A Northern Virginia trade family.
Anson Electrical & Remodeling was founded in 2005 by Brad Anson, a Virginia Master Electrician trained in the Shreve/McGonegal lineage. We've been working on Northern Virginia homes ever since - the same crew, the same standards, three Virginia trade licenses now under one roof.
Why we run jobs the way we do
I started Anson in 2005 because I wanted to run jobs the way I was trained.
I came up in the trades under Joe Shreve and the McGonegal team - two Northern Virginia master electricians who didn't cut corners. They worked panels in the same houses I work in now. They labeled every circuit. They lugged what should be lugged. They wrote quotes that the customer could read and understand. If a customer's box couldn't safely hold what they were trying to install, they said so. They didn't push the upgrade just because they were already there.
By the time I got my master license, I had spent enough years on jobsites watching what happens when an electrician treats a quote as a starting point for negotiation, or when a contractor sends three different crews to one project and they don't talk to each other. I wanted to build a company where the work I was trained to do - careful, code-correct, lined up to what the customer actually needed - was just the default.
Twenty years in, what's changed is the work, not the standards. We started as just electrical. In 2018 I got my Class B Builder license so we could run remodels end-to-end - kitchens, baths, basements - instead of being the electrical sub on someone else's poorly-coordinated job. In 2026 I got our plumbing license, finally. I was tired of telling customers "the plumbing sub is two weeks out" when our schedule was clear. Now we run our own.
The crew is mostly the same crew it's been for fifteen-plus years. The guys who frame a basement are the guys who run the wiring and the guys who set the tile. We work together. We know each other's standards. When something needs to be changed mid-project, you talk to me - not three different companies - and we figure it out.
Here's the part that matters most: the standard does not move with the size of the job. A 30-minute fixture swap that runs $400 gets the same written quote, the same licensed craftsman, and the same walkthrough as a $40,000 basement finish. Small jobs do not get the apprentice and the back-burner. Big jobs do not get the salesperson and the disappearance. It's the standards of a master craftsman on every job, no matter how big or small.
If you call us, you talk to me or someone on my team. We don't have a call center. We don't have dispatch. We charge for what we do, we do it right, and we want the next call - not the next sale.
Trained in the Shreve/McGonegal lineage
Northern Virginia has a small community of master electricians who've quietly trained generations of journeymen. Joe Shreve and the McGonegal team are two of them. They worked in Manassas, Bristow, Haymarket, Alexandria - the same homes we work in now.
Brad apprenticed under them in the early 2000s. The standards he learned - mechanical bonding lugs, properly labeled panels, written quotes the customer can read, no upselling - became the standards Anson runs on today.
The lineage isn't a marketing claim. It's how we know the things we know. When we tell you a panel is dangerous or a bonding connection isn't right, it's because we were trained to recognize it by people who'd been doing it right for forty years.
Real people you'll see on your job
No rotating subs, no call-center handoffs. The same team that quotes your job runs it from start to walkthrough. Most of us have worked together for 15+ years.
Team names and tenures will be filled in before launch. We typically run 4-6 crew on any given job, with additional licensed help brought in only for specialty work (HVAC mechanical, structural engineering) that's outside our three trades.
One contract for your whole remodel, not three
Most NoVA remodelers hold one or two of these. Anson holds all three. That's the structural reason we can quote a kitchen or basement remodel as one contract instead of three. One crew, one contract, the same standard whether the job is a $400 fixture swap or a $40,000 basement finish.
Master Electrician (VA)
The license that founded the company. Required for residential electrical work, panel upgrades, code corrections, and supervising other electricians on residential projects. Brad has held it since 2005.
Class B Builder (VA)
The license that lets us act as general contractor on residential remodels. Required to coordinate multi-trade projects with a written contract, schedule of values, and permit-pulling authority.
Plumbing (VA)
Acquired in 2026 so we can do plumbing in-house on our remodel projects. We don't market plumbing as a standalone service - it's an operational capability that eliminates the second-contractor coordination problem on remodels.
Four things you can count on, whatever the job
These aren't marketing claims. They're the operating rules we run the company by - the same ones Joe Shreve and the McGonegal team taught Brad twenty years ago. They hold on every job, no matter how big or small.
Same crew, every job
The team that quotes your project finishes it. No rotating subs. The person who looked at your panel on day one knows what's behind every breaker on the walkthrough.
Written quotes, itemized
Every quote is written, itemized, NEC sections cited where applicable, and good for 30 days. No verbal pricing. If the scope changes mid-job, we tell you before we do the work, not after.
Permits pulled, every time
We pull electrical, building, and plumbing permits in every NoVA jurisdiction we service. You never handle paperwork. We coordinate with inspectors and pass inspection the first time.
Customer for life
We charge for what we do. We don't upsell what you don't need. We want the next call - and the call from your neighbor when their panel acts up - more than we want to maximize this ticket.
Recent projects across Northern Virginia
What our neighbors say
Brad replaced our panel in one day. Cleaner job than I expected. Showed up exactly when he said he would.
Quick, clean, honest. They told us what we didn't need - saved us close to $400 on the original quote.
We hired Anson for a basement finish. Best contractor we've ever used. Same crew start to finish, written quote held, daily updates.
Ready to talk?
Free consultation. Written quote within 48 hours. Same crew. Same standards on every job, no matter how big or small. The work I was trained to do, the way I was trained to do it.