Electrical repair
A repair diagnosed first, then made.
Cobb Electric fixes electrical problems in homes, businesses and industrial buildings across East Texas, and finds out what's actually wrong before anyone touches a breaker or a wire.
We find the fault. Then we fix the fault.
Cobb Electric's crew has more than 150 years of combined experience between them, and most of that time has gone into learning the difference between what looks like the problem and what actually is the problem. A breaker that won't reset, an outlet that's gone dead, a light that flickers when the AC kicks on. All of it has a real cause, and guessing at parts wastes your money without fixing anything. We walk the circuit, check the load, and tell you what's actually wrong before anything gets replaced, whether it's a light fixture in a hallway or a repair on an industrial panel. Estimates are free, so you know what the job costs before you decide whether to do it.
What to have ready when you call
It helps to know what stopped working and when, whether anything changed right before it happened (a storm, new equipment plugged in, work done by someone else), and whether the problem is on one circuit or spread across several. You don't need to diagnose it yourself. Just tell us what you've noticed.
Cobb Electric — State-licensed electricians only, covered by general liability and worker's compensation. Call 903-757-4953.
A breaker that trips once is telling you something different than one that trips every day.
A breaker that trips once, on a hot afternoon with every window unit running at the same time, is usually just doing its job. The circuit was asked to carry more than it's rated for, and it did the safe thing. A breaker that trips two or three times a week, with nothing unusual plugged in, is not a load problem. That's a breaker wearing out, a short developing somewhere in the run, or a connection that's loosened enough to arc under load.
Resetting it and hoping isn't a fix, it's a delay, and a delay on a breaker that's actually failing is how a nuisance trip turns into a scorched panel. We open it up, check the connections at the lugs, and test the breaker itself against the wire it's protecting before deciding which one gets replaced.
Flickering isn't always the light.
A light that flickers can be the bulb, the fixture, or the wiring that feeds it, and they don't trace out the same way. A single fixture that flickers on its own is usually the fixture or the lamp. Several lights across a room, or a room and the one next to it, dimming together when something else turns on, points somewhere else, usually a loose neutral connection back at the panel or at a splice along the way.
A loose neutral is a strange fault because it doesn't announce itself as one problem. It shows up as flickering in one room, a light that's too bright in another, and an appliance that runs hot, all at once, and none of it looks related until somebody traces it back to the same connection. Paul Matlock has run the technicians at Cobb Electric since 2005, and tracing a scattered set of symptoms back to one loose connection is exactly the kind of job that experience is for.
This is scheduled work, Monday through Friday.
Cobb Electric works 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday. This isn't an after-hours or emergency callout service, and we'd rather tell you that up front than have you find out at ten o'clock on a Saturday night. If something has stopped working, call during business hours and we'll get it on the schedule. Most repair calls don't need to happen at 2 AM anyway. What they need is someone who shows up, finds the actual fault, and fixes that instead of the nearest guess.