Electrician in York
Electrician in York
Serving York
We're headquartered on McRoberts Avenue — York isn't a service area for us, it's the neighbourhood. Service calls, panel upgrades, and rewiring for the city's oldest housing stock.
Northcliffe Electric is based in York, minutes from Eglinton West, St. Clair West, and the Junction. That means shorter drives, faster service calls, and a crew that already knows what’s behind the walls on your street. Nearly half of York’s homes were built before 1961, and three quarters before 1981 — so we spend most of our days in exactly the kind of wiring your house has.
Dead outlets, tripping breakers, flickering lights — diagnosed properly, usually same week. We're minutes away.
Learn more →York's 1910s–30s houses are full of it. We replace it room by room without destroying plaster — and hand you the ESA paperwork your insurer wants.
Learn more →60-amp services and fuse panels are still common here. We upgrade to 100A or 200A with permits and Toronto Hydro coordination handled.
Learn more →Pot lights in lath-and-plaster ceilings without wrecking them — a York specialty.
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York has the city's highest share of homes split into two units. We handle subpanels, separate circuits, and interconnected alarms to code.
Learn more →Level 2 charging on older services — load-calculated first, so you know whether you need an upgrade before you buy.
Learn more →Buying a century home near Cedarvale or Weston? Know what's in the walls before you waive conditions.
Learn more →Burning smell, dead panel, sparking outlet — the emergency line is always on.
Learn more →York grew as a streetcar suburb between 1913 and 1930, then filled in with apartment blocks in the 1960s and 70s. Almost nothing here is new — only 3% of York’s homes were built after 2016.
Silverthorn, Oakwood Village, Humewood and Fairbank went up between roughly 1913 and 1930, when the Oakwood and St. Clair streetcars arrived. Expect knob-and-tube, cloth-covered wiring, ungrounded two-prong outlets and 60-amp services — sometimes all four in the same house.
Cedarvale, Mount Dennis and pockets of Weston filled in through the 40s and 50s. Usually 60 or 100-amp service with early NM cable — better than knob-and-tube, but rubber insulation from this era gets brittle and the panels are long past their service life.
Weston, Mount Dennis and Briar Hill-Belgravia gained high-rise blocks in the 60s and 70s — Weston is nearly 60% apartment towers. In-suite work here means aluminum-era branch wiring, tight panels, and building access rules we're used to navigating.
We’re not driving in from the 905. Our shop is on McRoberts Avenue, which means when your power goes out on a Tuesday night we’re a short drive away, not a scheduling problem. And because roughly 9% of York’s homes are flagged as needing major repairs — the highest rate of any Toronto district — we’ve built our business around doing old-house electrical properly: clean panels, labelled circuits, ESA filings on every permitted job, and drop sheets on your floors. Communication, quality of work, and leaving your home cleaner than we found it. That’s the whole pitch.
From Baby Point to Weston, and everywhere the Crosstown runs. See every area we cover on our service areas page.
Yes — our shop is on McRoberts Avenue, between Eglinton West and Rogers Road. We're one of the few electrical contractors actually headquartered in York rather than servicing it from out of town, which is why we can usually get to local service calls quickly.
Not always. Ontario's code isn't retroactive, and the ESA allows existing knob-and-tube to remain if it's on a 15-amp fuse or breaker, no outlets have been added to the original circuit, and the visible conductors are in good condition. The real pressure usually comes from insurers, many of whom won't write or renew a policy on an energized knob-and-tube home. We'll tell you honestly which situation you're in.
Yes, and it's most of what we do in York's older houses. Lath-and-plaster needs a different approach than drywall — proper hole saws, careful joist location, and fishing wire without opening up the whole ceiling. Done right, patching is minimal.
Most electrical work in Ontario has to be filed with the Electrical Safety Authority — new circuits, panel changes, EV chargers, rewiring. As an ESA/ECRA-licensed contractor (Licence #7014949) we file the notification and arrange the inspection on every job that needs one, and you get the certificate for your records.
Toronto Hydro — York's municipal utility was folded into Toronto Hydro at amalgamation in 1998. If your job needs the power isolated at the mast or meter, we coordinate that disconnect and reconnect with Toronto Hydro as part of the work.
We're around the corner. Straight answers, clear pricing, and a site left spotless.