PES / Prestige Electrical Services

I purchased a new Chamberlain garage door from Canadian Tire and took the optional installation they offer using Quickcontractors. The installer I got was Ryan from PES. I cannot say enough good about him. He was courteous, friendly, knowledgeable, professional and efficient. When I asked him to move the wall control from where he had put it to a slightly different location, the response was an immediate "Sure, no problem". At the end, he cleaned the job site and helped me set the code for the keypad and remotes. If he is representative of PES in general, I highly recommend their services.

Peter came by to move some electrical outlets for us. He was punctual, respectable and got the job done. As requested, he wore a mask while working on our house due to COVID. I also found the pricing to be quite reasonable.

I do my own DIYs around the house but don't want to try my hand at electrical. As I do more DIYs I will be asking Peter to come back for any electrical work I might need.

We live in a house that doesn't have main ceiling lights. We wanted to install 3 overhead ceiling fans upstairs, and one main light in a playroom on the main level. We'd used these guys before, and liked them. They gave us the quote, and we hired them. They came on time, were friendly (there were 2 guys), and got the job done. We were happy, and would use them again. Two minor points:
- when adding a switch upstairs, the reciprocating saw they used came through the other side, so we have a little patch work to do. He told us before doing that, that it was possible because of some issues. So, we can't blame them.
- we had another switch that needed a quick rewire, so the guy said he could do that, but wouldn't charge us (it literally was a 5 minute job). When we got the invoice later, there was an extra charge for that work. We were too busy to call them, and get it removed, but didn't appreciate it.

We moved into a house a few years ago, and there was this one living area where the light switch controlled both an overhead light and some of the electrical outlets. It was done in such a way that made no sense. We wanted the switch to simply control the overhead light and the outlets to be always powered.

The guy arrived on time (I forget his name). We explained the problem, and he said, "This could be a 10 minute job - I think they did the marettes wrong. That would be nice. I feared they'd have to run some additional wiring, etc. In the end, he was right - added a nice dimmer switch. When we mentioned that we had another electrician coming to quote on the job, he knew who it was - even called her and said he'd already done the job (they were obviously friends).

$100 for 20 minutes sounds expensive, but I'm sure there was a minimum fee ...