Electrician in Burnaby

Burnaby packs a lot into a small footprint: the tower clusters at Metrotown, Brentwood, and Lougheed, and the postwar houses on Capitol Hill, in the Heights, and around Deer Lake. We work across all of it, from a condo renovation to an older-house service upgrade. The city is really two electrical markets stacked together.

That split defines the work: strata EV charging and condo renovations on one side, older-house service upgrades and rewires on the other. Capitol Hill and Burnaby Heights homes in particular are full of services that predate today’s loads, while the towers bring their own questions about where power comes from in a shared parkade.

Common Burnaby jobs are service upgrades on older houses, strata and condo EV charger installs, pot lights and LED work during renovations, and basement-suite wiring. Hazard panels like Federal Pacific and Zinsco turn up regularly in the older neighbourhoods and are worth replacing on sight.

The defining Burnaby split is towers versus older houses, and the electrical work follows it. In a Metrotown or Brentwood strata, an EV charger install is really a question of where to draw power in the parkade and what the council will approve, and we do both the single-stall installs and the building-wide provisioning that makes future installs simple. On Capitol Hill or in the Heights, the same call is usually an older house on a 60- or 100-amp service that is out of room, often with a Federal Pacific or Zinsco panel an insurer has flagged. Those hazard panels come up often enough here that we treat them as replace-on-sight. Basement suites are common across Burnaby and add real load, frequently tipping a house toward a service upgrade and sometimes separate metering. Because the City of Burnaby inspects its own electrical, we keep those permits moving. Whether it is a condo or a postwar house, we run the load numbers before quoting so nobody buys an upgrade they do not need.

Electrical services in Burnaby

Everything we do for homes and businesses across Burnaby, from a single repair to a full renovation or new build:

• Panel & service upgrades in Burnaby — 100A to 200A upgrades, panel replacements, and service masts — permits and BC Hydro coordination handled.
• Home renovations & rewiring in Burnaby — Renovation wiring, full and partial rewires, custom home and new-build wiring, knob-and-tube and aluminum remediation, kitchens and basement suites.
• Lighting design & installation in Burnaby — Pot light and LED installation, under-cabinet and landscape lighting, retail display work, and custom fixtures across Metro Vancouver.
• EV charger installation in Burnaby — Level 2 home and strata charging, load calculations, and BC Hydro rebate paperwork.
• Commercial & tenant improvements in Burnaby — Retail fit-outs, offices, warehouses — from demising walls to occupancy, on the schedule your lease demands.
• Electrical repairs & troubleshooting in Burnaby — Dead circuits, warm outlets, tripping breakers, flickering lights — diagnosed and fixed, 24/7 for emergencies.

Not sure which one fits? Start with a call or a quote request and we'll point you to the right service.

Permits and inspections in Burnaby

Electrical permits in Burnaby are issued and inspected by the City of Burnaby, one of the few BC municipalities that runs its own electrical inspection rather than deferring to Technical Safety BC. That means the permit, the inspection, and the sign-off all happen at the municipal level, and we pull and close those permits as part of every job that needs one. Keeping that paperwork moving is part of the service, so a project doesn't stall waiting on an inspector.

When a job involves a service upgrade, we also coordinate the BC Hydro disconnect and reconnect, and for EV chargers we hand you the documentation your BC Hydro or CleanBC rebate application needs. Permitted, inspected work by a licensed contractor is what keeps a rebate from bouncing and an insurance file clean.

Working with Pro Volt in Burnaby

We're a licensed BC electrical contractor (#LEL0203630), fully insured, with the founder still on the tools rather than behind a desk. Burnaby is part of our regular route across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, so getting out to you isn't a special trip, and there's a 24/7 line for anything urgent — sparking, a burning smell, or no power. Every quote is a fixed written price after we've seen the work, not an estimate that creeps upward once the job starts, and every job that needs a permit gets one, pulled through the City of Burnaby and inspected. If you're weighing a panel upgrade against a charger, or a repair against a rewire, we'll tell you what the situation actually calls for instead of selling you the bigger job.

How a Burnaby job goes

It starts with an assessment — often photos for a simple job, a site visit for anything involving the panel, the service, or a run of any length. From there you get a fixed written quote. Once you approve it, we pull the permit through the City of Burnaby, book any BC Hydro work a service change needs, and schedule around your other trades if it's a renovation. On the day, the work is done to the current BC Electrical Code, tested, and left ready for inspection. We don't call a job finished until it has passed and, where a rebate is involved, until you have the paperwork in hand.