Penn Valley · Nevada County, CA
Jeff McEvoy has been the electrician Nevada County calls when the work is hard, weird, or behind a wall someone else gave up on.
Services
No job is beneath Jeff's attention. No problem is past his ability to solve. If you've been told it can't be done, call him first.
Old panels run hot, trip constantly, or quietly fail inspection when you go to sell. Jeff replaces them clean — coordinated with PG&E, permitted, sized for what your house actually pulls now.
Knob-and-tube, aluminum, mystery splices in the attic from 1978. Full or partial rewires done without tearing the house apart more than necessary.
The DC and AC side of solar — inverters, disconnects, interconnection, battery backup. Most general electricians refer this work out. Jeff doesn't.
GFCI-protected 240V circuits, bonding done right, panel capacity verified before the tub shows up. The kind of job where shortcuts kill people.
Pump controls, pressure switches, and the long buried runs out to the wellhead. Standard on rural Nevada County parcels and routinely declined by shop electricians who don't want to leave town.
A breaker that keeps tripping is telling you something. Jeff finds the actual fault, not the symptom, and fixes it.
Dead outlets, scorched receptacles, three-way switches that have never worked since the remodel. Same-day when scheduling allows. No job too small.
Lighting retrofits, tenant improvements, parking lot circuits. Includes the full LED conversion completed for Sierra Business Council under their rebate program — interior and exterior, building and lot.
Nevada County · Penn Valley · Licensed since 2003
"Most electricians stop where it gets complicated.
That's where I get interested."
Jeff McEvoy — McEvoy Electric — Nevada County, CA — Est. 2003
Jeff McEvoy
Penn Valley, CA
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He came back from the Bay Area with a license, an apprenticeship, and the habit of doing it right the first time.
About
Jeff McEvoy trained in San Francisco and Marin County, where electrical inspectors are some of the toughest in California. The standard there isn't "it works." The standard is that it passes the second time someone looks at it, ten years later.
He apprenticed for two years with Artistic Lighting and Electrical. His first major job out of that apprenticeship was a 50,000 square foot rammed-earth residence — at the time, the second largest private home under construction in America. Hundreds of miles of wire. Every wiring method and control system the code allowed. The project took years.
He brought that training back to Nevada County in 2003 and opened McEvoy Electric in Penn Valley.
Since then he's built the kind of reputation a small county pays attention to. Solar systems. Well pumps. Hot tubs. Old farmhouses with four generations of wiring stacked on top of each other. The jobs other electricians look at, quote high, and hope you go away.
Jeff doesn't quote high to make you go away.
Reviews
"Three electricians told us the well pump situation was somebody else's problem. Jeff pulled up, looked at it, and had us running by the end of the next day. He's the only one I call now."
— Karen, Rough & Ready
"We bought a 1940s place in Nevada City with knob-and-tube in half the walls and a panel held together with hope. Jeff rewired the whole house in stages so we didn't have to move out. Permits, inspections, all of it clean."
— Mark, Nevada City (full rewire)
"Our hot tub install got declined twice by other electricians because of where the panel was. Jeff figured out a route, pulled the permit, and it passed inspection on the first walk-through."
— Diane, Lake Wildwood
You'll get Jeff or his voicemail — not a dispatch service. He returns calls the same day when he can.
530-432-2525Office: 530-432-2525 · Cell: 530-559-9173
Or write to Jeff
Calls are faster than the form — Jeff usually picks up or returns the message the same day. If you're writing instead, include the property address and a sentence about what's going on.