For office tenants, retail units, restaurants, clinics and multi-tenant landlords across Peel, Halton, Wellington and Dufferin. After-hours scheduling, certificates of insurance on request, ESA-stamped sign-offs for landlords and brokers — all under ECRA/ESA #7002360 with the same chief electrician's 30+ years of commercial experience leading every scope.
Commercial calls almost never start with "schedule us in." They start with seven or eight pointed questions — about hours, insurance, scope and risk to the operation. Below are the conversations we have most weeks with office tenants, retail owners, restaurant operators and building managers across Southern Ontario. Read these first; the rest of the page picks up after you have your answer.
Can you actually work after hours so we don't have to close the store or send staff home?
Yes — most commercial scopes we run are quoted with the work window built in. Evening, weekend and overnight shifts are normal for retail, restaurant and office tenant work, especially anything that needs the panel powered down. The after-hours premium (if any) is itemised on the quote so you can compare it against the cost of an hour of lost trading.
Our landlord/property manager wants a Certificate of Insurance before we let any trade onto the floor. Can you issue one?
Yes. Lion Electric is fully insured, bonded and WSIB-covered, and we routinely issue Certificates of Insurance naming the landlord, property manager or general contractor as additional insured. Send us the COI requirements with the building rules and we'll have the certificate to your property manager before our crew shows up.
We're taking over a unit and the lease says we need a full electrical fit-out. Do you run that end-to-end, or just the rough-in?
End-to-end. As an ECRA/ESA-licensed electrical contractor we can take a tenant fit-out from the landlord's drawings through scope review, permit pulling, rough-in, fixture installation, panel labelling, and the ESA inspection sign-off your landlord and insurer will want on file. One quote, one name on the work order, one accountable license.
An inspector flagged our electrical. Our insurance broker is asking when it'll be fixed. Where do we start?
With a site walkthrough. We read the inspector's deficiency list, walk the property, photograph the panel and any flagged circuits, and quote the remediation against the exact line items on the report. Once the work is done we coordinate the ESA inspection so the signed sign-off can go straight to your broker — that's the document policy renewal usually hinges on.
Do you do preventative maintenance, or just break-fix? We'd rather not call you in a panic at 7pm.
Both. For multi-tenant landlords, restaurant groups and operators with mission-critical loads, we'll quote a scheduled preventative-maintenance scope — panel thermography, breaker exercising, lighting and emergency-lighting checks, GFCI testing — on a cadence that suits the property. The goal is to catch the failure on a Tuesday afternoon, not a Friday night.
Our building has three-phase 600V service and the last electrician wouldn't touch it. Are you set up for that?
Yes. Three-phase commercial service, distribution panels, sub-feeds for HVAC and rooftop units, and the lockout/tagout discipline that has to go with that work are part of normal commercial scope for us. Our chief electrician has run that level of work for 30+ years and we'll never put a residential-only crew on a commercial service.
If your situation looks like one of these, you're on the right page. Each row links to the part of the workflow we'll run for that scope — and what you'll have in writing before any crew rolls.
Office tenant fit-outs: floor boxes, dedicated workstation circuits, supplementary lighting, server-room cooling whips and the panel labelling your IT lead will quietly thank you for.
Dedicated circuit additions for high-draw equipment — espresso, point-of-sale, refrigeration, hand dryers, signage — done overnight so the storefront opens normally in the morning.
Kitchen panel remediation, hood-fan interlocks, GFCI protection on prep stations and the inspection sign-off you'll need before service goes back on.
Standing maintenance agreements for landlords and property managers — common-area lighting, parking lot poles, electrical-room housekeeping, tenant transitions.
Fluorescent-to-LED retrofits, occupancy sensors, dimming controls and emergency-lighting verification — quoted with payback and any utility rebate paperwork included.
Equipment-specific dedicated circuits, isolated ground requirements, after-hours commissioning so reception, exam rooms and patient records stay live during the workday.
Compliance walkthroughs against an existing deficiency report — remediation, permit, inspection coordination, and the stamped paperwork your broker needs in the file.
Service upgrades to three-phase, sub-panel additions, utility coordination, transformer/meter work, and the planned-outage scheduling that keeps the rest of the operation running.
Same workflow on a single dedicated circuit as on a full tenant fit-out — but every step is timed around when your property is in use, who needs to authorise the work, and what paperwork you'll need at handover.
We visit the property — often before or after business hours so we don't pull staff off the floor — and walk the panel, equipment room, and any flagged circuits with you or your facility lead. Photos, deficiency notes, and load assumptions all captured on the spot.
Back in writing within one to two business days. Itemised by line — labour, materials, after-hours premium (if applicable), permit, ESA inspection coordination. So your finance/operations lead can sign off without surprises and your landlord knows exactly what's getting touched.
We pick the work windows with you and the property manager. Lockout/tagout, panel isolation, customer-facing communications, and any temporary feeds get planned before the crew arrives — so opening hours are protected and the work doesn't stall halfway through.
Our team — not a subcontracted one — handles the work. Drop sheets down, common areas protected, panel labelling updated as circuits change, and a walk-around at handover so your facility lead knows where every new breaker, contactor and emergency disconnect lives.
We pull the permit, coordinate the Electrical Safety Authority inspection, and deliver the signed inspection report along with as-builts, panel photos and the warranty. That bundle is what your landlord, broker or insurer will ask for — we hand it over at closeout so you don't have to chase it.
Send us the address, the situation, and the property type. We'll come walk the space — usually outside your operating hours if it helps — and reply with a written, itemised commercial scope. No charge, no obligation, no crew at the door until you've approved the work in writing.
Serving Peel, Halton, Wellington & Dufferin · ECRA/ESA #7002360 · WSIB · ACP · Bilingual EN/FR
