Licensed electricians serving Brentford
Panel upgrades, rewires, pot lights and EV chargers. Franklin electric will pull the ESA permit, meet the inspector, and leave the breaker panel properly labelled.
- Covering Brentford
- ECRA/ESA licensed
- Permit & inspection included
- Fully insured
Book a visit
Pick a time that works. Takes about 30 seconds.
- ResponseSame day where we can
- Availability24/7 emergency call-out
- Call or bookRing the number, or pick a slot on the calendar.
- We confirmFranklin electric calls or texts back — same day where we can.
- We show upOn the day we said, with a price before we start.
Services
Electrical services in Brentford
Panel upgrades, rewires, pot lights and EV chargers. Franklin electric will pull the ESA permit, meet the inspector, and leave the breaker panel properly labelled.
Panel upgrades
Most bookedSwap a tired 60 or 100 amp panel for a 200 amp service so the house can carry a heat pump, an EV charger and a finished basement without nuisance trips.
Knob-and-tube & aluminum rewiring
Most bookedReplace the old wiring insurers refuse to cover, one circuit or one storey at a time, with as few holes in your plaster as the job allows.
EV charger installation
Most bookedLevel 2 charger mounted, load calculation done and the circuit run to the garage or driveway, permitted and inspected.
Pot light retrofits
Dimmable LED pot lights cut into existing ceilings on a proper switched circuit, laid out so the room lights evenly instead of in hot spots.
Troubleshooting & dead circuits
Half the outlets out, a breaker that keeps tripping, lights that flicker — we trace it to the actual fault instead of replacing parts and hoping.
Standby generators & transfer switches
Portable inlet or automatic standby generator wired through a proper transfer switch so you never backfeed the grid during an outage.
Service mast & meter base repair
Storm-damaged or pulled-away service masts re-secured and resealed, coordinated with the utility so power is off for hours, not days.
Smoke, CO & GFCI safety upgrades
Interconnected smoke and CO alarms, GFCI protection in kitchens, baths and outdoors, and AFCI breakers on bedroom circuits.
Not on the list? Send us the details and we’ll tell you straight whether it’s our job or someone else’s.
About
About Franklin electric
Franklin electric started with one van, a licence, and a habit of answering the phone. Since then the work has been the same: do it to code, explain it in plain language, and leave the place cleaner than we found it. Every job is permitted through the ESA, every panel gets labelled properly, and nothing gets buried behind drywall that we would not want an inspector to see.
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Owner, Franklin electric
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Credentials
Papers you can check before we knock
ECRA/ESA Licensed Electrical Contractor
Registered with the Electrical Safety Authority — licence number on every quote.
Master Electrician
Certified Master Electrician on staff and responsible for every job we take.
Red Seal 309A Electrician
Construction & maintenance electrician, Certificate of Qualification held.
$5M liability insurance
Certificate of insurance available on request before work starts.
WSIB coverage in good standing
Clearance certificate provided so you carry no liability for our crew.
ESA permit on every job
We file the notification and hand you the Certificate of Acceptance.
Service area
Where we dispatch
If you are on this list, we can get to you. Typical response: same day where we can.
- Brentford
Just outside it? Ask us — we travel further for bigger jobs.
Fastest estimate
Show us the problem instead of describing it
Send two or three photos. You get a first read back in minutes, then a call from a human.
- Up to four photos, straight from your phone
- A plain-English read on what we are looking at
- Franklin electric sees the same photos and calls you back
Send us a photo of your panel
Open the panel door, snap a photo of the label and the breakers, and add a line about what you want to add. Franklin electric will come back with a realistic range before anyone drives out to Brentford.
Questions
Asked before you call
The things homeowners want cleared up first.
The usual signs are a 60 or 100 amp service on the label, a fuse box instead of breakers, no room left for new breakers, or a breaker that trips whenever two big appliances run at once. If you are adding an EV charger, a heat pump, a hot tub or a basement suite, we do a load calculation first — sometimes the existing service is fine and you only need a subpanel.
Almost all electrical work in Ontario needs an ESA notification, and only a licensed contractor can file one. We pull it, meet the inspector, and give you the Certificate of Acceptance. Keep that certificate — insurers and buyers' lawyers ask for it, and unpermitted work is the most common thing that stalls a house sale.
For knob-and-tube, most insurers want it fully removed from the living space. For aluminum branch wiring, many will accept a certified pigtailing remediation at every device instead of a full rewire, which costs a fraction of the price. We inspect first, tell you which route your insurer will actually accept, and put it in writing.
A panel upgrade is a one day job for most homes, with the power off for roughly four to six hours in the middle of it. Rewires are done circuit by circuit so you keep power to the rest of the house overnight. We tell you the shutdown window the day before so you can plan around the fridge and anyone working from home.
Access, mostly. A basement with an open ceiling costs far less to run circuits through than a finished second floor with plaster walls. After that it is distance from the panel, whether the service itself needs upgrading, and how much drywall repair is involved. We quote a fixed price after seeing it, not a rate per hour that grows.
Yes — our workmanship is warrantied, and manufacturer warranty on the equipment is passed straight through to you. If something we installed misbehaves, we come back and make it right.
Contact
Tell us what is going on
Two fields and a sentence is plenty to get started. Typical response: same day where we can.
Opening hours
Hours- MondayToday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Tuesday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Wednesday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Thursday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Friday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Saturday
- 8 am – 1 pm
- Sunday
- Closed
24/7 emergency service — call anytime