Yes, on every job that requires one. We file with your town inspectional services office, attend rough-in and final inspections, and close out the permit when the work passes. Permits are included in the fixed-price scope.

Service · Residential

Residential electrical done by the master.

Kitchen remodels, lighting plans, switches, outlets, panel work, repairs. Licensed, fixed-price scope, permits in the master’s name. Built around bigger residential projects in SE Massachusetts.

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Electrician licensed 2024
Generac dealer + warranty tech
Panasonic Gold mini split installer
Mass Save partner · Insured & bonded

Recently remodeled kitchen in Taunton, MA with pendant lighting and recessed cans installed by Hopkins Electric

Kitchen remodel · Recent work

Massachusetts Electrician
Generac Dealer + Warranty Tech
Panasonic Gold Mini Split Installer
Mass Save Partner

What we do

Coordinated residential work, start to finish.

Bigger residential work is what we built the shop around. We coordinate with your cabinet installer and counter shop so your pendants land over the island, your outlets land where the appliance actually sits, and your switch legs fit the lighting plan instead of the wall.

Kitchen remodels. Pendants, recessed cans, under-cabinet lighting, range circuits, fridge and microwave dedicated lines, GFCI placement at counters, dimmer-switch programming. We work to the cabinet installer’s schedule.

Lighting design and installs. Recessed cans laid out from a real plan, sconces wired to the right switch leg, exterior lighting and security floods, smart-switch retrofits.

Outlets, switches, repairs. Kitchen and bath GFCI replacements, outlet relocations, three-way switch troubleshooting, hot tub and pool circuits, dryer and range outlet upgrades.

Whole-house projects. Knob-and-tube replacement, generator integration, EV charger installation, mini split commissioning. Material we spec is commercial-grade wire, breakers, and boxes, not box-store specials.

The same standard as commercial. Permits in the Electrician’s name, labeled panel diagrams, photos at every rough-in. None of what we do is a premium service; it is the residential job done right.

Residential electrical is the everyday work: the panel that won’t stop tripping, the kitchen circuit that browns out when the toaster and the microwave run together, the new lighting in the basement remodel, the GFCI outlet in the master bath that died last Tuesday, the bathroom fan that needs replacing, the recessed cans your designer specced for the kitchen reno, the smoke-and-CO detector replacements the home inspector flagged on your pre-sale walkthrough, the knob-and-tube wiring still active in the third-floor bedroom of a 1920s Taunton or Fall River triple-decker. Hopkins Electric runs all of it across Taunton, Brockton, Fall River, Attleboro, Randolph, Stoughton, and the rest of Bristol, Plymouth, and Norfolk counties. Hopkins runs this work in-house, so you don’t get a sales-rep walk-through followed by an unfamiliar crew on install day. The Electrician is on the project from the quote through close-out. Permits in Tyler’s license number on every job that pulls one. Documented work that lives in the file.

**Residential service**Hopkins Electric serving homes across Taunton, MA

Trouble-shooting and electrical diagnostics in older Massachusetts homes

Roughly half of residential-electrical service calls in southeastern MA are trouble-shooting work: the kitchen lights flicker on a windy day, the dryer outlet won’t run a heater plugged in for testing, the basement smells like burning plastic for thirty seconds and then doesn’t, the bedroom GFCI keeps tripping, the smoke detector chirps at 3am and won’t stop. Tyler shows up with a Fluke 87V meter, a Klein NCVT voltage detector, an Ideal Sure-Test for outlet diagnostics, and a thermal camera for the cases where the answer is hiding in a wall. Most diagnostic calls find the problem in 30-90 minutes: a corroded neutral in the basement junction box, a backstabbed outlet that worked itself loose, a bonded neutral-and-ground in a subpanel that should have been isolated, a wirenut on the splice in the attic that finally let go after thirty years. Diagnostic fee applied to repair cost if you proceed with the work. Documentation of root cause delivered with the proposal so you understand what we found and why the fix matters.

Additions, renovations, and rough-in electrical work for SE-MA contractors

Building a finished basement in Taunton? Adding a master suite onto a Brockton ranch? Tearing out a kitchen in Fall River for a full reno? Hopkins handles the electrical rough-in (cable from panel to box, fish-and-staple per MA amendments to NEC 334), the trim (devices, plates, fixtures, dimmers), and the inspection. Permits filed in the master’s name, work documented, the wiring inspector signs the certificate of compliance to Tyler at completion. We coordinate cleanly with general contractors, kitchen designers, bath remodelers, and the rest of the trades on the project. We understand framing inspection sequencing, drywall holds, the order in which trim work lands. Most general contractors in southeastern MA who work with Hopkins on a project specify Hopkins on the next project too.

Lighting design, recessed retrofits, and dimmer compatibility for older Massachusetts homes

Recessed lighting retrofits, replacing 4-inch and 6-inch incandescent cans with LED downlights, are a standard residential job, and ninety percent of the units sold at the big-box stores have terrible color quality, awful CRI, and dimmer-compatibility issues that make them flicker on triac dimmers. Hopkins specifies Cree, Halco, Lithonia, or Williams units with documented CRI 90+, color temperatures that match the rest of the room (typically 2700K-3000K for living areas, 3000K-3500K for kitchens), and dimmer-compatible drivers (paired with Lutron Maestro CL or Diva CL dimmers for cleanest behavior). We carry top-quality fixtures but we install whatever you want. Bring the boxes from the showroom and we’ll trim them to spec. Three-way and four-way circuits done right, smart switches (Lutron Caséta, Leviton Decora Smart) wired with neutrals where the device requires one, low-voltage landscape and exterior wiring all on professional-grade GFCI protection.

Pre-sale inspection prep and code-correction punch lists in Bristol/Plymouth/Norfolk MA

Selling a home in southeastern MA means an MLS listing, a buyer’s home inspection, and a punch list of electrical callouts that the inspector flagged: missing GFCI in bathrooms or kitchens, missing AFCI on bedroom circuits in older homes, ungrounded outlets in 1950s wiring, missing tamper-resistant outlets in living areas, junction boxes with no covers in the attic, knob-and-tube wiring still live behind the walls, smoke and CO detector compliance for resale (every floor including basement, every sleeping area, hardwired with battery backup per MA amendments). Hopkins runs the punch list, and we can also do the inspection-prep walk-through before you list (full panel review, circuit testing, recommendations) so you walk into the buyer’s inspection clean and avoid post-inspection price negotiations.

Knob-and-tube replacements in 1920s-1940s Massachusetts triple-deckers

A surprising amount of southeastern Massachusetts housing stock, particularly in Taunton, Brockton, Fall River, and Attleboro’s older neighborhoods, still has active knob-and-tube wiring in third-floor bedrooms, attic spaces, and back-of-the-house additions. Knob-and-tube isn’t inherently dangerous if it’s intact, but it has no equipment grounding conductor, can’t be insulated over per most MA insurance carriers, and most home insurance companies will exclude it on a new policy. We do complete knob-and-tube replacements: fishing new MC cable through finished walls where possible, opening minimal drywall where it’s not, transitioning the legacy circuits onto modern AFCI-protected branches, and certifying the replacement to your insurance carrier. Coordinated cleanly with insulators if you’re combining the replacement with attic insulation.

Hopkins Electric runs residential service work (troubleshooting, additions, lighting retrofits, panel work, knob-and-tube replacements, pre-sale inspection prep) across Taunton, Brockton, Fall River, Attleboro, Randolph, Stoughton, and every town within a 35-mile radius of our Berkley Street headquarters. Electrician on every job, permits filed in Tyler’s name where the work pulls one, fixed-price scopes on anything more than a single-circuit fix, and a documented certificate of compliance signed to the master license at every inspected completion.

How we run residential work

Three steps. Fixed-price. Permitted.

Walk-through quote

Tyler walks the project with you and writes a fixed-price scope on the back of the walkthrough. Free, no obligation.

Permits and materials

Permits pulled in the master’s name. Commercial-grade wire, breakers, and boxes. No box-store specials, no field substitutions.

Install and labeled panel

Job closes with a labeled panel diagram taped inside the dead-front and photos for your records.

Frequently asked

Common questions before booking.

For anything not answered here, the fastest reply is texting Tyler at (508) 818-3165 or sending project details through the contact form. Visit our gallery for recent work.

Do you do small repairs or only big projects?

Both. Small repair or whole-home renovation, the work follows the same sequence: walk-through, fixed-price scope, permitted install, labeled close-out.

Can you coordinate with my contractor or kitchen designer?

Yes. We schedule around the cabinet installer and the counter shop and we read the lighting plan before we drill anything. The pendants land where you want them, the outlets land where the appliance sits.

Are you licensed?

Yes. Tyler Hopkins is a Massachusetts Electrician (license earned 2024). Hopkins Electric LLC is fully insured and bonded. We pull permits in the Electrician’s name on every job that requires one.

Do you pull permits?

Yes. Every Hopkins job that requires a permit gets a permit, filed in Tyler’s master license number with the town wiring inspector. We don’t run unpermitted electrical work. The permit fee is included in the proposal. Permitted work is documented in your town’s permanent record, signed by the inspector to the master license, and matters for homeowner’s insurance, refinance, and resale.

Do you offer a free quote?

Yes. The walk-through quote is free. Tyler runs every quote personally and writes a fixed-price scope on the back of a real walkthrough, not a number pulled from a software tool.

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