Longview, TX
903-757-4953

Before you call

The things people ask first.

Most first calls to Cobb Electric start with the same handful of questions, so here they are answered up front instead of making you wait on hold to ask. The first group below is about whether you can trust the company: how long it has actually been in Longview, whether it is licensed and insured, what happens if a job is not done right, and whether you can talk to someone who has already used them.

The second group is more practical: what it costs to have someone look at a job, what kind of work Cobb Electric actually takes on, where the working area stops, and when the phone gets answered.

None of it is boilerplate copied from a template. Every answer below is specific to this business, and if a question you have is not covered, the phone number works better than guessing at an answer nobody wrote down.

Read them in order, skip straight to the group that matters to you, or just open the one line you actually need. The accordion below is the same information either way, just arranged so a passing question doesn't take longer to find than the actual call would.

Trust and credentials

Since 1946, when Frank Cobb opened the business as Cobb's Southwest Electric. His son Charles joined in 1967 and later took it over, re-opening it as a non-union shop in 1993. Charles's daughter Beth runs the office today and her husband Paul Matlock has been technician manager since 2005, which makes it a third-generation family company.

Yes. Cobb Electric holds Texas Electrical Contractor licence TECL #17658, the team is made up of state-licensed electricians only, and the company carries both general liability and worker's compensation cover.

There is a one year workmanship guarantee on everything Cobb Electric does. If something was not done properly, it gets fixed at no charge.

Yes. References are available on request, and after eighty years in the same town there are plenty of them.

Scheduling, scope and area

No. Estimates are free. Call 903-757-4953 and describe the job, and someone who has actually done that kind of work will talk it through with you.

All three. Cobb Electric has completed hundreds of projects including sports field lighting and parking lot lighting, and has worked for churches, schools, banks, restaurants, residential construction, commercial retail space, office space and industrial shops.

East Texas, working out of Longview. Tyler and Lindale are both inside the regular working area.

Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Closed Saturday and Sunday.