Worth saying in the first paragraph rather than the small print. Electrician Lisbon owns no van and no test meter. It takes your description of the fault, hands it to an independent electrician who works in that part of the metro area, and then gets out of the way.
A breaker that trips only when the washing machine spins is a different afternoon from a light fitting that needs moving two metres. The questions in the form are the ones an electrician asks on the phone before agreeing to come at all.
Whoever knocks on the door runs their own business. They set the price, issue the invoice with IVA in their own name, and answer for the work afterwards. Nothing is marked up through this site.
If nothing can be arranged in your area within the window you need, you hear that from us instead of hearing nothing. In a trade where a large share of the calls are urgent, a straight no beats a hopeful maybe.
Four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Where the property is, what stopped working and how to reach you. A photograph of the board says more than a paragraph ever will.
A tripping RCD, a full rewire and a dead gate motor are three different specialists. Sending all three to the same person wastes everybody's morning.
The job goes to an electrician who covers your area and you get their name. From that moment you are dealing with them, not with us.
The price comes from the person holding the screwdriver, before the work starts, and saying no costs you nothing.
Portuguese platforms publish what people report paying by the hour. For the larger electrical jobs nobody publishes anything at all — so this page says so, rather than filling the gap with a number that would look reassuring and mean nothing.
Hourly figures are what public Portuguese price pages report — an indication, not a quote. Sources: Zaask, Fixando's Lisbon electrician page and Taskrabbit for the hourly picture, Prummo for the small-job range, all read for the Lisbon market study in August 2026. Where no source publishes a number — a full board swap, a rewire — this site prints none. Full breakdown on the prices page.
If your problem is on this list, there is somebody in Greater Lisbon who does exactly that all week and would rather hear about it today than at midnight.
The distribution network is the same story across the whole metro area, so the meter and the supply rarely depend on your postcode. What does depend on the address is who is close enough to come out before dark — and whether the problem is inside your flat or in the building's own risers, which is a conversation with the condomínio rather than with an electrician.
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An independent electrician who works in your part of the metro area. They run their own business, quote their own price and answer for their own work. This site carries out no electrical work and takes no cut of the invoice.
No. Sending the request is free, and so is turning down the price you are offered. You pay the electrician for the work at the figure you agreed with them, and nothing at all to this site.
Ask for it before the work starts, not after. Electrical work on a fixed installation is regulated in Portugal and a registered installer can issue a declaration and an invoice in your name. Say in the form that you need the paperwork and it goes into the brief, because a one-person business will often not raise it unprompted.
Write to us in English and the Portuguese side of it is handled here. On site it varies: some electricians are comfortable in English and plenty are not. For anything complicated, have the address, the floor, the door number and a photo of the board ready — that removes most of the language from the problem.
It depends on the day and the address. A dead socket in Alvalade on a Tuesday morning is realistically same-day. A fault at midnight in Sesimbra is not something anybody should promise you through a web form. Say how urgent it is and you get a realistic answer instead of a marketing one.
Because the site is run from the Netherlands by Adsvantage, a marketing company, and showing a number that is genuinely answered beats inventing a Lisbon one. A Portuguese number is on the list of things to fix. Until it exists, WhatsApp reaches the operator fastest.
Open the hatch, photograph the row of breakers with the labels visible, and send it. An electrician reads more from that in two seconds than from any description of what the lights were doing.
Free, no obligation, and a straight answer if nobody in your area can take it.