The electrician who quotes your job is the one who wires it.
The Wire Guy Electric is a family-owned, licensed electrical contractor based at 1321 N 65th St in Mesa, Arizona. We wire homes and small commercial spaces across Mesa and the East Valley, and the owner still pulls wire himself. No sales rep walks your house first. No sub crew shows up with a different idea of the scope.
Five kinds of work, all of it on the meter side of the wall.
This is the work we take, in the order Mesa homeowners and business owners ask for it. Each one has its own room, spec table and price basis on the services page.
Panel upgrades and service changes. 100A to 200A swaps, obsolete and recalled panels pulled off the wall, subpanels for shops, casitas and pool equipment. Depending on the address, SRP or the City of Mesa utility has to cut power at the meter and put it back, and the City of Mesa has to sign off. We book both. Most swaps are one working day of our time. The wait is for the utility and the inspector.
EV charger installation. Level 2 hardwired, or a NEMA 14-50 receptacle on a dedicated circuit. A 48-amp charger goes on a 60-amp breaker. That is code, not our preference. We do the load calculation before anything gets ordered, and a lot of the time it shows the existing 200A service carries the charger fine.
Lighting. Recessed LED retrofits and new cans, under-cabinet runs, ceiling fans hung from fan-rated boxes, exterior and landscape lighting on stucco and block.
Troubleshooting and repair. Breakers that trip when the AC and the dryer run together. Dead runs of outlets. A receptacle that is warm to the touch. Flicker that only shows up in the afternoon. GFCI chains where one tripped device in the garage kills the bathroom. This is meter-in-hand work, and the most common culprit we pull out of Mesa walls is a backstabbed receptacle that has cooked itself loose.
Commercial electrical. Tenant improvements, small retail and office suites, EMT conduit runs on strut, panel schedules that match what is actually on the breakers, lighting retrofits. Quoted from drawings or from a walk-through, permit fees listed on their own line.
We are a Mesa electrician first. The service area is Mesa and the East Valley, and the estimate is free and written down.
Same van.
The family that writes your estimate unloads the ladder in your driveway. If something on the scope needs to change once a wall is open, you hear it from the person who wrote it.
Quote = wire.
What is written on the estimate is what gets built. Nothing gets swapped out on the day for a cheaper part.
The written scope, line by line, and why each line is on it.
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Breaker sizes, by circuit
The scope names every new breaker and what it feeds. A 50-amp two-pole for the range receptacle, a 60-amp for a 48-amp charger. If a number changes after the walls are open, we stop and tell you before it changes on the bill.
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02
Wire gauge and material
6 AWG copper to a 50-amp receptacle. 12 AWG on 20-amp branch circuits. If your house has aluminum feeders we put that on the paper too, because they get inspected before we land anything new on them.
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Permit and inspection
Who pulls the City of Mesa permit (we do), what it covers and roughly when the inspector comes. Permit fees go on their own line so you can see what is the city's and what is ours.
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Utility coordination
On a service change the meter has to be pulled. The scope says whether that is SRP or the City of Mesa utility at your address, and that we make the call to schedule it.
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What is not included
Stucco patch painting, drywall texture matching, fixtures you are supplying. Written out so nobody argues about it at the end of the day.
Numbers we work to, written where you can check them.
We don't do a load calc in our heads. These are the figures that show up on our estimates again and again, so you know the register before we arrive.
Work we turn down, and the reason each time.
You will hear "no" from us on a few things. Each one is a failure we have been called out to fix after someone else said yes.
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Refusal 01
Aluminum branch splices on the wrong connector
Older East Valley houses have aluminum on some runs. Twisting it to copper under a standard wire nut is how outlets end up scorched. We use connectors listed for aluminum to copper, or we don't make the splice at all.
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Refusal 02
Service work without a permit
Anything on the meter, the service entrance or the main panel gets a City of Mesa permit and an inspection. Skipping it saves a few days and costs you at resale, or at the insurance claim. We won't skip it.
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Refusal 03
"Just add a breaker" on a full panel
Tandem breakers jammed into slots that aren't rated for them, or a new circuit added without a load calc, is how mains trip in August. We do the math first. Sometimes the answer is a subpanel, sometimes it is a smaller charger setting, and sometimes it really is fine.
Plenty of jobs don't need the upgrade they were sold.
A common call: someone bought an EV, got a quote elsewhere for a full 200A panel upgrade, and wants a second opinion. We run the load calculation on the existing panel. Square footage, the AC tonnage, the range, the dryer, the water heater, the pool pump if there is one. In a lot of Mesa houses already on 200A, the charger fits with room to spare. You get a dedicated 60-amp circuit, a permit, and a much smaller invoice.
Same with tripping breakers. If the breaker trips every time the AC and the dryer run together, the breaker is doing its job. The problem is what is on that circuit, and that is usually a re-route, not a new panel.
When the honest answer is that you need the bigger job, we say that too, and we show you the numbers that got us there. Read how each service is priced on the services page, or read the estimate and warranty terms in our terms.
Fair questions before you let us in the house.
Who actually comes to the site visit?
Someone from the family that runs the company, with a meter and a flashlight. The same person writes the scope and works the job. We are a small crew, so if your schedule needs four electricians on site next Monday, we are probably not the right fit and we will tell you so.
Is the estimate really free?
Yes. Panels, chargers, lighting and commercial walk-throughs are estimated free and in writing. Troubleshooting is different: finding a fault is the work itself, so that starts with a diagnostic visit, and you get a written repair price before any repair starts.
Do you do emergency calls at night?
We don't advertise round-the-clock service, because a small family crew can't promise it. Call 602-769-7892 and if we can get there, we will. If you smell burning or see smoke at the panel, call 911 and your utility first.
What happens if something you installed fails?
We come back and fix our own workmanship. The details of what that covers sit in the workmanship section of our terms.
Phone is the fastest route. We answer between jobs; if you get voicemail, leave the address and what's going on and we call back the same working day where we can.
The Wire Guy Electric
1321 N 65th St, Mesa, Arizona 85205
Email gets read by the owner and answered within a working day or two. Photos of the panel label help.