Residential Electrical Services in Dartmouth & Halifax

If the basement still has a fuse box, your insurer has probably mentioned it and so will a buyer. Replacing it with a modern breaker panel is the work this shop is best known for.

Older Dartmouth and Halifax houses were wired for a fraction of what a family now plugs in. Adding a heat pump or a hot tub usually means moving up to a 200 amp service first.

Houses wired in the late 1960s and early 1970s often have aluminum branch wiring, and insurers now require it pigtailed before they will write a policy. Nova Scotia Power inspects the work and issues the certificate.

A car charger pulls more than almost anything else in the house. The load calculation comes first, so you find out whether the panel can carry it before the charger turns up in a box.

A Generlink fits behind the meter so a portable generator can feed the house directly. No extension cords run through a window the next time a storm takes the power out.

Baseboards that have stopped putting out heat, a thermostat that clicks and does nothing, or a bathroom floor you would rather not step onto in February.

The HVAC crew hangs the unit. The circuit that feeds it, the outdoor disconnect and the panel capacity to run it are the electrical half, and that half is Jamie's.

No hot water is more often an element or a thermostat than a dead tank. Finding out which one it is comes before anybody starts pricing a replacement.

The cheapest change that makes a room look renovated. Laid out so the light lands where you actually stand, not in a grid for the sake of a grid.

Motion-sensitive fixtures at the doors and the driveway, so nobody is hunting for a keyhole in February.

Fitted on a box rated to carry the weight and balanced so it runs quiet. The light box already up there usually is not rated for a fan.

Under-cabinet strips, pendants over the island, and enough properly split circuits that the kettle and the toaster stop arguing with each other.

Fan venting that actually reaches the outside, GFCI protection at the counter, and in-wall heaters for the months when the floor is freezing.

A fan that rattles, or one that was never ducted past the attic. Water dripping from a bathroom ceiling in winter is almost always the second one.

A tub or a pool needs its own correctly sized and protected circuit, and the metalwork around it bonded. Jamie runs the load calculation and checks the panel has the capacity before anything gets ordered.

A dedicated circuit for the freezer, the compressor or the shop lights, or a shed that was never wired in the first place.

A breaker that keeps tripping, a circuit that died, half the kitchen dark. Finding the cause is a separate skill from fixing it, and it is most of the job.

One dead outlet. A switch that buzzes. A fixture nobody could reach. This is the work the company was built on, and it still gets booked.

The outside plug that quit sometime last winter, or a new one by the driveway so the Christmas lights are not run out through a window.

Selling, or the home inspection came back with electrical items on it. Jamie works through the list so the deal keeps moving.