Our Story
In a way our company’s journey began around 1995 when a nine year old boy, our primary technician Michael Murdock, who is the son of a second generation carpenter began helping his dad fix their home. When he was seven his parents moved to a beautiful 200+ year old home with invisible features that only his father could see. Times were tough and contractors were not cheap so Michael was tasked with following direction and assisting his father in bringing those features to life. He did a lot of go-for work and ladder holding but eventually he installed his first recessed lights before entering high school. This was just the beginning of the skills he would acquire working on his childhood home.
At the age of 18 Michael’s father began purchasing real estate investment homes that provided an outlet for honing construction skills at a crucial time in a young man’s life and career. He found digging foundations and hanging drywall and sawing lumber and painting walls to be mind numbing and back-breaking work. On one job an outside electrician who also worked as a teacher at a reputable vocational tech school was hired and Michael’s father negotiated a price decrease if Michael was provided as free labor for the electrician. This was the first time that Michael was responsible for conducting his own wiring (under the watchful eye of the electrician). At the moment his first newly installed light turned on a thought began to form that this craft is absolute magic and he would do everything in his power to become an electrician and never lift another sheet of drywall. The trade was not easy to learn but Michael’s uncle Chip, who had built a respectable construction operation in California, had mastered it and he was beyond generous with his knowledge and encouragement. He taught Michael that in this trade we take our clients’ lives in our hands and that safety is the most vital aspect of the final product. Our company would not exist without uncle Chip.
In 2011 Michael recruited his longtime friend Michael Boyd, who also grew up working construction and the two of them did their first outside job. It was a painting job but the second was a ceiling fan and the third was an exterior GFCI. Since then Mike and Mike have done over 300 electrical services, hung thousands of recessed lights and ceiling fans, installed thousands of receptacles, and have suffered dozens of minor electrocutions (the kind that build character, nothing serious). During this time they found that many of the things taught by uncle Chip were not present in the field. Some homes did not have proper grounding, some circuits did not have adequate overcurrent protection, many many circuits were improperly installed by generations of DIYers. It was upon the realization that so much danger was present across the planet from faulty electrical components that we set out to make every electrical circuit a safe circuit.
