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Residential electrical work across South County. Panel upgrades, remodels, wiring and lighting, home sale inspections, and the troubleshooting nobody else wants to chase down. You deal with the electrician, not a dispatcher.
Zach BrizioMaster Electrician / OwnerSafe · Code Compliant · Done Right
What I do
The work,
plainly stated
No packages, no tiers, no upsell script. Tell me what is going on and you will get told what it actually takes to fix it, including when the honest answer is that it can wait.
Panel Upgrades & Service Changes
100 amp to 200 amp service changes, panel swaps, and replacement of the failure-prone panels still sitting in a lot of Rhode Island basements.
What's involved 02Home Sale Inspections & Code Corrections
Electrical inspections for a house purchase, and the punch lists that come out of them, cleared before the closing date.
What's involved 03Troubleshooting & Repairs
Dead outlets, breakers that won't stay set, flickering lights, burning smells. Finding the actual cause instead of replacing parts until it stops.
What's involved 04Wiring, Outlets & Lighting
Added circuits, more outlets where you actually need them, recessed lighting, ceiling fans, and exterior lighting.
What's involved 05Remodels & Additions
Rough and finish on additions, kitchens, baths and basements, scheduled to keep the rest of the trades moving.
What's involved 06EV Charger Installation
240 volt home charging installed on a correctly sized circuit, after checking whether your service can actually carry it.
What's involved 07Generators & Backup Power
Automatic standby systems and safe portable hookups, so a nor'easter is an inconvenience instead of a week of spoiled food.
What's involved 08Dedicated Circuits & Equipment
Its own circuit, sized off the nameplate, with the disconnect where the code says it has to be.
What's involved 09Rewiring & Older Homes
Knob and tube, cloth-covered wiring and aluminum branch circuits, addressed in stages or all at once.
What's involvedOne service question left
- Q6 was skipped, but Q8 lists commercial as work you want more of. Residential only, or commercial too? If commercial is real it needs saying out loud on this page and probably its own page, because a property manager searching for a commercial electrician will not find a site that only talks about houses.
- Q14 came back no for new construction, but the flyer advertises it. That service is now titled Remodels & Additions and the new-build language is gone. Worth a look before the next print run.
Most common call
Your panel is
the bottleneck
Adding a heat pump. Finishing the basement. Putting a charger in the garage. Half the time the equipment is not the problem. It is the 100 amp service feeding a house built in 1974 is.
A service change is not a box swap. It is the panel, the meter socket, the service entrance conductors, the mast, and the grounding and bonding, sized off a real load calculation, coordinated with the utility, inspected, and labeled so the next person can read it.
Panels worth replacing on sight
- Federal Pacific Stab-Lok: breakers that fail to trip under load
- Zinsco / Sylvania: bus bar burns behind the breaker
- Challenger: same failure pattern, same recommendation
- Fuse boxes still feeding a modern kitchen
- Any panel with double-taps, rust, or scorch marks on the bus
- 60 amp service on a house with central air
How it goes
No mystery
The part most people actually complain about is not the price. It is not knowing what is happening or when. So here is the whole sequence.
You call or text
Describe what is happening. You get a real answer about whether it is urgent, and what it will take to look at it.
I come look
On a repair, diagnosis happens on the spot. On a bigger job, I take measurements and photos and put a number together.
You get the number
Written, itemized, with what is included and what is not. Permit costs stated separately so nothing is buried.
The work gets done
Scheduled when I say it is scheduled. Cleaned up after. Panel labeled. Inspection handled where one is required.
Contractors & property managers
One number,
every unit
Works with general contractors, builders, property managers, landlords and realtors. One licensed electrician who picks up the phone, holds the schedule, and does not need chasing the week of an inspection.
- Certificate of insurance on file before the first day
- Licensed master electrician pulling the permits
- Invoicing that matches your paperwork, not ours
- Rough and finish scheduled around the other trades
- Turnover and make-ready work between tenants
- Inspection punch lists cleared before a closing date
Veteran owned
Show up when
you said you would
It is a low bar and most of this trade still trips over it. Veteran owned here means the boring things are non-negotiable: on time, phone answered, site left clean, work that passes inspection the first time.
Need answer · Q34: anything specific you want said about the veteran sideWhere I work
South
County
Based in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, working South County. Close enough to most of it that a service call does not turn into a half day of driving, and there is no trip charge anywhere inside it.
- South Kingstown
- Wakefield
- Peace Dale
- Kingston
- West Kingston
- Narragansett
- Matunuck
- Saunderstown
- Charlestown
- Richmond
- Wyoming
- Hope Valley
- Exeter
- North Kingstown
- Wickford
- East Greenwich
- Jamestown
- Westerly
- Hopkinton
- West Greenwich
South County is the patch, and there is no trip charge inside it. Just outside and it is usually still a yes, so ask on the phone rather than guessing. No trip charge and no out-of-area fee anywhere he works.
Southeastern Massachusetts is worth a call rather than an assumption. Zach holds a Massachusetts journeyman electrician licence alongside the Rhode Island contractor licence, and the two do not carry the same authority. Tell him the town and what the job is and you will get a straight answer on whether he can take it.
Still need from Zach
- Which Massachusetts towns do you actually want the calls from? Name them and they get listed properly instead of a general 'over the line' line.
What customers say
Straight answers
Questions
worth asking
The ones that come up on nearly every first phone call.
What towns do you cover?
South County. Based in South Kingstown, and regularly in Wakefield, Peace Dale, Kingston, Narragansett, Charlestown, Richmond, Exeter, North Kingstown, Wickford, East Greenwich, Jamestown, Westerly and the villages in between. No trip charge and no out-of-area fee anywhere in there. Just outside it, ask on the phone; it is usually still a yes.
Do you charge for an estimate?
No. Quotes are free. Call or text with what is going on and you will get told what it takes and what it costs before anybody schedules anything.
Are you actually licensed and insured?
Yes. Licensed master electrician, fully insured, working as Vital Spark Electric LLC under Rhode Island electrical contractor licence AC-005563, plus a Massachusetts journeyman electrician licence, 57416 B. A certificate of insurance comes over before work starts, whether you are a homeowner, a GC or a property manager.
Do you work in Massachusetts?
Zach holds a Massachusetts journeyman electrician licence, 57416 B, alongside the Rhode Island electrical contractor licence AC-005563. Those are different classes and they do not carry the same authority, so Massachusetts work is a conversation rather than an automatic yes. Call with the town and the job and you will get a straight answer instead of a maybe.
Do you handle the permit and the inspection?
Yes. Permits get pulled and inspections get scheduled as part of the job. You do not need to visit a building department or wait around for an inspector on your own time.
Do you take emergency and after-hours calls?
Yes. Burning smell, scorched device, sparking, a panel that got wet, no power at all: call, do not use the form. Kill the breaker first if you can do it safely, and call 911 first if there is smoke or fire. After-hours pricing is a short conversation on the call rather than a number on a web page.
Do you warranty your work?
One year workmanship warranty on everything installed. If something that was worked on is not right, it gets made right.
How long have you been doing this?
Fifteen years in the trade as a licensed electrician. Vital Spark Electric is the shop, incorporated in 2026. The experience is not new; the sign on the truck is.
Am I going to get you, or somebody you sent?
You get Zach. He answers the phone, he quotes the job, and he does or directly supervises the work. There is no dispatcher, no rotating crew and nobody learning on your house.
Do you work with contractors, builders, property managers and realtors?
Yes, and regularly. Certificate of insurance on file before the first day, invoicing that matches your paperwork, and a schedule you can actually build around. If you manage units, one number handles all of them.
I'm buying a house and the inspector flagged the electrical. Can you help?
That is a large part of the work. A home inspector writes "recommend evaluation by a licensed electrician" and a closing gets a hold on it. Vital Spark does that evaluation and, if you want it, the corrections that follow, so it is one call instead of three. Turnarounds respect the closing date.
How do I pay?
Cash, check and credit cards.
How fast can you get out here?
Depends what is on the schedule that week, but you will get a real answer instead of being strung along. Safety issues move to the front, so say so when you call.
My breaker keeps tripping. Can I just put in a bigger one?
No, and this one is worth saying plainly. The breaker is sized to protect the wire behind it. Putting a 20 amp breaker on 14 gauge wire does not fix an overload, it removes the thing that stops the wire from starting a fire. A breaker that keeps tripping is telling you something real. That is a troubleshooting call.
Get it on the schedule
Tell me what
it's doing
Fastest is the phone, and a text works just as well. Quotes are free, there is no trip charge, and everything installed carries a one year workmanship warranty.