A small family electrical company

BRIGHTEN

Your Day Electric

Powering homes. Protecting families.

Scroll 15+ years · Lic. #EC-48217
02 A note from the workbench

A small family electrical company.

We treat every panel, every wire, every fixture as if it lived behind our own walls.

— Ken & the Brighten crew
03 The work

Six things we are very good at.

We do not pretend to do everything. The list below is what we have done a few thousand times, and what we will quote you for tomorrow.

  1. 01

    Panel Upgrades

    Move from 100 to 200 amps without losing a weekend. Code-compliant service entrance, new meter base, modern breakers, clean labeling.

  2. 02

    Whole-Home Rewiring

    Knob-and-tube, aluminum branch, brittle insulation. We pull new copper through old walls with minimal patching and a written warranty.

  3. 03

    Lighting Design

    Layered ambient, task, and accent. Dimming that actually dims. Trim that disappears into the ceiling. Light you feel before you notice.

  4. 04

    EV Charger Installation

    Level 2 chargers wired on a dedicated 240V circuit. Load calculation, permit, install, and a tidy run from panel to garage. One visit.

  5. 05

    Safety Inspections

    Pre-purchase, post-storm, or just curious. We open the panel, walk the runs, test every device, and hand you a one-page report you can read.

  6. 06

    Whole-Home Generators

    Automatic standby units sized to your real load. Quiet, weather-rated, and tested twice a year so it works the one night you need it.

04 Why us

A small crew that answers its own phone.

We grew up in trade school under fathers and uncles who treated a clean wire run as a moral matter. We are still doing it that way.

  • Family run since 2010

    A small crew that answers its own phone. The person who quotes the job is the person who shows up to do it.

  • Licensed, bonded, insured

    Lic. #EC-48217. Workers compensation, general liability, and a written warranty on every install.

  • Cleaner than we found it

    Drop cloths in every room. Wire ends labeled. Old fixtures hauled away. You should not be able to tell we were here, except that everything works.

15+

Years powering Cleveland homes

4.9

Average rating across 300+ reviews

1700+

Panels, fixtures, and chargers installed

05 How we work

Four steps. Nothing weird.

Most jobs we have done a hundred times before. The shape of the work is very simple. Surprises are someone else’s problem.

  1. 01

    Walk the house

    We come out, you show us what is bothering you, we look at the panel, the attic, and the meter. Free, no pressure, takes thirty minutes.

  2. 02

    Write the quote

    Itemized by line. Materials and labor priced separately. No round numbers, no surprise add-ons, no fine print at the bottom.

  3. 03

    Do the work

    A two-person crew for most jobs. Power down only what we need, only when we need to. Permits pulled before we arrive, not after.

  4. 04

    Hand it back clean

    Final walkthrough with you. Every switch, every outlet, every fixture tested. Written warranty in your email by the time we leave the driveway.

06 From the kitchen table

Three of the kindest things anyone has said to us.

  • They found a 1972 splice in our attic that two other electricians had missed. Fixed it the same morning, rewrote the quote on the spot, charged us less than the original number. I do not know how to repay that kind of honesty.

    Karen R. Lakewood, OH
    Whole-home rewire, 1934 colonial
  • Ken installed our generator in October. The first big snow hit two weeks later and the block lost power for sixteen hours. Ours never blinked. My mother-in-law was asleep upstairs on oxygen. Buy the generator.

    Marcus D. Shaker Heights, OH
    22kW standby, automatic transfer
  • I was the annoying client. Three change orders. New pendant after the drywall went back. They never sighed, never raised the price, never made me feel small for changing my mind. They just made it look easy.

    Priya S. Rocky River, OH
    Kitchen lighting design and install
07 Light

A demonstration of light, electrical and otherwise.

08 Get in touch

Say hello.

The phone is the fastest. Ken picks up most days between seven and seven. Emails get answered the same evening.

Greater Cleveland, Ohio Lic. #EC-48217 Bonded & insured