3e Electrical — Bloor West Village, Toronto

Electrician in Bloor West Village

The Village’s century homes were built beautifully — and wired for another era. Panel and service upgrades, clevis and mast repairs, and renovation wiring on Bloor West’s narrow brick lots, by licensed electricians and backed by a 10-year workmanship warranty.

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A 200-amp upgrade on a Village brick home

One Bloor West Village home we worked on had outgrown its service the way most Village homes eventually do — a renovated kitchen, air conditioning, and an electric car on the way, all asking more of an electrical service installed generations ago.

We replaced it with a full 200-amp upgrade: new service, new panel, and new feeders run in copper through a double-brick wall — the kind of wall that doesn’t forgive shortcuts. With the capacity in place, we finished the job with a 40-amp Flo charger at the driveway. It’s the pattern we see all over the Village: a house built for a few lights and a radio now running a modern household, made possible by upgrading the service first and adding the loads second.

A 40A Flo EV charger installed by 3e Electrical on a Bloor West Village home — Our 40A Flo installation on a Bloor West Village home — part of a full 200A service upgrade with copper feeders. Tap the photo to view it full size. (3e project.)

What we do in Bloor West Village

Start with the service, and the rest of the house’s electrical stops being a compromise.

Panel & 200A service upgrades

The Village specialty. Full service replacements — mast, feeders, panel — sized for the renovated kitchens, AC and chargers these homes now carry. Panel upgrades →

Clevis & service mast repair

Overhead services cross the Village’s mature trees to reach century-old brick. When the anchor rusts, pulls or gets flagged, the repair is the homeowner’s — and it’s ours to do properly. Clevis repair →

Renovation wiring

Additions and gut renovations on homes where every wall is plaster, lath and brick. Wiring planned against real panel capacity, permitted and inspected at rough-in and finish. Renovation wiring →

Lighting installation

Pendants over the island, sconces, dining fixtures hung dead level — on ceiling boxes actually rated for the weight. Lighting installation →

Troubleshooting & repairs

Tripping breakers, dead outlets, circuits with a history. Methodical fault-finding in houses where the wiring has been added to, more than once, over a hundred years.

EV charger installation

Chargers sized to the service — after the load calculation, not before. On a 100-amp Village home, that usually means load management or the upgrade conversation first.

Built in the 1910s–30s, wired for another era

Bloor West Village grew up along Bloor Street in the 1910s and 1920s — the shopping strip whose merchants’ association, founded in 1970, became the world’s first business improvement area. Behind the strip, street after street of detached and semi-detached brick homes went up on narrow lots: Runnymede, Willard, Glendonwynne, the streets running north and south off Bloor.

Most are solid masonry — double brick, or brick veneer over block — which makes them wonderful houses and particular electrical projects. Fishing a new circuit through plaster and lath without tearing the room apart is a skill; running new feeders through a double-brick wall is another. Many homes still run 100-amp services, some still have fuse panels, and the least-touched houses hold remnants of knob-and-tube wiring from the original build.

Space is the other Village constant: narrow mutual driveways, services that come in over the rear of the lot, and a mature canopy that keeps overhead lines working hard through every storm season. The electrical work here rewards planning — which is why a Village job so often starts with the service upgrade and builds from there. Homeowners weighing protection for all of it can also see our page on surge protection in Swansea, Baby Point and Bloor West.

Bloor West Village questions, answered

Why do so many Bloor West Village homes need a 200-amp upgrade?

Because the homes were wired for a different life. A 1920s service was sized for lights, a radio and maybe an icebox — not a renovated kitchen, central air, a hot tub and an electric car. When the load calculation says the existing 100-amp service is full, a 200-amp upgrade is what lets the house run everything it now owns, safely and with room to spare.

What does a 200A upgrade involve in a double-brick house?

Toronto Hydro disconnects the old service; we replace the mast, the feeders coming through the masonry, the meter-side equipment as needed, and the panel itself — then ESA inspects and Hydro reconnects. On a Village home like the one above, the feeders were run in copper through a double-brick wall. Most upgrades are completed in a day, with the power off for the working hours.

Copper or aluminum feeders — does it matter?

Both are code-approved when sized and installed correctly. Copper costs more, and it carries the same current in a smaller diameter, which can matter in tight century-home runs — it’s what we installed on our Bloor West Village upgrade. What matters most is that connections are made properly and torqued to spec, whichever material is used.

Can you add an EV charger without upgrading my service?

Sometimes. It starts with a load calculation on your actual usage. Many 100-amp Village homes can carry a charger with a load management device that pauses charging when the house peaks. Others are genuinely full — and then the upgrade comes first, the way it did on the Village job above, where the 40-amp Flo charger followed a full 200-amp upgrade.

Our service comes in over a narrow mutual driveway and the mast looks tired. Can that be fixed?

Yes — that’s a familiar Village picture. The mast and its clevis anchor are the homeowner’s equipment. We plan the access on tight lots, replace what’s rusted or pulling, and coordinate Hydro’s disconnect and reconnect under an ESA permit. See our clevis installation and repair page for how the repair works.

Planning work on a Village home?

Send us a photo of your panel and your service where it meets the house — on these homes, those two pictures tell us most of the story — and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.

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