Your Electrician in Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough has nearly 800 heritage properties, and a third of the city's housing stock was built before the 1960s. The Avenues neighbourhood alone (Aylmer, Brock, Charlotte, Downie) has 348 properties in a Heritage Conservation District designated in 2016. These are gorgeous homes, but they come with wiring challenges that most electricians would rather avoid.

I've pulled knob-and-tube out of downtown century homes, carefully fishing new wire through plaster walls without tearing them apart. It takes patience and experience to modernize a home's wiring while keeping the original plaster, trim, and character intact. Rushing the job means patching holes everywhere. I'd rather take my time and do it right.

I've also dealt with aluminum wiring in hundreds of 1960s and 70s-era houses. The connections loosen over time, oxidize, and create real fire risk. Some insurers won't even cover homes with untreated aluminum wiring anymore. Whether that means pigtailing with copper at every device or a full rewire depends on the house and your budget. I'll walk you through the options honestly.

A lot of these older homes are running on 60-amp panels that were fine when the house had a toaster and a lamp. Now people want air conditioning, EV chargers, home offices, hot tubs. The panel can't keep up. Upgrading to 200 amps is one of the most common jobs I do in the city.

One thing that catches outside contractors off guard: Peterborough runs its own municipal utility. Unlike the rest of my service area where I coordinate with Hydro One, here I work with Peterborough Utilities. They have their own procedures for service upgrades, metering, and connections. I know how to navigate that, which saves time and avoids the back-and-forth that slows projects down.

With Trent University and Fleming College in town, there's also a huge amount of student rental housing. Landlords call me when tenants are tripping breakers constantly: six bedrooms full of computers, space heaters, and gaming setups on a panel that was sized for a family of four. I upgrade panels, add dedicated circuits, make sure smoke and CO detectors are hardwired and up to code. It's the kind of work that keeps tenants safe and keeps landlords compliant with Ontario's rental property requirements.

I also do commercial work downtown and along Charlotte Street: tenant fit-ups, LED lighting retrofits, dedicated circuits for equipment. Small businesses, offices, restaurants. When you call me, you talk to me directly. No dispatcher, no call centre, no runaround.