Before a Forge Electric appointment, the customer gets two texts. One goes out the day before. The other arrives a couple of hours ahead of the visit.
“We text the day prior, and a couple hours before the appointment to confirm everything, and to make sure everything is ready to go,” says owner Eduardo Lopez.
It is a small routine from a small company. Lopez opened Forge Electric Co. LLC in 2026, and the business is based in Lilburn, Georgia. He is the sole owner. He says he was 18 when he started it.
What makes the shop worth a look is how it came together. Lopez learned the trade working under another company. Then he built his own, with help from a father who has spent more than 25 years in the trades.
“It started off as more of a vision,” Lopez says, “and the person that actually helped me get this vision into actual paper and get it out there was my dad.” His father still backs the business. “He’s the one that’s mostly helping me out with the bigger jobs,” Lopez says.
Forge takes commercial, residential and industrial work, Lopez says. If he could pick what the company is known for, it would be residential. According to the company’s website, the work runs from panel and service upgrades, EV charger circuits and ceiling fans to troubleshooting and commercial tenant build-outs. The company serves customers in English and Spanish.
Two projects the company describes show the range. In one, a commercial customer had heating panels that needed high-temperature wiring repairs; Forge restored the panels and corrected circuits at the front desk. The other is at a 226-unit HOA community, where the work involves coordinating air-conditioner disconnects and protecting wiring with liquid-tight conduit.
Lopez says the difference he tries to make is in the conversation. “We actually listen to what the customer has to say, and try to explain everything to the customer in a way that they understand what’s going to be done in their home or business,” he says. The aim, as he describes it, is for customers to understand the work and feel comfortable trusting the person doing it. Changes to the scope are discussed before any additional work goes ahead, according to the company’s website.
One customer wrote in a Google review that Lopez explained everything clearly and showed up on time. Another described the crew as quick, friendly and easy to deal with.
The warranty runs longer than many. “Instead of giving a one-year warranty, we give them two years of warranty when it comes down to workmanship,” Lopez says. The company’s website says the two years apply to every job, whatever its size.
He keeps his own eyes on the work. “I make sure I’m personally at every job site,” he says. He is there when a job starts and again as it wraps up, when he goes through his employees’ work “to make sure they did the job properly, and the customer’s going to be happy with the work.”
Forge works across Gwinnett County and the greater Atlanta metro area, 30 miles or more from its base, Lopez says. Communities on its list include Lilburn, Norcross, Peachtree Corners, Buford, Alpharetta and Marietta.
Lopez wants the company to get bigger. “I’m trying to grow this company,” he says, “but I’m not planning on selling it.” What he wants to build instead is a name in the community, so that people have an electrical contractor who isn’t pushing work they don’t need: in his words, “somebody that they can trust.”