We plan the space with you, standing in it
The single most useful hour on any renovation is the walkthrough before rough-in. We go room by room with you: where the furniture actually goes, which side of the bed you charge your phone on, whether the island gets a receptacle, where the TV lands, how you want the lighting switched when you walk in with your hands full.
Nobody regrets an extra outlet. Everybody regrets the one that ended up behind the couch.
Where we spend that hour
- Kitchens. Counter receptacle spacing, dedicated appliance circuits, under-cabinet lighting, island power, range and hood requirements, and the microwave circuit people forget until the drywall is up.
- Basements. Lighting layout, ceiling height constraints, a wet bar or bathroom rough-in, and enough circuits that a treadmill and a space heater can coexist.
- Bathrooms. GFCI protection, fan and light switching, heated floor feeds, and vanity lighting that does not make you look ill.
- Bedrooms and living spaces. AFCI protection, switched outlets, USB receptacles where they earn their keep, data where wireless will not cut it.
- Garages and shops. 240V for a heater, welder or compressor, proper task lighting, and receptacles at bench height rather than ankle height.
- Exterior. Soffit lighting, weatherproof receptacles, hot tub feeds, driveway and side-door lighting.
Rough in for the house you'll have, not just the one you're building. Conduit for a future EV charger, a spare circuit to the garage, a capped box where the pendant might go — pennies while the wall is open, hundreds afterwards. We will point these out. Adding them is always your call.
How we work on a renovation
Renovations run on sequence. We book the rough-in for when the framing and the mechanical are actually ready, not when the calendar says so, and we come back for finals when the paint is done. We coordinate with the other trades directly rather than making you the middleman, we keep the site swept, and when something on site changes the plan we tell you the same day — with what it means for cost and schedule — instead of at the invoice.
Permits and inspections are ours to handle. You will know the inspection dates and you will get the sign-off.
New builds and infills
On a new build we work from the plans and the walkthrough together, because the plans rarely capture how a family actually uses a house. We wire the whole envelope: service, panel, all branch circuits, interconnected alarms, exterior, garage, and the rough-in for whatever is coming later. Clean workmanship inside the walls matters even though nobody sees it — the next electrician in that panel will know exactly what we did and why.
Frequently asked
Both. Plenty of our work comes through builders and renovators, and plenty comes straight from homeowners managing their own project. Either way, you get the same person on site and the same direct line.
Earlier than most people do. Ideally at the design or framing stage, before the mechanical is in and definitely before insulation. Decisions made then are cheap; the same decisions after drywall are not.
Absolutely, and lots of clients do. Buy what you like the look of and we'll install it. We will flag it if something you have chosen is going to be a problem — a fixture too heavy for a standard box, or a dimmer that will not play with the driver.
Yes. The electrical permit is pulled under our licence and we book the rough-in and final inspections. That is part of the job, not an extra.