Half your house loses power for no clear reason, an outlet quits working, or a switch starts buzzing, and now you're standing in your basement or a closet staring at a panel you don't fully understand. At Craig Faria Electrician, we've handled electrical service calls and repairs in and around Taunton, MA, since 1996, and we know the hardest part is often just finding someone who picks up the phone and actually shows up. Small problems tend to get worse the longer they sit, so getting eyes on it early usually saves both money and aggravation.
Located in Taunton, MA, Craig Faria Electrician provides electrical services throughout Bristol and Plymouth counties. Our crew handles emergency electrical service, troubleshooting, power outage assistance, equipment and lighting repairs, and circuit issue resolution for homes, businesses, and industrial facilities.
Here's what makes these calls tricky. Everything works fine until it doesn't, and by the time somebody arrives to look at it, the problem has disappeared. You end up feeling a little foolish describing lights that flicker only on humid evenings or a breaker that trips exactly twice a month.
The underlying cause is almost always a connection that's failing slowly. Wire nuts back off over decades of heating and cooling, backstabbed receptacles lose tension on the contact, aluminum branch wiring in seventies-era homes oxidizes at the terminations, and rodents chew insulation in attics and crawl spaces. Each of these creates resistance, resistance creates heat, and heat makes the connection worse until it either opens up completely or starts a much bigger problem.
Finding it takes a systematic approach rather than guesswork. Our licensed electrician will map the affected circuit, test voltage under load instead of at rest, check terminations at every device on the run, look at the panel for loose lugs and warm breakers, and use a thermal camera where the situation calls for it. Once the fault surfaces, we repair it properly, which might mean re-terminating devices, replacing a damaged section of wire, correcting a junction somebody buried in a wall, or swapping out equipment that's simply reached the end of its life.
What you get afterward is peace of mind about something that had been nagging at you. The circuit holds, nothing gets warm, and you stop wondering whether that smell you noticed last month meant anything. Most of these repairs cost far less than people expect, especially compared to what happens when they're ignored.
Our team handles everyday electrical problems and urgent failures with a practical repair process suited to the property and the equipment involved.
Diagnosing the strange stuff is a good portion of what fills our week. Our electrical repair services start with understanding what you're seeing, when it happens, and what changed recently, then testing methodically until the cause turns up. You'll get a plain-English explanation of what went wrong, since electrical repairs are a lot easier to approve when you understand what you're paying for.
Some situations genuinely can't wait, like a burning smell near the panel, sparking from a receptacle, or storm damage to a service entrance. Emergency electrical service from our team means somebody responds rather than putting you on a list for next week.
Overloaded circuits, shorts, ground faults, and breakers that won't stay set all point toward something specific. Tracing the issue back to its source lets us fix the actual cause, whether that means redistributing the load, adding a dedicated circuit, or replacing damaged wiring.
Appliances, HVAC equipment, pumps, and machinery all depend on the circuits feeding them, and the fault often lies on the electrical side rather than in the unit itself. Testing the supply, the disconnect, and the terminations usually clarifies quickly where the problem sits. Coordinating with your equipment technician is something we're glad to do when the issue crosses over.
Fixtures that flicker, buzz, or refuse to come on can stem from the ballast, the driver, the dimmer, the fixture itself, or the wiring behind it. Our lighting repairs cover interior and exterior fixtures, recessed cans, undercabinet runs, parking lot poles, and emergency lighting. Upgrading to LED at the same time often makes sense, since it cuts both energy use and how often anyone has to get on a ladder.
Dead receptacles, warm cover plates, loose outlets, and switches that need jiggling are among the most common calls we take. Replacing worn devices with properly terminated ones takes very little time and eliminates a surprisingly frequent source of trouble.
Losing power in one part of a building while the rest works points to something on your end rather than the utility's. Partial outages typically trace back to a failed breaker, a burned lug, or a loose neutral, all of which need attention quickly. Any experienced electrical contractor treats a lost neutral as urgent, because the voltage swings that follow can damage everything plugged in.
Downtime hits businesses and plants differently than it hits a home, and the response has to match that. Electrical service calls at commercial and industrial properties cover equipment failures, lighting outages, panel problems, and control issues, scheduled around your hours whenever possible. Our crew has worked in restaurants, retail spaces, apartment buildings, and manufacturing facilities throughout the region.
A restaurant kitchen, retail floor, and office suite all use electricity differently, so we shape the work around the building and the people using it. We handle commercial electrical services such as generator installation, tenant improvements, maintenance, system upgrades, troubleshooting, and everyday service needs.
Production schedules don't leave much room for unexplained shutdowns, unreliable machinery, or overloaded electrical equipment. With our industrial electrical services, we support plants and manufacturing facilities through machine wiring, equipment installation, generator work, preventive maintenance, power distribution, and system diagnostics.
Electrical work in a multiunit property often requires balancing tenant access, shared systems, renovation schedules, and the owner's long-term plans. We provide multifamily electrical services for apartments and condominium communities, including unit updates, common lighting, generators, maintenance, and building service upgrades.
Details matter in a custom home, especially when lighting, automation, appliances, and specialty features all need to work together. Our high-end residential electrical services cover new builds and additions with custom wiring, dedicated circuits, smart controls, designer fixtures, panel improvements, remodeling work, and standby generators.
Sometimes an electrical panel still turns the lights on but no longer has the space or capacity to support what you're adding. We offer electrical panel upgrades and service changes for older equipment, undersized services, meter updates, breaker replacements, code corrections, capacity increases, and urgent panel failures.
Long before a property is ready for outlets and lighting, crews need a clear path for bringing electrical power onto the site. We complete underground utility and primary electrical services involving trench coordination, conduit systems, underground feeders, transformer connections, service entrances, distribution equipment, and new-build infrastructure.
A trouble signal or failed alarm component can be confusing, especially when you're trying to prepare for an inspection or open a new building. We work on fire alarm systems by installing new equipment, updating addressable systems, replacing devices, checking operation, locating faults, and addressing code requirements.
We bring a steady approach, clear explanations, and respect for your property to every repair visit.
Trouble tends to show up at inconvenient hours, so we take urgent calls when waiting simply isn't a safe option.
Backup power installations on our jobs use Generac and Kohler equipment, brands we install because they perform when everything else has stopped.
Every repair carries a one-year workmanship warranty, giving you a clear path forward if the same issue ever resurfaces.
More than 20 years across residential, commercial, and industrial work sharpen how quickly our crew narrows down a problem, and our membership in the Massachusetts Electrical Contractors Association reflects the standards we hold ourselves to.
Yes, an electrician can determine whether the problem comes from a tripped circuit, damaged connection, failed equipment, panel issue, or utility-side outage. Electrical service calls and repairs focus on finding which part of the system lost power before making a safe repair.
Call the fire department immediately when you notice sparks, arcing, short circuits, sizzling, buzzing, smoke, or a burning odor. Other warning signs, including frequent breaker trips, flickering lights, warm outlets, and mild shocks, call for electrical service calls and repairs from a licensed electrician soon.
Turn off or unplug equipment on the affected circuit, and avoid resetting the breaker repeatedly. Electrical service calls and repairs can identify an overloaded circuit, damaged wiring, a faulty appliance, or a failing breaker before the problem gets worse.
Start with a licensed electrician when flickering affects several fixtures, keeps returning, or happens alongside buzzing, warmth, or breaker problems. Electrical service calls and repairs can trace the issue to a loose connection, overloaded circuit, failing device, or another problem within the property.
A tripped breaker, activated ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) device, failed receptacle, loose connection, or damaged circuit can shut down several outlets at once. Electrical service calls and repairs locate the break in the circuit and address the cause without relying on guesswork or unsafe do-it-yourself testing.
FAQs reviewed by Craig Faria, owner of Craig Faria Electrician, a licensed electrician based in Taunton, MA.
Our team can track down the issue, explain what went wrong, and help get your property back to normal. Contact our team to schedule service in Taunton or a nearby community.
Business Name: Craig Faria Electrician
Address: Taunton, MA, 02780
Phone: 508-509-0076
Business Hours:
Mon - Fri: 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Sat-Sun: Closed
Emergency Service Available
One-year workmanship warranty.
