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Commercial electrical services

We provide commercial electrical services for small commercial spaces across Montreal's Southwest and the South Shore: restaurants, offices, neighbourhood shops. Circuits, lighting, outlets and the panel, when a space changes use or a business moves in.

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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, and what we do not do

We do not do industrial maintenance or illuminated signs: we would rather say no than do it halfway. A commercial space has a date, a running lease and equipment arriving on a set day. We work with that schedule and we tell you early what it requires.

  • We start from the equipment to size the circuits
  • We adapt the electrical to the space's new use
  • We plan the dedicated circuits before delivery
  • We connect, declare and warranty the work
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Stainless steel restaurant kitchen and its electrical panel on the wall

How it works

From an empty space to commissioning

  1. We visit the space and look at what is there

    What is already in place, what belongs to the building, and what your business will ask for on top. An empty space does not yet tell you what it can do.

  2. We set the circuits from the equipment

    Your equipment list and its nameplates give us the dedicated circuits to plan for. That part has to happen before delivery, not after.

  3. We work to your schedule

    When we have to come through, what has to be done before us, and what stalls if we come too late. We tell you what your date requires on our side.

  4. We install, we label and we commission

    Circuits, lighting, outlets and the panel, then the labelling and the testing. One year warranty on parts and labour.

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Lighting being installed in the suspended ceiling of a commercial space
Assessment

What we assess in the space

Four things decide the job, and two of them do not even depend on you. That is why the visit comes before the number.

  • What the space has to hold

    A restaurant, an office and a retail shop do not call for the same circuits or the same lighting. The use comes before everything else.

  • The list of your equipment

    The nameplates give us the dedicated circuits to plan for. Without that list, no serious pricing is possible, and it is the first thing we ask for.

  • What is already in the space

    The capacity of the electrical service, the state of the panel and what previous tenants left behind. In an older space, that is often what limits the project.

  • What belongs to the building

    Part of the installation belongs to the owner, not to the tenant. We establish where that line falls before starting, so that nobody pays twice.

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Finished office space, suspended lighting and floor outlets
The budget

What makes the price move

The equipment first, then three things you only see inside the space.

Every appliance adds its dedicated circuit and its protection. A full kitchen and an office space do not compare.

Starting from an empty space or reworking an existing installation do not call for the same work or the same time on site.

A recent, labelled panel is quick to work from. A space with twenty years of additions by successive tenants, much less so.

The number of fixtures, where they go and the zone controls. A suspended ceiling and an open ceiling are not handled the same way.

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The equipment to feed

We do not post prices and we do not give them over the phone. Two spaces 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 commercial space

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

Circuits, outlets, lighting and cable runs when a space changes use. That is the bulk of the work: what an office needed is almost never what a shop will need.

Every appliance has its nameplate and its dedicated circuit. Oven, hood, fryer, dishwasher, refrigeration: the list gets made before the equipment is ordered, because it is the list that decides the capacity the space needs.

General lighting, task lighting and controls. A shop is not lit the way an office is, and one of the two gets run in zones rather than off a single switch at the door.

What your electrical service can carry, and the room left for what you are adding. In an older space, that is often the first thing that limits the project, and it is the first thing we check.

The work is declared under our licence numbers. The invoice carries the circuits installed and the equipment connected, which is what a building owner or an insurer can ask you for.

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Not included: industrial maintenance, factories, hospitals and high volume jobs, illuminated signs and decorative outdoor lighting. Those are not the jobs we do, and we would rather tell you on the first call.

Commercial space under fit-out, conduit and suspended ceiling in progress
Master electrician in a commercial space under fit-out
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One

Person to deal with, from quote to commissioning

The person who saw your space is the person who pulls the wire. That is the flip side of a company that does not take the big jobs.

2,000+

Projects over a career, residential and light commercial

180

Projects a year, the same master electrician on each one

1 year

Of warranty on parts and labour

What makes us legitimate

Small space, same standard

One master electrician, about ten years in the trade, and a deliberate choice to stay in light commercial.

VGI is a one master electrician company, and that is useful to know when you are picking a commercial electrician in Montreal for your space. Nobody hands your job to a crew you have never met, and nobody discovers your project the morning the work starts. In exchange, we do not take high volume jobs, 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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Price estimator

An idea of the price
before you sign the lease

The price of a commercial space comes down to what has to be added, the equipment to feed and the state of what is already there. The tool asks a few questions and shows a range. It is an estimate to place your project, not a quote.

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Électricien qui répond aux questions d’une cliente avant les travaux

Your questions

Frequently asked questions

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

The small ones: restaurants, offices, neighbourhood shops. We do not do industrial maintenance, factories, hospitals or high volume jobs. It is not a licence question, it is the type of work we do.

We do not promise a date, and be wary of anyone who does before seeing the space. What we do is tell you early what your schedule requires on our side, when we have to come through, and what will stall if a step ahead of us runs late.

Before ordering the equipment, or at the latest before it is delivered. Their nameplates are what decide the dedicated circuits and the capacity the space has to have. An oven that arrives before its circuit is an oven that waits.

The work happens Monday to Friday. We answer Monday to Saturday, 8am to 7pm, but the jobs themselves run on weekdays. Better to know that while planning than in the middle of your opening week.

No, neither signs nor decorative outdoor lighting. It is a trade of its own, with its own suppliers and its own ways of working, and we would rather point you elsewhere than do it halfway.

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Where we install

Verdun, LaSalle, Lachine, Châteauguay, Longueuil, 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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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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