Electrician in Kitchener

Kitchener is home for us. Our shop is at 20 Steckle Place, Unit 6, and most of our working days start and finish inside the city limits. Jason and Wendy Einwechter have run the business from here for more than a decade, so when a Kitchener homeowner calls about flickering lights or a panel with no spare spaces, there's a good chance we've already worked on a house much like theirs.

A city with two very different housing stocks

Kitchener was called Berlin until 1916, and the streets laid out in that era still form the heart of the city. Around Victoria Park, the city's first park and its first heritage conservation district, you'll find Victorian and early twentieth-century houses on narrow lots. Cherry Park, Mount Hope–Breithaupt, Central Frederick and the blocks near the Civic Centre carry a similar mix of older brick homes, most of them renovated a piece at a time over many decades.

Drive south and the picture changes. Doon South, Huron Park and Williamsburg filled in much more recently, with two-storey houses and townhouses that came with breaker panels and modern cable from day one. Those homes rarely need rewiring. What they need is capacity: a charger in the garage, a finished basement, a hot tub on the deck.

What turns up behind older Kitchener walls

• Knob-and-tube wiring in houses built before the Second World War, sometimes still live in an attic or a wall nobody has opened. Our knob-and-tube rewiring page explains how we replace it room by room.
• Small services: 60 and 100 amp panels that were fine for a 1950s kitchen and struggle once central air, an induction range and an electric car arrive together.
• Two-prong, ungrounded outlets and circuits extended by several past owners, each with their own ideas.
• Fuse panels that home inspectors and insurers often flag when a house changes hands.

A fixer-upper in the older core is one of our most familiar Kitchener projects: rewire it, put in a new panel, and add the smart home pieces while the walls are open. One couple described it this way:

Jason Einwechter and his team were amazing! My husband and I recently bought a 'fixer upper' and Einwechter Electric handled all of the rewiring, new panel install, and smart home upgrades. Professional, tidy, and on time every day. Highly recommend. (L and R, Kitchener)

How a panel upgrade runs on Enova's system

1. We look at the existing panel, meter base and mast, and add up the loads you're planning for. The 100 amp vs 200 amp guide shows how that sizing works.
2. We file the notification with the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) before any work begins.
3. Enova Power disconnects the service on a booked date. Everything past the point where the utility's wires meet your house belongs to the homeowner, which is why the mast, meter base and panel are our job, not Enova's.
4. We install the new equipment, an ESA inspector reviews it, and Enova reconnects once ESA has approved the work.

We book the disconnect ahead of time, so you know which day the house will be without power and can plan around it. More detail is on our panel upgrades page.

South-end subdivisions: adding, not replacing

In Doon South, Huron Park and Williamsburg, the calls are mostly about adding something new. A Level 2 EV charger means a dedicated 240-volt circuit and, often, a load calculation to show the panel can carry it. Basement finishes bring pot lights, bedroom circuits and smoke alarm wiring. Backyards bring hot tubs, which need their own circuit and protection. Garages in these neighbourhoods are usually attached and close to the panel, which keeps that work tidy.

Shops, offices and plants

Kitchener's business parks keep our commercial and industrial crews busy too: LED retrofits in warehouses, tenant fit-outs in offices and plazas, and machine moves where we disconnect equipment, relocate it and reconnect it on the new line. We also build custom control panels with laser-engraved labels. See industrial electrical services for the full list.

Getting us out to your place

We're open Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, with Saturdays by appointment. Call 519-591-1442 or request a free quote and tell us your neighbourhood and what you're planning. We usually reply within one business day.