About
Meet Matthew Rauch.
Craftsman. Owner. In the electrical trade since 2004.
Matt started in the electrical trade in 2004 and came up through a formal apprenticeship, which is still the way the trade is best learned: under people who have already made every mistake and won't let you repeat them.
He worked residential and commercial jobs across several states and spent about ten years as a commercial foreman, running crews and answering for the quality of everything that went in the ground and in the walls. That experience is the reason he's comfortable on a job that turns out to be more complicated than it looked.
He came back to East Tennessee to focus on residential work, because that's where the craft and the customer are closest together. In a house, the person paying for the work is standing right there, and they have to live with the result.
Rauch Electric is the shop he built to do that work on his own terms: enough structure that there's real accountability behind the job, small enough that the owner is the one doing it.
Would we be comfortable with this work in our own family's home?
If the answer isn't yes, the job isn't finished.
How Matt works
Technical skill is only part of what defines an electrician. The rest of it shows up in how somebody behaves in your house when nothing is going according to plan.
He keeps his word
If he says he'll be there Tuesday, he's there Tuesday. If something changes, you hear it from him before you have to ask.
He won't cut a corner
Not on a hidden splice, not on a connection nobody will ever see, not at four o'clock on a Friday. The work is either right or it isn't done.
He explains what he's doing
You'll understand what's wrong, what the options are, and what each one costs, in plain language and before the work starts.
He treats your home like a home
Careful with floors and finishes, tidy while the work is happening, and cleaned up before he leaves.
- In the tradeSince 2004, over twenty years
- TrainingFormal apprenticeship
- LeadershipAbout ten years as a commercial foreman
- FocusResidential electrical work
- Based inClinton, Tennessee
The office side
Erica Rauch handles scheduling, invoicing and the paperwork, which is why calls get returned and quotes don't disappear into somebody's truck for a week.
Between the two of them, you get a real shop with real accountability behind it, without the layers of a large outfit between you and the person doing your work.
Why "or a member of our team"
Matt does the work. As Rauch Electric grows, anyone who joins him will be held to the same standard, trained the same way, and accountable to the same question about your family's home.
Tell us what's going on with your electrical.
Call or text and describe the problem. Photos help. We'll tell you what it takes to fix it.