About Water Mill Electric Co.
Water Mill Electric Co. is an electrical referral service for the 9 South Fork towns of the Hamptons, NY, launched in 2026. It is not an electrical contractor and is not connected to any electrician or contractor of a similar name: it finds a homeowner the right licensed, insured local electrician for the job and puts the two in touch, free for the homeowner, with the electrician calling back, typically the same day for a real emergency.
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Water Mill Electric Co. covers nine South Fork towns — East Hampton, Southampton, Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton, Montauk, Amagansett, Wainscott, Water Mill and Sagaponack — and does exactly one thing in them: when a homeowner needs an electrician, we find the one who is actually right for the job and get out of the way. No inventory, no crew, no truck. Just the introduction.
The problem with "I have a guy"
Most Hamptons homeowners already have someone for electrical work: a name a house manager gave them, or whoever wired the last renovation. That holds up fine until the job changes. The person who is excellent at running new circuits for a kitchen remodel is not necessarily who you want sizing a 22-kilowatt standby generator, and the electrician who wired a house in 2019 may not touch panel upgrades or EV chargers at all today. Two real East End companies already sell exactly that generator-EV-lighting bundle, which is genuinely what most second-home calls out here are about, and neither publishes a price for it online — you find out what fits your house by calling and describing it. We ask which kind of job it actually is before we tell you who to call.
How fast you hear back depends on the job
A no-power or sparking report goes out the same day, full stop. A generator, a rewire or an EV charger runs on a slower clock on purpose: sizing a 22-kilowatt unit or a panel upgrade badly is an expensive mistake, so we would rather take an extra minute on the intake form — square footage, what is already on the panel, when you actually need it done — than rush you to whoever is free first. Either way, exactly one electrician calls. Not three competing bids in your inbox.
What "vetted" means here
"Licensed" carries a lot of weight in this trade, so we are specific about what it means: a current Suffolk County electrical license, checked against what the towns themselves ask for on a permit application, since New York has no statewide electrician license at all — county and municipal paperwork is the only credential that actually exists. Past that, we look for liability and workers' comp coverage that is genuinely in force, references from recent jobs in the towns we cover, and, because this work varies more than people expect, some history with the specific thing you need rather than electrical work in general.
We don't sell the equipment
No generator, panel or solar brand pays to be recommended here, and we don't stock or install anything ourselves — which matters more in this trade than most, since a standby generator is a four-figure decision that is easy to oversize. Generac's own published guidance makes the point better than we could: sizing follows the house's actual electrical load, not the square footage on a listing, and "bigger is not always better" is the manufacturer's own phrase, not ours. An electrician with a unit to move off the lot has a reason to recommend the biggest one on it; we have no lot, so the recommendation stays about your house. Solar and utility-side work — anything on PSEG's side of the meter — are not things we route either. Different trade, different license.
What it costs
Nothing, for homeowners. Participating electricians pay us a referral fee for the introduction. You pay the electrician for the work, on their quote, and we don't sell your details to anyone.
About the numbers
Electrical pricing nationally is a genuinely messy picture: the same cost guide sometimes prices the same job two different ways on two different pages, and competing guides can disagree by 2x or more for a whole-house rewire. We publish 2026 cost ranges for the jobs people actually call about — repairs, panels, generators, EV chargers, lighting, rewiring — and say where each number comes from, whether it's national or a real local permit fee, and when sources disagree instead of picking one to sound authoritative. The Town of Southampton's own fee schedule turned out to be the single best primary source we found anywhere on this coast; where a town publishes nothing, we say that instead of guessing.
Small on purpose
Water Mill Electric Co. started in 2026 with no warehouse, no fleet and no equipment to move — the same reason we don't push a generator brand: less overhead means less pressure to talk a homeowner into a bigger job than the house needs. We are small enough that a wrong fact or a stale price on this site gets fixed by one email, not a ticket queue.
Water Mill Electric Co. is a Hamptons electrical referral service, not an electrical contractor. We put homeowners in touch with independent, licensed and insured electricians; the electrician you hire performs the work, provides the quote and carries the warranty. Our service is free for homeowners; participating electricians pay us a referral fee. Published cost figures are 2026 national ranges or, where named, current local permit fees, with sources listed in our guides, not quotes.
Have an electrical job in the Hamptons?
Sixty seconds. One licensed, insured electrician who works your town calls you back — typically the same day for a real emergency, within one business day otherwise. Free for homeowners; nobody else gets your number.