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Denver Electrician Bob Urban grew up on a farm outside the small town of Bison, KS - population 235. He began his electrical career in 1972. After just 4 years as an electrician he obtained a Master's electrical license and started Urban Electric in 1977, out of his home in Great Bend, KS. For the first few years Bob ran all service calls himself out of a 76 Ford truck. At night he performed all of the bidding and estimating on projects, both large and small. Urban Electric continually grew over several years until one day Bob decided he wanted to relocate to his birth state of Colorado. "There's nothing not to love about Colorado", stated Bob, "I fell in love with the state the first time I saw it." So, in 1987 Urban Electric relocated to Colorado. By 1990, Urban Electric began to focus on industrial projects such as water treatment plants and less on commercial and residential projects. However, throughout his career he continually noticed that electrical contractors considered working with homeowners a thing of last resort, something they would do only to keep their electricians employed when they were out of construction work or were in-between construction projects. "Contractors would send construction workers into customers' homes in-between jobs; they still do." Bob says. "Construction electricians don't have the necessary training or mentality for this. They're used to heavy physical work, not finish work. You can't just pull an electrician off of a job and send him out to Mrs. Smith's house. The electrician is accustomed to construction work so he'll be inefficient at Mrs. Smith's house and he won't have the right parts. Things come up all of the time and construction trucks just aren't stocked for Mrs. Smith's house. In the end, Mrs. Smith ends up getting overcharged for the work because the electrician didn't have the parts or the experience and charged by the hour. Besides, most guys I've seen over the years just aren't house-broken. This isn't fair to customers or electricians. The bottom line is: there's a big difference between construction electricians and service technicians. You really need a specialist with a van stocked for service work." There was a definite need in Colorado for an electrical company that works solely with home owners. Bob saw this need and was looking for the right person to help him "raise the bar" in the electrical industry. Along came Rob...

Denver electrician Rob Urban, the eldest son of Bob, grew up in Great Bend, KS. At the age of 18 he joined the Navy as a Sonar Technician and traveled the globe listening for Soviet submarines. During the final days of the Cold War, Rob worked many long, hard nights diligently listening to and tracking every twist and turn of allusive Soviet subs. Eventually, the Cold War ended and Rob attended to the University of Colorado where he graduated with a degree in Business. After college, Rob joined UBS (formerly PaineWebber) as a financial advisor. At the height of the technology boom Rob moved to San Jose, CA with his wife and joined Merrill Lynch. Rob advised many senior executives and founders of numerous technology companies. "I've always been interested in technology. Not for what it is, but for what it can do in the future. I'm always thinking 10-20 years into the future. This is what excites me. Moving to Silicon Valley was a great fit for me." Eventually, Rob returned to Colorado and joined Bank of America (formerly FleetBoston) as a Vice President - Investments. Over time, Rob realized, as he watched his dad's industry, that the electrical industry was about to change in a big way. "It was apparent to me that the electrical industry was about to make a shift from the way things used to be. People are so busy nowadays that they need an expert to help them. Times have changed too. When I was young we never locked the doors or windows. There was no need to. Unfortunately, you can't do that anymore. You just can't invite strangers into your home either. Those days are gone. Five years from now it won't be acceptable, or LEGAL, to have a service technician who enters your home without being thoroughly screened and background checked. We background-check all of our employees. They're also tested for things like honesty, dependability, and work-ethic. It's time to raise the bar in the electrical industry. No more excuses. That's why we started The WireNut."

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