Master electricianin Verdun
A charger to install, a panel that no longer keeps up, radiant floor heating to plan for? In the plexes of Verdun, it all starts with the same question: what your service can still carry. We are based right here, on rue Claude. No bridge to cross to come and measure it.
- RBQ 5855-0849-01
- CMEQ 17468
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What Verdun has
inside its walls
Verdun is a plex neighbourhood, and that changes everything for an electrician. According to the 2021 census, 43.2% of homes here were built in 1960 or earlier. Buildings under five storeys hold 46.8% of all homes, duplexes another 20.4%, and 62.4% of households rent.
A plex does not have one electrical service, it has several. Each unit has its own meter, often grouped in the same spot, and the available capacity cannot be read off the panel of a single apartment. That is the first thing we check in a building here, before we even talk about the work you asked for.
Île-des-Sœurs is the exception in the borough: the building stock there is clearly more recent, towers and condos, with installations from another era and other constraints.
Our address is here. No bridge to cross to come and look at your installation.
Several meters, one service
In a plex, the main service feeds the individual meters. Adding a charger or radiant floor heating in one unit is calculated on both levels, not on one.
Buildings that often share a wall
Verdun plexes touch each other. Where the mast goes, the cable route and access to the façade are decided with the neighbour in mind, not just your own place.
What a plex
asks for most often
In an older building, the work we get called for almost always comes back to the same constraint: capacity. It was sized for a time when nobody charged a car or heated a bathroom floor.
Panel replacement and service upgrade
The most common job in a building from before 1960. The load calculation says what the existing service already carries, and what is left for what comes next.
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EV charger in a plex
Capacity is not the only question, there is also which meter the charger is wired to. An owner occupant and a tenant are not in the same situation.
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Radiant floor heating during a renovation
Plex bathrooms get redone, and that is the moment the cable goes in. Once the tile is down, the chance is gone for ten years.
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RénoPlex,
and why Verdun is concerned
The City of Montreal has a program the South Shore does not: RénoPlex, reserved for buildings of 1 to 5 units. That is exactly the format of the Verdun housing stock, and electrical work is eligible.
One condition decides everything, and it is the one that costs the most applications: the work must not start before the application is accepted. Approval takes several months, and you then have 18 months to have the work done. An owner in a hurry who has his service changed before his confirmation loses his eligibility.
That is also why we like being called in at the planning stage: the right time to file an application is before anything is taken apart.
A few conditions to check
- Building with 1 to 5 units, located within the City of Montréal
- Approval obtained BEFORE the work starts
- Work completed within 18 months of acceptance
- Eligible electrical work: panel upgrade, charger connection, heating conversion
- Itemized invoice from a licensed contractor
Permits,
declaration and connection in Verdun
On the City’s side
For electrical work in your own building, you generally have no permit to request from the borough. What the rules require is that the contractor doing the work holds their licences: a Régie du bâtiment licence and membership in the Corporation des maîtres électriciens. We hold both.
Verdun is a borough of Montreal, and it is the borough that issues permits, not the central City. Requirements vary from one to the next, and a project that touches the façade, the structure or the use of a space does call for a permit. We tell you what yours involves during the visit.
The RBQ declaration: we take care of it
At VGI, we declare our own work to the Régie du bâtiment whenever a declaration is required. It is included in the work and filed under our licence numbers.
For the work we do, two situations exempt it. Work already covered by a connection request made to the electricity distributor does not have to be declared on top of that, and neither does work of 10 kW or less that requires no cable replacement and no cable addition.
What changes
the price in Verdun
The price depends on your installation and on the factors below. Our online estimator gives “starting at” prices for each type of work, and the final figure is confirmed after the visit.
See starting prices in the estimatorThe number of units affected
Work in a single unit and work that touches the shared service of a triplex do not price out the same way.
Access and parking
Verdun streets are narrow and parking is scarce. Access to the building and to the cable route counts in the time spent on site.
The age of the existing installation
What we find behind a panel from before 1960 is not what we find in an Île-des-Sœurs condo. We see it when we open it.
The distance from our base
It is zero here: our address is in Verdun. It is the one place in our service area where travel weighs nothing.
One master electrician,
from the quote to the final tests
VGI Électrique is Marc-André Vinet. The person who assesses your project is the one who does the work and answers afterwards. RBQ and CMEQ licences, one-year warranty on labour and parts.
More about us« Service impeccable ! L'électricien a été ponctuel, professionnel et a fait un travail de grande qualité. Tout fonctionne parfaitement. Je recommande sans hésitation ! »
Charles Tremblay-Roy« Véritable allié stratégique pour nos projets d'électricité, Marc-André est efficace, courtois et rapide. Nous le recommandons! »
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A sense of the
price, before you even call
A few questions about your project, 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 Verdun
Frequently asked questions
Nothing here promises a timeline or an amount: for that, we need to see the job.
Yes. VGI Électrique has its address at 3863 rue Claude, in the borough of Verdun. It is not a service address, it is the company address.
Yes, that is the common stock in the neighbourhood. In a plex, we look at the main service and the individual meters together: the capacity available to one unit cannot be read off its own panel.
Yes, and it is simpler than people expect. In a triplex, each unit usually has its own meter: the charger is wired to the meter of the unit it serves, so that person pays for the power they use. What changes from one case to the next is the cable run. A charger for the ground-floor unit takes less work than one for the third floor, where the supply has to be carried further. We look at the route and the panel capacity during the visit.
The City of Montreal program covers buildings of 1 to 5 units and electrical work is eligible. The condition not to miss: the work must not start before your application is accepted. The program administrator decides on your eligibility, not your electrician.
Yes, it is part of the borough. The building stock there is more recent and the constraints are different, in particular in co-ownership, where work touching the common areas goes through the syndicate.
We also work
around Verdun
- Montreal’s Southwest
- LaSalle
- Lachine
- Ville-Émard
- Côte-Saint-Paul
Our articles to
see things clearly
How many amps for an EV charger
A level 2 charger runs on a dedicated circuit, most often a 40 amp one. But the number that decides your project is not that one: it is what is left available in your electrical service.
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100 amp vs 200 amp service
The rating of your service is stamped on the main breaker, at the top of the panel. What decides an upgrade is neither its age nor its looks: it is what you want to add to it, and the load calculation that measures it.
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Radiant floor heating
Electric radiant floor heating goes down before the floor covering, never after. The install itself takes about a day, but the decision is made much earlier: while the floor is still open and the circuit can still be run.
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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.
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