E321: Family, Faith, and Electrical Expertise Keep the Lights On

What started as a pandemic pivot has transformed into one of the Treasure Coast's most trusted electrical service providers. Tim and Maria, the husband-and-wife team behind Ehman Electrical Contractor, share their remarkable journey from makeshift solution to thriving enterprise with 28 employees across Florida's eastern coast.

Tim brings over three decades of electrical expertise, having worked on impressive projects from high-rise buildings and stadiums to military facilities and the iconic Hard Rock Guitar hotel. When paired with Maria's administrative and legal background, they created the perfect formula for business success. Now covering from Palm Beach County to Indian River County, they deliver comprehensive electrical services for residential, commercial, industrial, generator, and solar needs.

Beyond their technical capabilities, what truly distinguishes Ehman Electrical is their passionate commitment to safety and education. They dispel dangerous DIY electrical myths and emphasize the critical importance of proper permitting – not just for legal compliance, but for home safety and potential property value increases. This focus on customer education paired with their family-oriented approach to business has earned them a perfect five-star Google rating with nearly 300 glowing reviews.

Perhaps most telling about their character is how they've created a company culture that genuinely values their team members. They sponsor eight employees to obtain their electrical licenses, covering educational expenses and nurturing career advancement. Through all the challenges of running a business while raising seven children between them, Tim and Maria credit their strong Christian faith and communication skills for keeping both their marriage and company thriving. Experience the difference yourself by reaching out through their website, social media, or simply giving them a call directly.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Benjamin John.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome back to the Good Neighbor Podcast once again
.
Are you in need of a reliableand professional electrical
company?
Well, there might be somebodycloser than you think, and I
want to go ahead and introduceyou guys to Tim and Maria, with
Eamon Electrical Contractor.
How are you guys doing?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Good how are you doing Doing well, thank you.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Good, yeah, I'm doing good too, thank you, yeah, so
I'm excited to learn a littlebit more about the company and
kind of have you guys share alittle bit more with the
community here about what youguys do and what you guys
specialize in.
So let's just start with thatquestion right there.
Can you tell us a little bitmore about the company?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, absolutely so.
We're a company we started backin 2020.
We've been around five yearsnow, obviously, and booming here
in the Treasure Coast.
We cover areas from Palm BeachCounty all the way up to Indian
River, and expanding as we speak.
We base our work on absolutelyeverything.
We're electricians, so there'snothing we don't do from

(01:14):
residential, commercial service,industrial generators, solar,
you name it we do it.
We have a service team thataccommodates just about anything
and everything out there, sothat covers pretty much the gist
of it.
We have a service team thataccommodates just about anything
and everything out there, sothat covers pretty much the gist
of it.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
All right, very nice.
Yeah, quite a wide spectrumthere, I noticed.
And how did you guys either oneof you can answer this, or both
of you how'd you guys get intothis business?

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Well, actually Tim here has been in the electrical
industry for about 30 years,since he was out of high school,
and always worked for a bunchof, you know, larger firms and
smaller firms.
He traveled all around thecountry doing electrical work,
doing some projects like highrise buildings, stadiums.
I think he's done some barracksand some military things as

(02:06):
well.
And then the hard rock guitarhe worked on that as well.
And then I come from abackground of legal and
administrative and during COVIDwe found ourselves in
predicaments with the jobsituation and so he decided we
decided to just start EamonElectric as a way for him to

(02:26):
pass the time until everythingreopened and he could go back to
work.
But it turned into somethingmuch bigger than that.
And here we are.
We both quit our other jobs andthis is our full-time job now
and we have 28 employees underus at the moment.
So we've expanded quite a bitin five years due to loyal

(02:47):
customers out there in theTreasure Coast and beyond.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
That's pretty cool.
I like that story and I'mreally happy to hear that not
only were you guys one of thecompanies that made it through
the pandemic, but you guysthrived and grew and scaled, so
congratulations.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
We really did Between his expertise in the electrical
field and my expertise in theoffice and just our both of our
personalities and the way thatwe value customer service, I
think is what's contributed toour growth here.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I would say that's definitely key.
Customer service, All right.
Well, what are some myths ormisconceptions that you
typically see in your industry?

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Myths or misconceptions that your average
Joe can do electric work.
Don't do it.
You should call a professional.
That's definitely something youshould do.
There's a lot more to it thanjust a screw and a plate.
You know we have systems outthere, so it's best that the

(03:52):
professionals look at it.
That's why we go to school,that's why we get licenses and
that's why it takes so long todo that.
There's a reason, I think.
Another thing that I see alongthe line all the time is um, you
don't need permits and youdon't need this and you should
absolutely do the permittingside of any electrical work you

(04:12):
do, because for one it's goingto cover your home, for your
home insurance god forbidanything happens and it's a
documented thing.
So a lot of times when youalter something in your house
and you add it and it'spermitted, it could increase the
value of your home.
So you get two positive thingsout of that.
I hear that a lot out there inthe industry and you know I
really strive that homeownersand business owners get the

(04:35):
permits.
Don't avoid the permits.
It really is for yourprotection.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, I agree.
I think that's valuableinformation for people who you
know take that something soseriously and something so you
know it's.
If it's not done right, itcould threaten your life, and so
I'll make sure professionalstake care of that.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah electricity can cause some serious damage, so
it's nothing to play with.
Spend the extra 100 bucks.
It's okay damage, so it'snothing to play with.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Spend the extra a hundred bucks.
It's okay, it's a good way toput it.
So who are your?

Speaker 3 (05:13):
target customers right now and how do you attract
them?
Target customers is everybody,you know.
Electricity runs the world,everybody needs it.
It's in your cars, it's in yourboats, your planes, it doesn't
matter.
So you know we, every personout there, is our customer.
That's what we strive upon, andeverybody that calls this
company, when we answer thephone, you're like family at

(05:33):
that moment.
So we try to make you happy, ofcourse, and we try to strive to
bring you quality service and aproduct that you paid for.
We also try to educate ourcustomers on the process and the
electrical installation andwork A lot of people don't know.
They just don't know.
And once they do find out youknow it's usually at that point
that it's the awe moment, likeokay, I should have done this

(05:55):
years ago.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
So Now, as far as attracting the customers, so far
we've built our company on alot of word of mouth and we
actually just rebranded and werefreshed our brand.
So we've got some.
We rewrapped our vehicles,we've got some you know,
facebook ads going and thingslike that, and we're working on

(06:16):
more things on the advertisingside.
We do a lot of things out inthe community.
We support a lot of variouscharities and we set up a lot of
booths at various events andthings like that.
So that's how we kind of getout there.
But word of mouth is one of ourbiggest contributing factors to
attaining customers.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Okay, absolutely Very nice Outside of work.
What do you guys do for fun,sleep.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
We have a lot of kids , kids.
So we have seven kids betweenus.
Thankfully, most of them areout of the house, um, but we
camp, we fish, hang out yeah,right side by side work.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
I mean, we're average people.
We try to do what we can.
You know, running a business isit's tough when you do that
with a family, you know.
But you make the time.
You have to make the time andwe do.
I play golf too and playsoftball, so we do a bunch of
extracurricular stuff as we cansprinkle it into our lives.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
All right.
Well, there you go.
I like that.
That stuff's important, I thinktoo.
So I'm going to switch gears onyou guys a little bit here too.
So I'm going to switch gears onyou guys a little bit here.
Can you describe a hardship,either maybe one that you guys
have both done together orindividually, it's up to you
guys.
Can you describe a hardship ora life challenge that either of

(07:39):
you have been through and itmade you stronger?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, life, a whole lot of life, is period.
Um, yeah, there's a ton ofthings.
I mean, life on its terms istough, you know, um, but I think
one of the hardest things we'vedone is obviously being married
, raising a family and workingtogether is is not exactly a
walk in the park, you know it's.

(08:01):
It's a, it's a.
It's a tough task to handle.
It's got its ups and it's gotits downs and, um, you know, the
good thing is is we're, we'restrong Christians, and the Lord
Jesus Christ has brought usthrough a lot of trials and
tribulations and we keep ourfaith strong and, um, that's
where we are today with that,and you know we're both

(08:22):
remarried with children fromother marriages, so that in and
of itself is a challenge and,like he mentioned, having to do
all that and grow a businesstogether and work together and
live together is verychallenging.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
But we do it every single day and we grow and learn
every single day from theexperience and we help mentor
other people too that might havequestions for us about how do
we do it, what do we do it, whatdo we do?
And it's just keeping our faithand staying together and making
sure that we're communicating.
Uh, through it all she hasn't.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
She hasn't killed me yet, so I'm stupid why happy
life?

Speaker 2 (09:00):
you're doing something right.
Yeah, yeah, something yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Something's good, something's good still.
So we're good.
That's funny so yeah, eitherTim or Maria.
Can you guys tell our listenersone thing they should remember
about even electrical contractor?
We're number one there's handsdown.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
I think it's that we really.
We really want people to knowthat we treat our employees with
respect and we treat them andvalue them as a family, and we
do a lot of things for ouremployees, including paying for
their schooling if they want tobecome apprentices.
We actually sponsor eightelectricians right now, eight
people that work for our companywe sponsor to get their

(09:44):
licenses.
So we value education, we, wevalue our employees and that's
how we're able to do what we do,um, and we wouldn't be here
without them.
So we really want the communityto know how much we value our
employees and our customers too.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
But yeah, yeah.
Well, that's really cool.
I like that you went thatdirection with that.
I think that's huge for thecommunity to see how you guys
conduct yourself and how youguys view your team.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yes, it's a culture.
We're building our own culture.
It's extension of who we are.
So we're not quite corporatebut we're not quite mom and pop.
We're a little bit of a blend.
We're kind of making our ownpath here.
See where it takes us.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah, all right.
Well, how can the communitylearn more about the company?

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Several ways.
One look us up on Google.
We're all over Google.
We have Instagram.
We have Facebook.
A lot of our jobs are postedout there.
I'm pretty sure, at this rate,if you live in the treasure
coast and you ask around,somebody knows about even
electric or that e we have a lotof followers and we do have a
lot of likes.
Um, we are a five-star business.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Um, I think we're pushing 300 now we have almost
300 reviews and we're at afive-star ranking on google, so
that's awesome um and ourwebsite too, even electriccom.
Um, you can always go there tooto find out more information on
where we're at and things likethat.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yep, so that's really you know.
That's how you're gonna learnabout us, or, if you want, call
the number pick up the phone,give us a call, leave it or not?
Leave a message for me, I'llcall you back and we can talk
the best way.
Right, that's the best way.
Come right to the horse's mouth.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well, Tim and Maria, it's been really good chatting
with you guys.
Thanks for letting us know alittle bit more about the
company and you guys and howpeople can get ahold of you if
they want to utilize yourservices.
And yeah, we wish you guys andthe company the best moving
forward.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Thank you so much, guys.

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