Licensed electrical contractor — Vancouver, Burnaby & the North Shore
Apex handles 100A to 200A service upgrades, Level 2 EV chargers, pot lights and renovation wiring across Vancouver — every job permitted through Technical Safety BC, inspected, and quoted in full before anyone opens a wall.
Why panels fail people
Most homes east of Main were wired for a fridge, a stove and one television. Then came the heat pump, the induction range, the hot tub and the car in the driveway that wants 240 volts every night — all on a bus bar older than the mortgage.
Every slot full, tandem breakers doubled up where they were never rated to be, and a 15A kitchen circuit that trips the moment the kettle meets the space heater. That isn’t a nuisance — it’s a service at its limit.
Active knob-and-tube in a character home, or aluminum branch wiring from the late seventies. Brokers are declining both. What they’ll accept is documented remediation with a permit number attached — not a handyman’s reassurance.
Walls open, wire hanging out of a stud bay, three weeks of unanswered texts. Half-finished electrical is the most expensive kind of unfinished work, because the next electrician has to price everything they can’t see.
Undeclared work surfaces at the worst possible moment — a claim, a sale, or the afternoon a home inspector pulls the panel cover. Tearing out cash-job wiring always costs more than the permit would have.
What we do
100A to 200A service upgrades, meter base and service mast replacement, sub-panels for laneway houses and basement suites, and remediation of knob-and-tube and aluminum branch wiring. We run the load calculation, pull the permit, coordinate the BC Hydro disconnect, and hand back a labelled panel with a typed directory — usually with the power off for a single working day.
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Level 2 chargers on a proper dedicated 240V circuit — with load management or a sub-panel when the service is tight, and the load summary and drawing your strata council needs before they vote.
Check my panel capacityPot lights and dimmers laid out so a room actually reads well, smart switches that still work when the wi-fi doesn’t, kitchen and bathroom renovation wiring with the dedicated circuits and GFCI protection code requires, standby generator transfer switches — and the unglamorous work: finding the fault behind a dead circuit, a warm outlet or a breaker that trips at 6 PM every night.
How it works
Panel, grounding and bonding, breaker sizing, outlets, GFCI and smoke alarms — photographed as we go.
Your actual loads calculated, then a line-item price. If we find something in the wall, that’s our risk, not your change order.
Permit pulled under our contractor number, BC Hydro disconnect booked, drop sheets down, power back the same day.
Technical Safety BC inspection, typed panel directory, and the documentation your insurer or buyer will ask for.
“If it hasn’t passed inspection, it isn’t finished — and the final invoice waits until it does.”— The Apex sign-off rule
Panels, sub-panels and circuits installed
Jobs permitted and inspected, no exceptions
Call-out for dead circuits, sparking and burning smells
Average homeowner rating across Vancouver & Burnaby
Sample figures shown for demonstration — replaced with your real numbers.
Recent work
Concept imagery — replaced with your project photographySixteen circuits crammed into a twelve-slot panel, feeding a new heat pump and an induction range. New meter base, service mast, 200A panel and a typed directory — load calculation first, permit and inspection through Technical Safety BC. Power off at 8:40 AM, back on at 2:15 PM, before the kids got home from school.
Concept imagery — replaced with your project photographyA 48A charger on a dedicated circuit off the building’s house panel, with sub-metering so the owner pays for their own kilowatt-hours instead of the whole building. We wrote the load summary and single-line drawing the strata council wanted in hand before their vote, then installed after approval.
Concept imagery — replaced with your project photographyA 1929 character home with live knob-and-tube in two bedrooms and the attic, and an insurance renewal three weeks away. Rewired circuit by circuit through existing cavities, added AFCI protection at the panel, then twenty-two pot lights and dimmers across the main floor. The broker had the permit and inspection paperwork the same week.
A licensed electrician takes the panel cover off, tests what actually matters, and leaves you a photographed report — plus a fixed quote only if something needs fixing.
Straight answers
That’s a load calculation, not a guess. We add up your heat, range, hot water, EV and any suite, then compare it against the service you have. Plenty of Vancouver homes are out of physical slots long before they’re out of amps — in that case a sub-panel or a load-management device solves it for a fraction of a full service upgrade. We show you the numbers either way before quoting.
We do, under our licensed electrical contractor number, and the job is declared to Technical Safety BC and booked for inspection. Homeowner permits exist, but they put the liability and the inspection on you — and when you sell or file a claim, that’s the paperwork people look at. You get the permit number and the inspection record at sign-off.
Three normal outcomes: a dedicated 240V circuit if there’s capacity, an energy-management device that lets the charger share the service and back off when the range is on, or a service upgrade if the calculation says you’re genuinely at the ceiling. In a strata, we also prepare the load summary and drawing the council needs before approving a charger in shared parking, and we handle rebate paperwork where a program applies.
Most insurers want the active knob-and-tube gone, not certified. We inspect what’s still live, rewire circuit by circuit — fishing through existing cavities wherever we can, so the drywall bill stays small — and confirm nothing energized remains. Aluminum branch wiring is different: it’s usually remediated at every device with approved connectors. Either way you get the permit, the inspection record and a written summary your broker can file.
A panel or service change is typically four to seven hours in a single day, coordinated with the BC Hydro disconnect, and we tell you the window in advance so you can plan around the fridge and anyone working from home. Drop sheets go down, holes are cut where we agreed and nowhere else, drilling stops by early evening, and we vacuum before we leave. The panel goes back on the wall with a typed directory, not pencil on masking tape.
You’ll talk to the electrician doing the work