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Agricultural electrical services

We maintain and repair the electrical systems of farm buildings, from Montreal's Southwest out to the Montérégie. Grain drying, heat lamps in livestock buildings, additions, upgrading what the buildings now draw, and bringing years of add-ons back up to code.

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Régie du bâtiment du Québec
RBQ licence
5855-0849-01
Corporation des maîtres électriciens du Québec
CMEQ member
17468
Our service

What we do on a farm

On a farm, the electrical work is almost never the project: it is what lets the rest of the operation run. A dryer that will not start holds up a harvest, and a heat lamp that quits in a livestock building becomes a problem for the animals before it becomes a lighting problem. So we work with what is already there: what holds stays, what no longer holds gets redone, and we show you the difference before we start.

  • We maintain and repair the systems in your farm buildings
  • We feed and protect grain dryers
  • We install heat lamps for livestock buildings
  • We bring work done without an electrician back up to code
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How it works

From the call to power back on

  1. We look at the building and what it runs

    Livestock, drying, workshop, storage. What the building produces decides what the installation has to carry, and that is almost never what it carried when it was built.

  2. We measure what the supply can carry

    The load calculation for the building, with what is already connected and what you want to add. That is what says whether an addition fits on the existing supply or whether the supply has to be redone.

  3. We repair, replace or upgrade

    What is still good stays in place. What is corroded, undersized or added without protection gets redone. We show you the difference before we touch anything.

  4. We label, we test and we put it back in service

    The circuits get labelled, the installation gets tested, and the work is declared under our licence numbers. One year warranty on parts and labour.

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Grain dryer and its electrical enclosure inside a farm building
Assessment

What we look
at in the building

Four things, and the first one decides all the rest: what the building has to run.

  • What the building has to run

    A livestock building, a dryer, a workshop and a storage shed do not call for the same supply or the same protection. The use comes before everything else.

  • What the supply can carry

    The capacity reaching the building and the room left in the panel. On a farm, that is often what limits an addition, and it is the first thing we check.

  • The state of what is already there

    Corrosion, moisture, enclosures left open and circuits added season after season. A farm building wears out electrical equipment faster than a house does, and it shows on site.

  • What was done without an electrician

    What got pulled one day to get through and stayed. We tell you what has to be redone to be compliant, and what can stay as it is.

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Livestock building lit by a row of heat lamps
The scope

What makes the price move

Four things, and three of them only show up once we are on site.

A recent, labelled panel is quick to work from. A building where add-ons piled up with no labels and no protection, much less so.

A dryer, ventilation and a row of heat lamps do not call for the same cable size or the same protection. The equipment list decides the rest.

A farm spreads out. The run between the supply point and the building changes the cable size and the work it takes to get it there.

Dust, moisture, pressure washing, animals in the room. The equipment that holds up in a livestock building is not what goes in a garage, and it shows on the material list.

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The state of the installation

We do not post prices and we do not give them over the phone. Two buildings of the same size can call for two very different jobs. We assess on site, then we quote.

The work

What we do in a farm building

Five families of work, and a list of exclusions we name instead of leaving you to find out.

This is the bulk of our agricultural work: checking, tightening, replacing what has corroded and redoing what was added without protection. Dust, moisture and pressure washing are unforgiving to an enclosure that does not close properly.

Feeding and protecting a grain dryer: the cable size, the protection for the fan motor and a disconnect within reach. A dryer gets prepared before the harvest, because during it there is no window left to shut it down.

The heat lamps, their circuits and their controls. These are continuous loads, often added one at a time to a circuit that was never sized for them: that is the first thing we recalculate.

A building being extended, a workshop being added, equipment replacing something smaller. The existing supply gets recalculated before the work, not after: it is what says whether the project fits as it stands.

What got pulled over the years without an electrician: a temporary hookup that became permanent, a circuit with no grounding, a panel with no room left. The work is declared under our licence numbers.

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Not included: industrial maintenance, factories and high volume jobs, nor robotics and agricultural production lines. Those are not the jobs we do, and we would rather tell you on the first call.

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Master electrician at an open electrical panel in a farm building
5,015 avis
Google
One

Person to deal with, from diagnosis to power back on

The person who saw your installation is the person who repairs it. Nothing to explain over again on the next call.

2,000+

Projects over a career, residential, light commercial and agricultural

180

Projects a year, the same master electrician on each one

1 year

Of warranty on parts and labour

What makes us legitimate

A farm is a set of installations, not a job site

A master electrician, about ten years in the trade, and the habit of working in buildings where nothing is new.

On a farm, the electrical system got built by addition: a building extended, a dryer replaced by a bigger one, a circuit pulled one year because it had to work. Our job is rarely to start over. It is to read what is there, to say what still holds and what does not, and to bring back up to code what was added without an electrician. In exchange, we do not do industrial maintenance or production robotics, and we say so on the first call.

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What people say about us
  • Charles Tremblay-RoyGoogle review★★★★★

    « Service impeccable ! L'électricien a été ponctuel, professionnel et a fait un travail de grande qualité. Tout fonctionne parfaitement. Je recommande sans hésitation ! »

  • Isabelle GervaisGoogle review★★★★★

    « J'ai fait affaire avec cette entreprise quelques fois et je recommande fortement. Service super professionnel, et le travail est impeccable. »

  • Etienne Gauvreau-HurtubiseGoogle review★★★★★

    « Véritable allié stratégique pour nos projets d'électricité, Marc-André est efficace, courtois et rapide. Nous le recommandons! »

  • joel touchetteGoogle review★★★★★

    « Service professionnel, offre des options pour ne pas augmenter le prix inutilement concernant le choix des travaux à réaliser »

  • Charles Tremblay-RoyGoogle review★★★★★

    « Service impeccable ! L'électricien a été ponctuel, professionnel et a fait un travail de grande qualité. Tout fonctionne parfaitement. Je recommande sans hésitation ! »

  • Etienne Gauvreau-HurtubiseGoogle review★★★★★

    « Véritable allié stratégique pour nos projets d'électricité, Marc-André est efficace, courtois et rapide. Nous le recommandons! »

  • Isabelle GervaisGoogle review★★★★★

    « J'ai fait affaire avec cette entreprise quelques fois et je recommande fortement. Service super professionnel, et le travail est impeccable. »

  • joel touchetteGoogle review★★★★★

    « Service professionnel, offre des options pour ne pas augmenter le prix inutilement concernant le choix des travaux à réaliser »

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Your questions

Frequently asked questions

Nothing here promises a timeline or an amount: for that, we need to see the job.

Maintaining and repairing the electrical systems of farm buildings, grain drying setups, heat lamps, additions, capacity upgrades and code compliance work. We do not do industrial maintenance, factories or high volume jobs.

No. Automated production systems are a trade of their own, with their own suppliers and their own after sales service. We would rather point you elsewhere than do it halfway.

Yes. We set the cable size, the protection for the fan motor and the location of the disconnect from the nameplate on the unit. It is work that gets planned before the harvest, because during it the dryer cannot be shut down.

Yes, and it is a good part of our work on a farm. We survey what is there, we label the circuits, then we tell you what has to be redone to be compliant and what can stay. You decide the order of the work from there.

We do come out, but we do not promise a timeframe, and be wary of anyone who does over the phone. Call or text Marc-André with which building is affected and what stopped working, and he will tell you plainly what he can do.

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Where we install

Châteauguay, Sainte-Martine, Beauharnois, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, La Prairie, and the rest of Montreal’s Southwest and the South Shore. Not sure you are in the area? A text message at (514) 929-9963 does the job.

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