Master electricianin Brossard
We cross the Samuel-De Champlain bridge to work in Brossard from our base in Verdun. It is one of the South Shore cities where we work the most regularly. Brossard has something few cities have: its sectors carry letters, and the letters tell you the era of construction. That is useful information for an electrician before he has even seen the house.
- RBQ 5855-0849-01
- CMEQ 17468
The brands and suppliers we work with
The letters of Brossard tell
you the age of the installations
About four homes in ten in Brossard were built in the 1960s and the 1970s. The rest went up mostly in the 1980s and the 2000s. That double wave reads directly in the way the city is divided into lettered sectors.
Sectors A and B, the oldest, run along the river with their bungalows and two-storey houses from the 1960s and the 1970s. Sectors L and S date from the same period and their building stock is ageing. At the other end, the DIX30 and Solar Uniquartier line up recent condos and towers.
For us it translates simply: in the older sectors, the question is almost always the capacity of the service. In the recent sectors, it is more about co-ownership and shared installations.
Your sector letter tells you the era of construction, so the likely state of the service.
Sectors A, B, L and S
Single storey bungalows from the 1960s and the 1970s. Services sized for their era, often the first obstacle in an add on project.
DIX30 and Solar Uniquartier
Recent condos and towers. Work touching the common areas goes through the co-ownership syndicate, and that gets planned differently.
What we get asked
for most in Brossard
The back yards of Brossard are large, so are the driveways, and it shows in the nature of the calls.
EV charger in the driveway
The bungalow with an attached garage is the ideal format for a charger. The distance to the panel is short, and the load calculation decides the rest.
EV charger installation
Pool and hot tub wiring
The big yards of Brossard are full of them. The conduit goes in while the ground is open, never after the landscaping.
Pool and hot tub
Service upgrade to 200 amps
In the sectors from the 1960s and the 1970s, it is often the prerequisite for everything else.
Electrical panel upgrade
In Brossard,
electrical work does not require a permit
On the City’s side
It is the City of Brossard that says so. Its page on work touching residential technical equipment and systems lists electrical work among the work that requires no municipal permit, on the same footing as plumbing, installing a heat pump or putting up solar panels.
That does not mean there is no formality. It means the formalities are elsewhere: the declaration to the Régie du bâtiment, and the connection request to Hydro-Québec when the service is modified. Both are on us.
Watch the nuance: if your electrical work is part of a larger renovation that touches the structure, an extension or the use of a space, it is that renovation that calls for a permit, not the electrical part.
The RBQ declaration, and its two exceptions
In Quebec, it is the electrical contractor who declares the work to the Régie du bâtiment, never the owner. That declaration is our business, it is included in the work, and it is filed under our licence numbers.
Two situations exempt you from it, and they are precise. Work already covered by a connection request made to the electricity distributor does not have to be declared on top of that. Neither does work of 10 kW or less that requires no cable replacement and no cable addition. The RBQ sets those two exceptions, not us.
The rebates that
apply in Brossard
Brossard has no municipal program equivalent to the RénoPlex of Montreal. The rebates that apply here are the provincial programs, the same everywhere in Quebec: Écorecharge for a home EV charger, LogisVert for solar self generation.
We keep them up to date on a dedicated page rather than copying amounts that change with every budget year. The program administrator decides on your eligibility, never your electrician.
Every program, with up to date amountsWhat changes the
price in Brossard
We do not post prices and we do not give them over the phone. We assess on site, then we quote.
The sector and the age of the building
A bungalow in sector A or B and a DIX30 condo present neither the same installation nor the same access constraints.
The distance to the equipment
Brossard lots are large. From the panel to the pool, the hot tub or the detached garage, the route decides the wiring.
What has to be crossed
An open lawn, a paved driveway or a deck that is already built call neither for the same work nor for the same restoration.
The distance from our base
We come from Verdun, over the bridge. Travel counts in the assessment, as it does for the whole South Shore.
A sense of the
price, before you even call
6 families of work, a few questions about yours, and the tool shows a range. It is an estimate to situate your project, not a quote: the real price is confirmed on site.
Questions in Brossard
Frequently asked questions
Nothing here promises a timeline or an amount: for that, we need to see the job.
No. The City of Brossard lists electrical work among the work that requires no municipal permit, with plumbing and installing a heat pump. The formalities are elsewhere: the declaration to the Régie du bâtiment and, when the service is modified, the connection request to Hydro-Québec. Both are included in our work.
All of them. The older sectors near the river as well as the recent developments around the DIX30. What changes from one sector to the next is the age of the installation and therefore the nature of the work, not our availability.
Often yes, and the attached garage keeps the route short. The real question is the capacity of your service: the load calculation adds up what the house already draws and what the charger is going to ask for. It is done on site, before the charger is ordered.
Yes. Dedicated circuit, ground fault protection, disconnect and equipotential bonding. We do not dig the trench: we provide the route, the depth and the conduit, and we coordinate with your excavator or your landscaper.
Not to our knowledge. The rebates that apply in Brossard are the provincial programs, like Écorecharge for an EV charger. We keep them up to date on our rebates page rather than posting amounts that change every year.
We also work
around Brossard
- Montreal’s Southwest
- Verdun
- Saint-Lambert
- La Prairie
- Longueuil
Tell us about your project
Describe it in a few words, even if it is still just an idea. We assess on site what your installation can take, and you decide from there.
(514) 929-9963