Commercial and industrial
Churches, schools, banks, restaurants, shops. We've wired most of them.
Cobb Electric handles commercial and industrial electrical work across East Texas, from power to the data and computer lines that go in alongside it.
The building types we've actually worked in
Cobb Electric's own client list, going back decades, reads like a cross-section of Longview: churches, schools, banks, restaurants, residential construction, commercial retail space, office space, and industrial shops. That range matters more than it sounds. A church sanctuary, a bank office and an industrial shop floor don't share a wiring problem, and a contractor who has only ever done houses will learn that the hard way, on your job. Cobb Electric's crew has more than 150 years of combined experience across residential, commercial and industrial work, and every electrician on it holds a state licence. Estimates are free, on a single office fit-out or a full industrial shop.
Insurance a property manager can actually check
Cobb Electric carries general liability insurance, which is what most contractors mean when they say they're insured. It also carries worker's compensation, which is the one that protects you, not just the crew. If general liability is all a contractor carries and one of their people gets hurt on your property, that gap can become your problem. Worker's comp closes it. Ask any commercial contractor to show you both, not just one.
Cobb Electric — State-licensed electricians only, covered by general liability and worker's compensation. Call 903-757-4953.
One name on the door since 1993.
Charles Cobb re-opened the company as a non-union shop in 1993, and it has run under the same family since, now with his daughter Beth managing the office and her husband Paul Matlock leading the technicians. For a facilities manager or a property owner signing a contract, that continuity is worth something concrete. Cobb Electric isn't a subcontractor list that changes every job, or a licence held by someone who no longer works there. It's the same company, licensed as Texas Electrical Contractor TECL #17658, that was here for the last building in this town that needed rewiring, and will be here for the next one. References are available on request, and after this long in Longview there are plenty to check.
Data and power, installed by the same crew.
Computer line installation is on Cobb Electric's own published service list, and it usually comes up on the same job as the power does. When an office or a retail space is being fitted out, running the data cabling separately from a different contractor means two schedules, two site visits, and two people to blame if a jack ends up dead behind drywall that's already closed up. One contractor handling the electrical circuits and the computer lines on the same visit removes that coordination problem entirely, and means whoever pulls the cable already knows where the panel is, what's on which breaker, and where the conduit runs.
Permits and inspections, handled instead of hoped around.
Commercial and industrial electrical work often involves a permit and an inspection, and exactly what's required changes by jurisdiction and by the scope of the job. Cobb Electric works through that process as a normal part of the job rather than something to route around, because a property owner is the one who ends up holding the risk on electrical work that was never signed off. If a job needs a permit, we handle getting it. If an inspector wants to walk it, we're there for that too.