Barrus Solar

We hired Homestar Builders to do a 6.5KW solar installation. Initially I thought Brad was an employee of theirs. Wrong, he's a subcontractor. Issues started first day--he borrowed several hand tools of mine without permission. We discussed how conduit was to be run, and that plastic conduit was underground and ALL conduit above ground was to be metal. He installed plastic conduit on two long horizontal runs along my block wall and my home contrary to our agreement. I had him remove it. We decided on bury conduit on the side of my home. I warned him of a gas line for the pool equipment and asked him to dig to avoid it. It rented a trenching machine and ran into the gas line. He failed the trench depth of 18 inches--required by code--TWICE, only passing on the 3rd attempt. Poor workmanship, that had to be replaced before it looked professional. On final inspection day, I spoke to a regular electrician of Homestar to get questions answered, and got clear answers to my questions. If Brad can't read a tape measure to pass inspection depth, doesn't have enough simple tools to do cleanup, etc.--he would not be my first choice to do another solar install

We had another company install solar on our home. The system didn't work. We found out the work was not permitted. These guys basically didn't know what they were doing, took our money and vanished. We were disappointed, angry and out lots of money! BARRUS SOLAR SAVED THE DAY! Brad Barrus and Barrus Solar inspected our system, figured out what was wrong, handled the local permits, fixed all of the installation problems and got us up and running in record time at a very reasonable price! Many thanks to Brad Barrus and Barrus Solar for helping us out of a desperate situation!! Brad is a great guy who definitely knows solar. We highly recommend him.

Our home is a hillside residential in SCE territory, (which means we lose power often and are subject to horrible customer service), thus, we wanted a grid-connected installation with a battery back-up so we will have reliable and affordable electrical power. Our array is 300+ feet away from our house, up a twisty dirt trail with 100 feet of elevation gain – not a fun hike when you have to carry 300 lb steel posts and 3000lbs of concrete for a pole mounted array footing. Barrus Solar came in well under (20% less) every other bid; work was performed on-time and passed inspection without fault, plus, Brad is simply a nice guy and pleasant to work with.

When our Home Depot-provided BP panels failed on us, I somehow found Barrus Solar. They contacted BP, who eventually settled with us. Being a due diligence type, I sought other quotes, other vendors (including BP's --- but NOT Home Depot's) and ended up choosing Barrus Solar, because I had a good feeling about them. From day one, they were knowledgeable. Although the owner is young, his breadth of knowledge and experience is extraordinary (and again, I shopped this quite a bit). Well now the project is finished. I have such a great system. My boyfriend loves that he can monitor the panels from his cell phone (go figure). I'm just thrilled with the technology and our electric car now has 220 to boot. BRAVO to Barrus Solar and to Brad for helping us every step of the way ---- even BEFORE he knew he was ultimately going to be selected as the vendor of choice. I wholeheartedly can recommend them to you.