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William "Billy" Webber, Master Electrician
Master electrician licensed in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, working out of Pepperell. The person who quotes your job is the person who does it.
- NH Master Lic. #16011
- Owner-Operated
- Fully Insured
Looking for an electrician in Hudson, NH? WJW Electric is based in Pepperell, Massachusetts, and Billy Webber holds a New Hampshire master electrician license alongside his Massachusetts one — which is what permitted work in Hudson requires.
There’s a genuine historical connection between the two towns, as it happens. Hudson and Pepperell were both part of the original Dunstable Land Grant, along with Nashua and Dunstable, Massachusetts, before the state line was drawn through the middle of it in 1741. Hudson spent its early years as Nottingham West. The border is more recent than the neighborhood.
From Helper to Master Electrician — in Two States
What started as a job turned into genuine interest fairly quickly, and that interest pushed him through school and into his journeyman license. He worked for a company for a while, then started taking work on his own as a journeyman in Massachusetts.
That’s where the part he actually enjoys came into focus — the jobs he planned himself, completed himself, and got inspected himself. Getting called back by the same customers for more work years later. Walking back into a house and seeing people still enjoying something he’d installed.
He wanted to take it further, so he went back to school nights at Peterson for his master electrician license, took the test, and passed. Then he reciprocated that license into New Hampshire — which mattered because he lives right on the border, and New Hampshire, unlike Massachusetts, requires a master license to work on your own rather than a journeyman.
The unrestricted Construction Supervisor License came after that, and it was a deliberate move rather than another certificate. It lets him bring design-build work into the company — managing subcontractors directly and keeping control of the most expensive portions of a job, which takes cost out rather than layering it on.
What He’s Best At: Lighting
Ask Billy what he enjoys most and the answer comes back immediately — lighting and design. On something like 99 percent of the residential jobs he takes, he is the lighting designer: recessed lighting, under-cabinet and over-cabinet lighting, and outdoor landscape lighting.
That’s worth knowing if you’re planning a renovation. Most homeowners hire an electrician to install fixtures somebody else specified. On these jobs you’re getting someone who’ll tell you where the lights should actually go, how they should be switched, and what will make the room work — before anything gets cut into the ceiling. More on lighting and fixture work →
A Job Four Other Companies Walked Away From
A Hilton had a problem. The wires feeding their large road sign got cut during a parking lot repaving, leaving the sign dead — and the run back to the street was about 300 feet. The obvious fix meant trenching a parking lot they’d just finished paving, which they were firmly against.
Five electrical companies looked at it. Four never came back with an answer.
Billy spent a few hours on site actually opening things up — out in the lot, then through their electrical room — and found an unused circuit running from the electrical room out to the flagpole. The flagpole sat in the grass, past the new pavement. He confirmed the circuit would carry it, trenched and piped from the flagpole to the sign, and swapped the sign over to LED so voltage drop across that distance stayed minimal.
How He Works
WJW Electric is owner-operated. Billy performs the work on his jobs himself — he has taken on a part-time helper, a young guy who couldn’t get a start in the field, and the plan is to grow deliberately: train apprentices properly and keep them on as licensed electricians as the company expands.
For now, keeping it small is what makes it run cleanly. Nothing gets handed off, nothing gets lost between people.
On scheduling: communication comes back fast, and scheduling is typically sorted within 72 hours. Even during stretches when physical work has to be booked out, the back-and-forth up front — clear expectations, transparency about timing, planning done before anyone shows up — means jobs keep moving before the first day on site.
The work mix runs about 80 percent residential and 20 percent commercial. The commercial side differs mainly in voltage, wiring methods, and calculations; residential actually carries more code requirements. Applying residential troubleshooting habits in commercial settings has turned up more than a few money-saving solutions for local businesses.
Two Things He Won’t Do
Ask what frustrates him about this industry and you get a straight answer.
Poor communication. Things get missed or forgotten, and depending how far along a project is, that can be genuinely damaging. It’s the most common complaint about contractors of every trade, and it’s avoidable.
Unlicensed work and “license borrowing.” Unqualified people performing electrical work, sometimes under someone else’s license. It’s unsafe, it fails inspection, and it lands on the homeowner — usually at resale or when an insurer starts asking questions. If you take one thing from this page: verify that whoever works on your home holds the license for the state they’re working in.
Pepperell, and Both Sides of the Line
Billy is originally from the North Shore and has been in Pepperell for the last several years. The appeal was quiet country living over the congestion that’s built up around the city — and Pepperell and Southern New Hampshire have plenty of it.
He still works throughout the North Shore and Boston area, but a lot of the work now sits closer to home. Friends and family across Southern New Hampshire keep him up there regularly, and a good share of the New Hampshire jobs come through those connections. Over the years he’s worked all over the state — Nashua, Hollis, Brookline, Salem, Londonderry, Hampton, Seabrook, and as far north as Middleton.
Outside of Work
The gym, and family. Billy has a big one, so most weekends fill up with family events — and with his daughter’s softball games and whatever else she has going on. Vacations with her are the rest of it.