Seven Hills Electric.

Overview

The white van says it plainly on the side: Seven Hills Electric LLC. It works out of Greenwood, the quiet western edge of Crozet where the rail line and Route 250 thread toward Afton Mountain, and it answers to a slogan that tells you exactly what kind of shop this is — "If It's Got A Wire, We're For Hire." That is the whole philosophy in six words. Whether the wire runs to a hundred-year-old farmhouse panel, a restaurant's kitchen, or a charger for the car in the driveway, this is the crew that shows up to sort it out.

Seven Hills has been doing residential and commercial electrical work in the Charlottesville and Richmond areas since 1984, which by the arithmetic makes it one of the older continuously running trades in the region. It carries Virginia license #46-2673940, a detail the company puts front and center rather than burying in the fine print — a small tell that the licensing and the code-compliance are the point, not an afterthought.

What they do

The list is long and specific, which is what you want from an electrician. On the residential side: service and panel upgrades, replacing tired circuit breakers, swapping out old wiring, installing new outlets and dedicated circuits, and running the heavier 220- and 480-volt lines that hot tubs, workshops, and big appliances demand. There is a whole lighting practice inside the practice — landscape lighting to make a yard glow after dark, security lighting, track and accent lighting, LED retrofits that trade an old fixture's power bill for a smaller one, plus ceiling and exhaust fans.

Then there's the modern stuff, the work that barely existed when the company started. Seven Hills installs EV charging stations for the growing number of electric cars in Crozet driveways, sets up standby generators and transfer switches so a house keeps its lights through an outage, and adds whole-home surge protection and shock-prevention devices to guard the wiring already in the walls. Code corrections are their own line item — the unglamorous but essential job of bringing an older building up to what the inspector, and safety, require.

Commercial clients get the same range with a business's constraints in mind. One reviewer who runs a restaurant noted they work around a "crazy operating schedule," coming in before service or staying after close, and keep her current on code so she never gets caught out. That flexibility — early mornings, late nights, whatever the room needs — is a recurring note.

Hours and how to reach them

This is where the "24 hours" label needs a little translation. The office keeps ordinary business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, and is closed weekends for scheduled work. But electrical trouble does not keep a calendar, so Seven Hills runs 24-hour emergency service every day of the week for the genuine emergencies — the dead panel, the burning smell, the outage that can't wait until Monday. Non-urgent jobs get a scheduled appointment window; urgent ones get a callback at whatever hour they happen.

The Crozet-area line is (434) 285-2000. The shop sits at 1043 Greenwood Rd, Crozet, VA 22932, and the same company answers a second number for its Richmond territory. Estimates are free, and you can request one through the Seven Hills Electric website or by phone.

Who they cover

For a Crozet homeowner, the useful part is the map. Seven Hills works Charlottesville and the surrounding counties — Albemarle, Greene, Nelson, Fluvanna, and Buckingham — which puts Crozet, Greenwood, Afton, and the rest of western Albemarle squarely inside the regular service area, not out on some inconvenient fringe. The company also covers the greater Richmond metro from its eastern office, but from Greenwood the whole Rockfish Gap side of the county is home turf.

The reviews left on the company's own page are worth reading for the texture more than the star count. A customer named Brad describes an electrician named James who was "prompt, knowledgeable, patient" and explained the problem in plain English. Another, Donna, tells the small-town story of calling for her mother and having a technician named Trey — already nearby — come straight over, find the fault, and fix it. Shaya says James has been her electrician for five years running. Those are the notes of a shop that trades on being reachable, tidy, and the same set of faces year after year — the kind of thing that matters when you're handing someone the keys and the breaker box.

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