I was dumbfounded and suggested that perhaps he was confusing me with someone else or that we had had some other kind of misunderstanding, but he was so irate that I couldn't talk him down. Needless to say after that call I chose to hire a different electrician. read more

I mysteriously lost power to 2/3rds of my home on a Sunday. I called Kennedy Electric right at 8am on Monday morning, and they had the owner out at my place by 10am. He had the whole thing fixed, and replaced an outlet in a bathroom within an hour, for a very reasonable price. They know their stuff!! Very happy! =^) read more

From setting up the service call until completion of the job in less than five hours! Anna was great on the phone; the electrician, Mike, got his prior job done and Anna called and got me set up for an earlier time slot. Mike found a tricky fault really fast (I used to do electrical work and was amazed how quickly he diagnosed this. I would have totally missed it). Great service at a fair price, how can you beat that. Definitely recommend Kennedy Electric to anyone looking for great service. read more

A few years ago I had Kennedy Electric upgrade my house in La Mesa from 100 amp to 200 amp service and I am still MAD at how poorly the work was performed! I wanted to put in a brand new panel at the street with lots of space and I also asked to have a new 100amp sub-panel put into the garage in anticipation of running some more woodworking tools and maybe even a small welder. I explained where I wanted the sub panel and that I wanted the panel with "lots of extra space" so that I could grow into additional circuits in the future. I told them where I wanted the panel to be but they put it on another wall anyway. I also wanted a couple of new circuits put into a bedroom for a computer and a few in the kitchen to run the microwave etc. I asked that all the new circuits be run directly back to the main panel. When they finished they ran all the new circuits back to the small undersized subpanel in the garage and filled it nearly completely up! Thus I paid for expansion and got none of this. Everytime I go into my garage I get pissed off again at Kennedy Electric. If it were not for shows such as Holmes on Homes and Holmes Inspection I never would have found out how badly I was taken by Kennedy Electric. What I need now is a competent electrician to come back into my house and rewire it entirely to fix all the screw-ups that the incompetent Kennedy Electric made. This will no doubt cost several thousand dollars if not more to fix. Save yourself the headache and heartburn and find another electric contractor who actually listens to the customer instead of these bozos. read more

I thought I had a great electrician already, but people leave, and the company I used previously no longer had the key guy I wanted. In any case, since they couldn't come for several weeks, they gave me a reference to Kennedy Electric. I had lights out along the length of the house, plus breezeway, and the entire garage. So weird. I had already spent $300 having a handyman and a retired electrician (he said he was) trying to find the problem, and individually they both concluded finding it would probably require a series of drills into the wall from where the electricity comes in on the other side of the house. I was dreading what seemed to be shaping up. Then Mike, Kennedy's guy, came and by gosh found the problem in 25 minutes, fixed it in another 10, and put back a socket Mr. Retired Electrician had left hanging out. Cost was $109. Yes, I would hire Kennedy - and Mike - again in a New York minute. Another nice thing was that he told me not to go wild and try to put in a big fix since he felt what he did would be both safe and durable. read more