Electrical Services in Broken Arrow, OK

Electrical services in Broken Arrow since 1995

Hot Shot Electric Service Co. has been an electrician in Broken Arrow since August 1, 1995. It is a family-owned company, and the owner/service manager holds the Oklahoma electrical contractor license the company works under: license #26574, issued through the Construction Industries Board. When you call (918) 261-8024, we ask what is happening, walk you through a few quick checks, and if the problem is real, we send a licensed journeyman to your house.

That last part matters more than most people realize. Our crew are licensed journeymen and licensed apprentices. A journeyman runs every job. We do not send an apprentice out alone, ever, even though plenty of companies do once an apprentice gets close to testing. The journeyman on your job carries his license, and he will show it to you if you ask.

Electrical services Broken Arrow homeowners call us for

Because we are based here, Broken Arrow is where we do the widest range of work. The calls we get most often fall into a few groups:

• Something stopped working. Dead outlets, a room with no power, lights that flicker, a breaker that will not stay on. That is electrical troubleshooting and repair.
• Breakers and panels. A breaker that keeps tripping, a panel that is full, warm, buzzing or one of the brands home inspectors flag. See circuit breaker repair and panel upgrades.
• Adding something new. A Level 2 charger for an electric car, a ceiling fan where there was only a light, more outlets in the garage, under-cabinet lighting in a remodeled kitchen.
• The backyard. Circuits, GFCI outlets, lighting, fans and heaters for covered patios and outdoor kitchens, plus pool pump and hot tub wiring.

If what you need is not on that list, call and ask. If it is something we do not do, such as wiring a brand new house from the slab up, we will tell you so on the phone rather than waste your morning.

A city that grew fast, and wiring from every decade

Broken Arrow started as a railroad town in 1902, when the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad laid out lots along its new line. It stayed small until the Broken Arrow Expressway (State Highway 51) opened in the 1960s and tied it to downtown Tulsa. Growth has not really stopped since. At the 2020 census Broken Arrow had 113,540 residents, making it the fourth largest city in Oklahoma and the largest suburb of Tulsa.

For an electrician, that history shows up inside the walls. Older homes near downtown and the Rose District can have panels and wiring that were never meant for today's loads. Homes from the 1960s and 1970s are the ones most likely to have aluminum branch wiring, which is safe only when its connections are made correctly. Newer subdivisions have their own issues: builder-grade connections that loosen, nuisance tripping on AFCI and GFCI breakers, and garages with one circuit trying to run a freezer, a shop and a car charger. We see all of it, sometimes on the same street.

Two counties, one city: permits and PSO

Broken Arrow is split between Tulsa County to the west and Wagoner County to the east, and people sometimes ask whether that changes anything. For electrical work inside city limits, it does not: the City of Broken Arrow handles the permit and the inspection. When a job needs a permit, such as a panel replacement, a service upgrade or new circuits for a remodel, we pull it and schedule the inspection, and the work is not finished until it passes.

Most Broken Arrow homes get their power from PSO, Public Service Company of Oklahoma. PSO owns the lines, the service drop to your house and the meter. You own the weatherhead, the mast, the meter base and everything inside. That line matters after a storm. If a limb tore the service off the house, PSO usually needs a licensed electrician to repair your side before they reconnect, and we coordinate that with them. If half your house went dark after an outage, we will often ask whether your 240-volt appliances still run before we send anyone, because one lost leg of power can be a PSO repair rather than a wiring job.

Residential electrician in Broken Arrow: how a call works

1. You call (918) 261-8024 or send the request form with your service and your part of town.
2. We ask what is going on and walk you through the simple checks first: the wall switch, the breaker, any GFCI reset buttons, and PSO's outage map. If one of those fixes it, you have saved yourself a service call.
3. If it needs a visit, a licensed journeyman arrives in the window you were given. Urgent problems are worked the same day during business hours.
4. He finds the cause and explains it in plain English. You get the price before any work starts, and you can approve it, ask questions or take time to think.
5. The work is done, tested and cleaned up, and he walks you through what changed before he leaves.

Our hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. Calls outside those hours go to voicemail and are returned first thing the next business morning. We do not pretend to be a round-the-clock company, and we would rather tell you that up front than have you wait on a promise.

Emergency electrical repair in Broken Arrow

A scorched outlet, a hot or buzzing panel, a breaker that will not reset or half the house dark after a storm: call (918) 261-8024. Urgent problems in Broken Arrow are worked the same day during business hours, Monday to Friday 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. Calls after hours go to voicemail and are returned first thing the next business morning. If you see smoke or flames, get everyone out and call 911; if a line is down, stay clear and call PSO. More on what to do is on our emergency electrician page.

What it costs

Planned work gets a free estimate: a panel upgrade, an EV charger circuit, new lighting, a ceiling fan, patio heaters. Troubleshooting is different, because finding the cause is the skilled part of the job. That visit carries a diagnostic fee, and it includes a roughly 20-point safety inspection of the home, so you leave knowing more than just what broke. Either way, you see the price before the work starts. Manufactured items we install carry a one-year warranty. We take cash, check, debit, all major cards, CashApp, and offer financing on larger jobs. The full breakdown is on our pricing page.

Why Broken Arrow keeps calling a local crew

A local electrician is only worth it if the local part means something. For us it means the same few people answer your calls year after year, the person pricing your job is the person who holds the license, and the crew has to see you at the grocery store afterward. It also shows in our reviews: 4.9 stars across 247 Google reviews, a BBB A+ rating, membership in the Home Builders Association of Greater Tulsa, and a lot of customers who say they have used us for many years.

Prompt, polite and professional is painted on the side of every Hot Shot Electric Service Co. vehicle. If you need an electrician in Broken Arrow, call (918) 261-8024 and tell us what is going on.