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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.