Residential Renovation Wiring in Toronto & the GTA

For new wiring, yes. Adding circuits, moving receptacles, or roughing in a renovated room requires an ESA notification of work and inspections — a rough-in inspection before the walls close and a final when the work is complete. As a licensed electrical contractor (ECRA/ESA 7014948), we file it and arrange both inspections for you.

Twice. First at rough-in — after framing is up and before insulation and drywall — when running wire is fast and changes are easy. Then again at the finish, once painting and surfaces are done, for receptacles, switches, fixtures and testing. Bringing us in before the walls close is what keeps a renovation’s electrical simple.

Yes — most renovation wiring is exactly that. We coordinate rough-in and finish dates with your contractor’s schedule, work from the drawings, and flag anything electrical the plan is missing before it becomes a change order. No contractor? We work directly with homeowners running their own project just as often.

It depends on who’s doing the choosing. Plenty of general contractors hire premium electricians, and going through one of those is a perfectly good route — a good GC may pick a better electrician than you’d find on your own. The ones to watch for are the GCs who just have the cheapest electricians. They’re fine at millwork, carpentry, cabinets, drywall and framing, but the stronger electrical and HVAC trades typically aren’t on their roster — premium mechanical contractors don’t work at cut-rate prices. Going through any GC also adds their markup on top of the electrical work. Hiring directly removes the markup — but only hire direct if you’re hiring on quality, not price. If you shop for the cheapest electrician yourself, you lose the same way: electrical and HVAC are the trades where cheap costs you twice, once in the work itself and again when it fails inspection or has to be redone. Electrical is also the worst place to save money for a practical reason: it lives inside your walls. Once the drywall is up, fixing cheap work means opening the walls — it can’t be done easily or inexpensively after the fact. And an ESA inspection, essential as it is, is a checkpoint on the day, not a guarantee of craftsmanship: an inspector can only check what’s in front of them. The quality of what’s hidden in your walls is set by the contractor who put it there. When you hire us directly, you choose a licensed mechanical contractor yourself, and the permit, the inspection and the warranty sit between you and us — nobody else.

It depends on what the renovation adds. A new kitchen with dedicated appliance circuits, a bathroom with in-floor heat, a basement suite — each adds load. We do a proper load calculation against your existing service before the work starts. If a 100A service will not carry it, we will tell you up front and quote the upgrade as part of the same project.

It depends on the scope: the number of circuits and fixtures, the condition of the existing wiring, panel capacity, and permit requirements. We do not price renovation wiring from a web page — we look at the plans or the space, scope the full job, and give you an exact quote to approve before any work starts.

Toronto, Etobicoke, Mississauga, North York, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Vaughan and the surrounding GTA. Renovation wiring is a regular part of our week, from single bathrooms to full main-floor renovations.