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Outlet & Switch Repair in North Vancouver

New circuits, more outlets, pot lights, and rewiring on houses that never had enough of any of it.

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Price
$150–$350 per pot light retrofitted into a finished ceiling
Google rating
5.0
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Home wiring and rewiring, added circuits, outlets and switches, and indoor and outdoor lighting.

What people worry about, and how the call actually goes

  • 01

    The look

    When nobody picks up

  • 02

    The number

    When a part gets swapped and nothing gets explained

  • 03

    The permit

    When the bill is the first number you hear

What to check, and what to ask

General guidance for homeowners, not specific to your system — worth knowing before you book anyone, including us.

  1. One dead outlet is often a tripped GFCI somewhere else

    Bathroom, garage, outdoor and kitchen outlets are frequently protected by one GFCI upstream. The dead outlet may be several rooms from the one with the buttons on it.

  2. An outlet that only works when a wall switch is on is wired that way on purpose

    Half-switched outlets are common in living rooms and bedrooms, meant for a lamp. Before calling it a fault, try every switch in the room.

  3. A faceplate that is warm, or a plug that feels loose, is a real signal

    Warmth, buzzing, browning around a slot or a plug that will not stay in are all worth acting on. They are among the few electrical symptoms that get worse quietly.

  4. Ask what the replacement is, not just that it will be replaced

    Whether the location calls for GFCI or tamper-resistant protection is decided by where it is, not by preference. It is a fair question, and it should have a specific answer.

Try these first

  1. 1. Test the outlet with something you know works

    A phone charger or a lamp that is working elsewhere in the house. It sounds obvious and it settles the question of whether the outlet or the appliance is the problem.

  2. 2. Try every switch in the room

    Many living-room and bedroom outlets are half-controlled by a wall switch, on purpose, for a lamp. Flip each switch and try the outlet again before calling it dead.

  3. 3. Find the nearest GFCI and press RESET

    Check the bathroom, garage, kitchen counter and outdoor outlets for TEST and RESET buttons. One GFCI can feed several other outlets, including in other rooms. Press the button, nothing else.

  4. 4. Check the breaker panel for a tripped breaker

    Look for one sitting between on and off. Reset it once. If it goes again, leave it off — that is the circuit telling you something rather than misbehaving.

  5. 5. Note whether it is one outlet or several

    Try the other outlets in the room and the one on the other side of the same wall. One dead outlet and a dead run of outlets are two different jobs.

A Two Lions electrician on a step ladder setting a pendant fixture in a kitchen under renovation — their own photograph.
Two Lions's own photo, from a job in North Vancouver.

Before you call

What do pot lights cost?
Retrofitting into an existing finished ceiling runs about $150 to $350 a fixture, and the spread is mostly about access — an attic above is cheap, a flat roof or a ceiling with a bedroom on top is not. In new construction or an open ceiling it drops to roughly $100 to $150. Doing six at once costs less per light than doing two, because most of the cost is getting set up and getting back out.
Is rewiring as disruptive as it sounds?
Less than people expect, and it depends almost entirely on access. Their own site says most rewiring projects finish within a few days and that they plan around minimising disruption. A whole-home rewire on a 1950s to 1970s North Shore house is real money — roughly $18,000 to $32,000 on a 2,000 square foot house — so it is usually staged rather than done in one hit, and a renovation is the cheapest time to do the rooms you are already opening.
Can you add outlets without tearing the walls open?
Usually. Most added outlets are fished from an existing circuit or from a nearby junction with minimal opening, and the openings that are needed are small and patchable. What decides it is what is above and below the room, and whether the existing circuit has any capacity left to give — which is a thing to check before adding, not after.
Can you wire for smart switches and dimmers in an old house?
Usually, and the thing that stops it is almost always a missing neutral at the switch box, which is common in pre-1980s wiring. There are devices that work without one and there are situations where fishing a neutral is the right answer. Two Lions' own site names Lutron, Nest and Ecobee as the platforms they integrate, and says they retrofit into older homes.
Do you do commercial work as well?
Yes — office and retail fit-outs, energy-efficient lighting retrofits, standby generators and transfer switches, and scheduled maintenance contracts for property managers, with documentation after each visit for insurance and code purposes. Their own site says they work with businesses, offices, retail spaces and multi-unit properties, and that maintenance clients get priority scheduling on emergencies.

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Address
6-801 1st Street West, North Vancouver, BC
Service Area
North Vancouver · West Vancouver · Vancouver · Burnaby · New Westminster · Port Moody · Coquitlam
Hours
Monday–Saturday, 7:00 am – 7:00 pm. Sunday closed.
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