Etobicoke · Toronto Hydro service area
24/7 electrician for Etobicoke emergencies
Sparks at a Kingsway panel, water rising in an Alderwood basement suite, a dead circuit on a January night in Rexdale. We take emergency calls from all of Etobicoke, day and night.
Emergency in Etobicoke? Call (647) 930-2907 at any hour. Nights, weekends and holidays included.
Before anything else
Flames, smoke or sparking that won't stop: leave the building and dial 911. A wire lying on the road, a lawn or a fence: stay at least 10 metres back and report it to Toronto Hydro's emergency line. When everyone is safe, phone us.
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Etobicoke stretches from the lake to Steeles, and its emergencies change with the housing. In the Kingsway, Humber Valley Village and Princess-Rosethorn, brick homes from the 1930s and 1940s hide splices and junctions from several decades of updates. A loose one can heat up for years before it finally smells.
South of the Gardiner, post-war bungalows in Alderwood, Long Branch and New Toronto often run basement suites. Their panels were never meant for two households. Further north, 1960s split-levels in Markland Wood, Thistletown and Rexdale still have original breakers and devices that are wearing out.
Whatever the house, the call goes the same way. You tell us what you can see, hear or smell. We tell you what to switch off and whether it's safe to stay put. Then a licensed electrician comes out to make it safe.
Toronto Hydro or us
Who to phone first
A few seconds of checking at the window can save you a call-out you didn't need.
| What you notice | Call first | Where we come in |
|---|---|---|
| Your street and the next one are dark | Toronto Hydro | Not needed unless your own equipment is damaged |
| Only your house is out, neighbours are lit | Us | We test the main breaker, meter base and service connections |
| A wire is down in the yard or on the road | Toronto Hydro, or 911 if it's sparking | Once the line is safe, we repair the mast and meter base on your wall |
| Lights swing very bright, then dim | Us | We check for a lost neutral and bring in Toronto Hydro if the fault is on their side |
| A lakeshore condo suite is out, the floor isn't | Us | We work on the suite panel; the building handles common systems |
Creeks, ravines and storms
Flooded basements and wet circuits
The Humber River, Mimico Creek and Etobicoke Creek all cut through the borough, and plenty of streets sit on lower ground near them. A summer cloudburst can overwhelm a sump pump or back up a floor drain in an hour. That's how water reaches baseboard heaters, outlets near the floor and, in the worst cases, the panel.
If you can reach the panel from a dry spot, switch off the basement breakers. If the floor between you and the panel is wet, leave it. We cut power to the affected circuits from a safe position, then dry, test and replace what the water touched before anything is re-energized.
Old trees along those same ravines bring down branches in wind and ice. Where a house is still fed overhead, that can bend the service mast or tear the meter base off the brick.
Hot or burning smell
From an outlet, a switch plate or the panel itself. Switch off and call.
Breaker trips the instant you reset it
A short or ground fault. Stop resetting it.
Furnace or heaters dead in winter
A failed heating circuit when it's freezing outside is urgent.
Buzzing or crackling at the panel
Often a loose or arcing connection behind the cover.
Once you call
How we handle an Etobicoke emergency
On the phone
We ask what happened and tell you which breaker to turn off, if any.
On site
The fault is found and isolated so the rest of the house can keep power.
The repair
You hear what failed and what the permanent fix will cost before it starts.
Permit and utility
If the work needs ESA, we file it. If the service was cut, we arrange Toronto Hydro's reconnection.
After the night is over
Fixing the reason it happened
Many Etobicoke emergencies trace back to a service that is simply too small or too old for the house today. If that's what we find, we'll say so after the urgent repair is done, never as a condition of it. A panel upgrade in Etobicoke is the usual answer for a fused or overloaded service.
If storm outages keep stopping your sump pump, a standby generator for an Etobicoke home keeps it running when the street goes dark. For everything else we do across the borough, see our Etobicoke electrician page.
Not urgent?
Some faults can wait for daylight
A single outlet that stopped working, or a light that won't come on, is usually fine until a weekday visit. Heat, smoke, sparks or water near wiring are never in that group.
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24/7 emergency electrician in Etobicoke: questions
Do you offer 24/7 emergency service?
Yes. For an electrical emergency call (647) 930-2907 any time, day or night. If you see smoke or fire, leave the house and call 911 first. If a power line is down, stay well back and call your hydro utility's emergency line.
What changes the cost of an emergency call in Etobicoke?
Mostly four things: the time of day, what failed and the parts to fix it. The fourth is whether the repair needs an ESA permit and a Toronto Hydro reconnection. Making the fault safe comes first. You hear the price of the permanent repair before we start it.
My Mimico condo suite lost power but the hallway is lit. Who do I call?
Check your suite panel first: one tripped main or breaker is common. If it won't reset, or it trips again, call us for the suite side. If several suites are dark, tell building security or management, because risers and the electrical room belong to the corporation.
Water came into my basement during a storm. Can I turn the power back on?
Not until wet outlets, heaters and wiring have been checked. Water can leave a hidden path to ground that trips breakers or gives a shock later. Leave those circuits off, and let us test them dry before anything is switched back on.
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