Light fixture installation in Markham runs into a lot of freehold townhomes. Cornell, Berczy, Wismer and Greensborough hold rows of narrow townhomes with nine-foot main floors, and the living rooms are longer than they are wide, which changes what fits above them.
I swap chandeliers, pendants, flush mounts, vanity lights and ceiling fans on existing circuits, and I do a lot of dimmer and smart switch work here as well. Give me the list and I will work through the house in one go.
Townhome switch banks in Markham are usually three or four devices in one box, often with three-way switching between the main floor and the stairs. Smart switches are deeper and wider than the toggles they replace, so four of them rarely fit in the original box, and the traveller wiring has to be sorted out before anything is buttoned up. On the plus side these houses are new enough to have a neutral at the switch, which is exactly what smart switches need.
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Sunday: By appointment
Before anything comes down I confirm the power is off at the breaker and dead at the terminals, then look at the box itself: how it is fastened, whether a ground is present, and what weight it was built to carry.
If a fan or a heavy chandelier is going up, a fan-rated box or a brace bar between the joists goes in first, fed through the existing hole so your ceiling stays intact and no patching is needed afterwards.
Conductors are stripped clean and joined with correctly sized connectors, the ground lead is fixed to the ground screw in the box, and the wiring is folded back so nothing is pinched when the canopy is drawn up tight.
Power back on, the fixture is run through every setting, dimmers get their low-end trim set with your bulbs in place, a fan is tested at all speeds and balanced if it moves, and the packaging leaves with me.
Height and access drive most of the cost here. A vanity light at chest height is straightforward work. A chandelier over an open stairwell needs staging, careful handling and more time on site. Adding a fan-rated box or a brace bar to a ceiling that never had one takes longer than hanging a fixture where the support is already correct. Quantity helps, since fixtures done in the same visit share a single setup. Fixtures and dimmers can be supplied by you or by me with receipts, and the price is agreed first.
Nothing starts before the price is agreed. Send a photo or two with your request and I can usually quote without a site visit.
In houses built from the late nineties onward, usually yes, because there is a neutral wire in the switch box and that is what these devices run on. The real problem is space. A bank of four smart switches takes up more room than four toggles, so I sometimes fit a deeper box or a slim model. Send me a photo with the plate off and I will confirm.
Tell me what needs fixing and get a free, no-obligation quote — I usually reply within one business day.