About 24/7 Electrician

24/7 Electrician is an electrical contractor based at 1315 N 47th Ave in Hollywood, Florida, working residential and commercial jobs across Broward County and into nearby Miami-Dade and southern Palm Beach County. We do panels, wiring, lighting, generators, EV chargers, three phase power, and the troubleshooting calls that come from a breaker that will not behave. Call (954) 602-0050 and you will reach a person, not a queue, day or night. This page explains how we work and what you can expect before you ever pick up the phone.

What We Actually Do

We are not a general contractor who also touches wires, and we are not a lighting showroom with a truck. Electrical work is what we do, full time, on both sides of the residential and commercial line. On the home side that means panel and service upgrades, rewiring, new circuits, outlet and switch repair, lighting, ceiling fans, GFCI and AFCI protection, generators, EV charging, and surge protection. On the commercial side it means panel upgrades, three phase power, tenant build outs, restaurant and retail electrical, warehouse and industrial work, parking lot and site lighting, exit and emergency lighting, and property management service across multiple buildings.

That range matters because a lot of the underlying skill overlaps. A load calculation for a house with a new EV charging station uses the same math as a load calculation for a strip mall suite getting a new tenant. A grounding problem in a 1970s ranch and a grounding problem in a warehouse panel are diagnosed the same way. We keep both sides of the business running because the knowledge feeds itself in both directions.

How a Job Actually Runs, From the Call to the Finished Work

Most people have never hired an electrician before and have no idea what the process looks like, so here it is plainly.

The Call

You describe what is happening: a dead outlet, a panel that looks wrong, a remodel that needs new circuits, a breaker that keeps tripping. We ask a handful of questions about the property, the age of the electrical system if you know it, and whether the condition is urgent or something that can be scheduled. We are not trying to sell you on the phone. We are trying to understand what we are walking into so the right person shows up with the right tools.

The Visit

An electrician comes out, looks at the actual condition, and tests what needs testing rather than guessing from a description. Sometimes the visible symptom and the real cause are two different things: a flickering light might be a loose neutral connection three rooms away, not a bad bulb or a bad fixture. We trace the problem to its source before we talk about fixing anything.

The Explanation and the Quote

Once we know what is actually wrong, we explain it in plain terms: what failed, why it failed, what the fix involves, and what happens if it is left alone. Pricing is quoted after we have seen the job, because an accurate number requires actually looking at the panel, the wiring, or the space, not guessing over the phone. We would rather tell you a real number once than a rough one twice.

The Work Itself

If you approve the work, we do it, and if it is the kind of job that requires a permit, we pull it and coordinate the inspection. We protect finished surfaces, we clean up after ourselves, and we test everything before we call a job finished, not just the circuit we touched but the ones around it that could be affected. A panel gets labeled before we leave it, even if the labels were wrong or missing when we arrived.

After the Job

We tell you what we found, what we did, and anything worth watching going forward. If something else on the property looked like it was heading toward a problem, even something we were not called out for, we mention it. That is not an upsell tactic. It is what a contractor who actually looks at the whole system is supposed to do.

Why an Electrical Contractor Is Not a Handyman

A handyman can hang a fixture, swap a switch, and handle a lot of small home repairs competently. What changes the calculation with electrical work is what happens when something is done wrong: a loose connection generates heat inside a wall where nobody sees it, an undersized conductor overheats under a load it was never meant to carry, a missing ground turns a metal appliance into a shock hazard the first time something fails inside it.

An electrical contractor works from the same rules every time: the National Electrical Code as adopted in Florida, load calculations that account for what a building actually draws, grounding and bonding requirements that are not optional, and permit and inspection processes that put a second set of eyes on the work before it gets covered up. That structure exists because electrical mistakes do not usually announce themselves right away. They show up as a fire, a shock, or a failed inspection during a home sale, months or years after the work was done.

We also carry the diagnostic side that a handyman generally does not: insulation testing, load calculations, tracing a fault through a wall or a slab without opening the whole house, and reading a panel to know what brand and vintage of equipment we are dealing with before we touch it. That is trade-specific knowledge built from doing this work and only this work.

There is nothing wrong with hiring a handyman for a lot of small home projects, and we are not trying to talk anyone out of that. The distinction only matters once the job involves the panel, the service entrance, new circuits, anything near water, or wiring old enough that its condition is unknown. Past that line, the risk profile changes, and so does what the work actually requires.

How We Talk About Problems

We tell you what we found, including when the answer is that nothing is wrong. If a breaker tripped once because of a specific overload and the circuit is otherwise fine, we say that instead of pushing a replacement. If a panel is old but functioning and not one of the brands with a known failure pattern, we say that too, and we let you decide the timeline for replacing it rather than manufacturing urgency.

The flip side is that we do not soften real hazards to avoid an uncomfortable conversation. If we find exposed conductors, a panel with a documented pattern of breakers that fail to trip, or wiring that has clearly overheated at a connection, we tell you plainly and explain why it matters. Some conditions are urgent and some are not, and confusing the two in either direction does not help anyone.

We also explain options instead of presenting one answer as the only answer. A house full of two-prong outlets, for example, can be handled three different honest ways depending on what is plugged in and what the budget allows. We lay those options out and let the owner choose, rather than deciding for them.

What We Will Do and What We Will Not

We will pull permits on work that requires them, test our own work before we leave, and tell you honestly if a job is bigger or smaller than it first appeared. We will explain a repair in terms you can actually use, and we will point out other issues we notice even if you did not call about them.

We will not skip a required inspection to save a step, put a bigger breaker on wiring that cannot safely carry it, or tell you a two-prong outlet is fine to leave as-is without explaining what that means. We will not do work outside our trade, like structural framing or plumbing, and we will not guess at pricing before we have actually seen the job. If a property needs work beyond electrical, we say so and let the owner bring in the right trade rather than stretching into something we do not do.

Residential and Commercial, Planned and Emergency

Homes and businesses call us for two very different reasons, and we treat them differently on purpose. Planned work, upgrades, and installations get scheduled: a panel swap, a new circuit for a kitchen remodel, a generator installation ahead of hurricane season, an EV charger before a new car arrives. That work benefits from time to plan the run, order the right equipment, and coordinate around your schedule.

Emergency calls are different. Power loss, a burning smell, sparking, a main breaker that will not reset, or storm damage to a service entrance are conditions where waiting makes things worse. We answer the phone around the clock for those calls, and we dispatch the closest available electrician rather than the next one on a list. Both kinds of work draw on the same knowledge and the same standards; only the timeline and the urgency differ.

Working With Homeowners, Property Managers, and Businesses

A single-family homeowner and a property manager overseeing a dozen buildings need the same underlying honesty but very different communication. With a homeowner, we explain things once, clearly, and answer questions until they make sense. With a property manager, we document findings so they can be shared with an owner or an insurer, and we work around occupied units and business hours whenever the job allows it.

Commercial clients, retail spaces, restaurants, offices, and warehouses each have their own operating pressure, and we plan around it rather than treating every job like a residential service call. A restaurant kitchen circuit gets scheduled around service hours when possible. A tenant build out gets coordinated with other trades on-site. A warehouse panel upgrade gets planned around what parts of the building can go without power and for how long.

We also spend a fair amount of time correcting work that was never permitted or never done right in the first place: a previous tenant's wiring left behind after a tenant build out, a subpanel fed with the wrong size conductor, circuits added over the years with no record of what feeds what. Code correction is its own category of work, and it usually starts with mapping what is actually there before anything gets changed.

Coastal South Florida Shapes How We Work

South Florida is not a neutral environment for electrical equipment. Salt-laden air corrodes meter cans, lugs, and outdoor terminations faster here than almost anywhere else in the country, and it does not stop at the beach; it reaches well inland on the wind. Hurricane season means generators, transfer switches, and surge protection are not luxury items, they are how a household or a business keeps functioning through a multi-day outage. Older housing stock across the region carries decades of partial rewires, aluminum branch wiring, and panels that were adequate in 1965 and are not adequate now.

All of that shapes what we carry on the truck, what we test for on a routine call, and what we bring up unprompted when we see it. It is regional knowledge that only comes from working here continuously, not from a general electrical background applied to a different climate.

The Full Range of Work We Cover

On the residential side: panel repair and service upgrades, whole-house and partial rewiring, outlets and switches, lighting installation, ceiling fans, GFCI and AFCI protection, dedicated circuits, generator installation, EV charging stations, surge protection, and general troubleshooting. Details on that side of the business are on our residential electrician page.

On the commercial side: commercial panel upgrades, three phase power, tenant build outs, restaurant electrical, retail and office electrical, warehouse and industrial electrical, parking lot and site lighting, exit and emergency lighting, and property management electrical service across a portfolio of buildings. And across both sides: emergency electrical repairs, code correction, and electrical wiring work of every scale, from a single home run to a full service replacement. Our services page breaks each of these out individually if you want more detail on a specific type of work.

How We Diagnose and Estimate a Job

What We Test, Not Just What We Look At

A lot of electrical diagnosis by eye is guesswork dressed up as an answer. We rely on actual measurements instead: a multimeter to check voltage and continuity, a clamp meter to see real current draw on a circuit under load, an insulation resistance tester to tell us whether old wiring is genuinely compromised or whether a single bad splice is the whole problem, and a thermal imaging check on a panel or a set of terminations when we suspect a connection is running hot. None of that is exotic equipment. It is standard for the trade, and it is the difference between replacing a part and hoping the symptom goes away versus finding the actual fault.

That habit shows up most on troubleshooting calls, where the visible symptom, a tripping breaker, a flickering light, a dead outlet, rarely points straight at the cause. A breaker that trips only in the afternoon might be reacting to heat building up in an attic run. An outlet that goes dead only when another appliance turns on might be sharing a loose connection three boxes away. We would rather spend the time tracing it correctly than replace parts on a guess and have the same call come back in a month.

What Makes a Job Take Longer Than Planned

We try to give an honest timeline once we have seen a job, but electrical work sometimes uncovers more than the original complaint. Opening a wall to run a new circuit can reveal a splice that was never in a box, wiring that does not match what the panel labels claim, or a connection that has clearly overheated in the past without anyone noticing. When that happens, we stop and explain what we found before continuing, rather than quietly expanding the scope and explaining it on the invoice.

The same is true in reverse. Sometimes a job that sounded large on the phone turns out to be a single loose connection or one failed device, and we tell you that too. We are not trying to fill a day with billable hours. We are trying to fix what is actually wrong, and that number is not always predictable until someone with a meter is standing in front of the panel.

Where We Work

We are based in Hollywood and work throughout Broward County, plus the nearby Miami-Dade communities of Aventura, Golden Beach, North Miami, North Miami Beach, and Sunny Isles Beach, and into Boca Raton and Delray Beach in southern Palm Beach County. Our service area page breaks that territory down in more detail, including how the housing and building stock differs from the coast to the western suburbs to the equestrian communities further inland.

Talk to Us

If you want to know whether a problem is urgent, whether your panel needs attention, or what a project would actually involve before you commit to anything, call (954) 602-0050. We will ask a few questions, tell you honestly what we think is going on, and take it from there. For general questions or to reach us another way, our contact page has what you need. We answer the phone around the clock, and we dispatch the closest available electrician to get to you.