About Standard Electric
Standard Electric has served Waltham and the surrounding Route 128 corridor with the kind of straight-talk service that only comes from decades on the same streets. Our licensed electricians know this housing stock cold — from the triple-deckers off Moody Street still wired with knob-and-tube from the 1920s to the postwar capes that were never built for modern loads. When we walk into your home, we're not guessing; we're diagnosing.
A huge share of our calls in Waltham, Newton, and Watertown start the same way: a homeowner's 60-amp or 100-amp service can't keep up with a new kitchen, an EV charger, or central air. We handle full 200-amp service heavy-ups from the meter pan to the panel, coordinated with the utility and inspected properly, so you're not left with a half-finished upgrade or a code violation buried in the wall. We treat every home like it's the one we'd want worked on ourselves — drop cloths down, work areas cleaned, and crews that show up when they say they will.
Beyond the panel work, our team designs and installs architectural recessed lighting for the renovations and additions going up all over Waltham's older neighborhoods — layouts that account for joist bays, insulation contact ratings, and dimming compatibility, not just holes cut wherever looks convenient. Whether it's remediating old knob-and-tube before an insurance inspection or lighting a finished basement the right way, we bring the same supply-house-level product knowledge our counter customers have relied on for years.