About Rieger Electric
Family owned, licensed, and working out of Hallsville — covering everywhere within 48 miles of Longview. Here's who we are and where we work.
A family business in Hallsville
Rieger Electric is a family-owned electrical contractor based in Hallsville, Texas. We're not a franchise and we're not a call center with a truck fleet somewhere else. When you call, you're talking to the people who will be doing the work.
That shapes how we run the job. We answer the phone. We tell you what something costs before we start. If we open a wall and find a problem nobody expected, we stop and explain it rather than quietly adding it to the invoice. It's a small-town way of doing business, and it's the reason most of our work comes from people who were referred by somebody we already worked for.
Licensed, insured, and inspected
Electrical work is one of the few trades where cutting corners doesn't show up until something catches fire. Every job we do is performed under a Texas electrical contractor license and carries liability insurance, and we pull permits on the work that requires them — panel changes, service upgrades, new circuits, generator transfer switches.
Ask to see the license and the insurance certificate. Any contractor who hesitates on that question is telling you something.
A note on unlicensed work: in Texas, electrical work for hire has to be done by a licensed contractor. Unpermitted panel and service work is also one of the first things a home inspector flags on a sale, and insurers have denied fire claims over it. It's worth doing correctly the first time.
The 2024 Locals Love Us award
We were voted a 2024 Locals Love Us winner for the Hallsville area. That award is based on customer voting rather than anything we bought or applied for, which is why we're happy to mention it. Our Google rating currently sits at 5.0.
Where we work
We're based in Hallsville, and we work anywhere within 48 miles of Longview. That's the honest boundary — far enough to cover most of the region, close enough that we can actually get to you when we say we will.
Inside that radius: Longview, Hallsville, Kilgore, White Oak, and Gladewater are practically next door. Marshall, Henderson, Gilmer, Big Sandy, Overton, Tatum, and Jefferson are routine. Tyler, Whitehouse, Troup, Carthage, Beckville, and Waskom sit near the outer edge but we get there regularly.
If you're right around that 48-mile line, call and ask rather than guessing. Depending on the size of the job and what else we have going that week, we can often make it work.
How we schedule
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. Most non-emergency work gets scheduled within the same week. If you call after hours, leave a message — we return calls the next business morning.
For anything involving smoke, a burning smell, sparking, or a panel that's hot to the touch: shut the breaker off if you safely can, and call us right away rather than waiting for a callback.
Serving everywhere within 48 miles of Longview
Based out of Hallsville, we cover everywhere within 48 miles of Longview. If you're near the edge of that, call and we'll tell you straight away whether we can get to you.
Towns inside our 48-mile radius
Want to talk to us directly?
If you're within 48 miles of Longview, call and you'll get one of the people who does the work — not an answering service reading from a script.