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About Us

We publish what the rules actually say about electrical work across the Austin metro — sourced, dated, and specific to your permit office and your utility. The work itself is carried out by electricians licensed by the state.

We publish what the rules actually say about electrical work in the Austin metro, and we put people who need that work done in touch with contractors licensed by the state to do it.

What we do

Two things. We research and publish the rules — permits, licensing, utility processes — sourced and dated. And when you call or send the form, we put you in touch with an electrical contractor who holds their own licence from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, works your city and your utility's territory, and answers for the work under that licence.

That is the whole business. Nobody here installs a panel, pulls a permit, supervises a job or prices one.

How it makes money, plainly

Contractors pay for the introduction. That is worth stating in the first paragraph you read about us rather than in the small print, because it should change how you read everything else on the site.

What it means in practice: we have an interest in you calling someone. We do not have an interest in you calling any particular someone, and we earn nothing from what the job eventually costs. Where the honest answer to a question is “you may not need this work at all”, the pages here say so — the panel upgrade page says most houses need a panel that is not full rather than a bigger service, and the generator page says to price a portable unit before assuming you need a permanent one.

Why we do not do the work ourselves

Because we are not licensed to, and Texas is specific about what that means. Occupations Code section 1305.151 says a person or business may not perform or offer to perform electrical work without the appropriate licence.

So the line we hold is not about pronouns — it is about verbs. We publish, we research, we put you in touch with people. We do not install, repair, rewire or upgrade anything, and we never describe ourselves as though we did. The build enforces that: a page claiming otherwise does not get published.

The line under every headline says what we do, in those words. It is not a formality bolted on at the end; it is the thing that makes the rest of it legitimate.

What gets published here, and what does not

Our factual claims come from the authority that made them: the state's licensing rules and administrative code, the city's adopted technical codes and homeowner permit conditions, the utility's own contractor guidance, and the federal regulator's published findings on aluminium wiring.

Our guides carry a full source list and a written-and-checked date at the bottom of the page. Service and area pages name their authorities in the text but do not yet carry that block — we are adding it. We would rather tell you which pages meet the standard than claim all of them do.

Things you will not find here, deliberately:

• Reviews, ratings or testimonials. None. Not a star, not a count, not a quote from a satisfied homeowner. The rest of this market competes on review volume and we cannot verify a single one of them.
• Cost figures that are not sourced. We publish exactly one dollar amount across the whole site, and it is a rebate ceiling published by the utility. Numbers circulate for this market with no source and no date attached; repeating them while claiming sourcing as the point would be self-defeating.
• Licence numbers, credentials or insurance claims of our own. We hold none and should hold none.
• Service promises. No round-the-clock availability, no promises about how fast someone will arrive, no assurance that an estimate costs nothing. Those are undertakings about work performed by other people, and we are not in a position to make them.
• Repair instructions. The troubleshooting pages explain what a symptom means and when to stop using a circuit. They do not tell you how to work on one, and they carry no step-by-step markup, because a wrong step here injures somebody.

The gap we cannot close

Worth being straight about. The best permit content in this market is written by a working Austin electrician and published under his name and his licence number. We can never do that — carrying a licence number would be the exact claim described above.

What it can do instead is show its sources and its dates. The city's electrical code edition changes on 1 September 2026; almost every page written about permits in this metro carries no date at all, which means there is no way to tell which set of rules it was describing. Every guide here is dated and lists what it was built from, so you can check it against the authority rather than against us.

How to check anything here

Follow the source links at the bottom of any guide. They go to the state, the city, the utility and the federal regulator — not to other articles. If something we have published disagrees with one of them, the authority is right and we are out of date; the contact page is the fastest way to tell us.