Dead outlets and no power
We trace the circuit, find the loose connection or failed breaker, and fix it on the same visit if the part is on the truck.
from $140 for the first hour
Hartwell Electric
Electrician · around Orillia
Breaker keeps tripping? We can usually come today.
I'm Dave Hartwell. I've been wiring and fixing houses around Orillia since 2003, and I answer my own phone. Tell me what's happening and I'll tell you straight whether it needs someone today or whether it can wait until next week.
We answer the phone ourselves. Missed you? We call back the same day.
- Licensed and insured
- We pull the permits ourselves
- Written price before we start
- Boots off, drop sheets down
22 yrs In Simcoe County
ESA Licensed and insured
Same day Most no-power calls
What we do
Panel upgrades
Replacing a 60 or 100 amp panel with a 200 amp service, permit pulled and ESA inspection booked, usually done in one day.
free quote
EV charger installs
Level 2 charger wired back to your panel and mounted where you actually park, after we check your service can carry it.
free quote
Breakers that keep tripping
Almost always one overloaded circuit or one failed part, and we tell you which it is and what it costs before we start.
Older house wiring
Knob and tube, aluminum, ungrounded plugs: we walk the house with you and say what is genuinely unsafe and what can wait a year.
Lights, fans and outdoor plugs
Pot lights, bathroom fans vented outside instead of into the attic, and exterior receptacles that survive a Simcoe winter.
Towns we cover
- Orillia
- Oro-Medonte
- Coldwater and Warminster
- Severn and Washago
- Ramara and Brechin
- North end of Barrie
- Hawkestone and Shanty Bay
Past Gravenhurst or south of Barrie there is a small travel charge, and we say so on the phone first.
What people say
Half our kitchen went dead on a Sunday night and Dave had it running by Monday lunch. It was a burnt wire behind the dishwasher plug.
I called about a full panel replacement and he told me I did not need one yet. He swapped two breakers and charged me for the hour.
Charger install took one morning. He shifted the box over a foot so I can still wheel the mower past it, which I notice every single week.
Not sure if it can wait?
Call and describe what you're seeing, smelling or hearing. If it's fine until next week I'll tell you, and if it isn't, I'll tell you that too.
Call us now (705) 555-0118