We recently completed a large scale reno on this older home, bringing it up to date with a great new lighting plan throughout. Once dark and dingy, this now perfectly lit kitchen is an inviting space to create some delicious comfort food on these cold wintery nights. For all your electrical needs Wicks Electric delivers, on time, on budget with 100% client satisfaction.
We are excited to be nominated for Best Employer! We have a great team environment where everyone is supported and have a lot of fun too. We hope everyone will take a moment to vote for us! http://sbbcawards.ca/award/employer/wicks-electrical-inc/
We completed this Lions Bay renovation this week. It was a pleasure to work on and we loved this whimsical fixture! We upgraded the electrical throughout the entire home with all new fixtures, adding new plugs and switches throughout. On time, on budget and done to perfection.
Have a safe and spooky Halloween and watch out for the little ones trick or treating tonight. If your house looks still haunted after halloween is over consider upgrading your lighting. The experts here at Wicks can help you brighten up your living space with great suggestions about the various styles and types of lighting available to bring your home back from the dark side.
Adam straps on a belt to help out late one evening to get a complicated Tesla installation done. Rested and rejuvenated from a 3 week European adventure he is ready and raring to go! We are very busy with lots of exciting projects including brand new homes, commercial spaces, and large scale renos. Welcome back Adam! We are all glad to have you home and lighting the way!
We are in the midst of a large scale renovation at this beautiful West Van home. In addition to updating the entire electrical system we are modernizing the lighting throughout the house. This job is a pleasure to work on and the view is spectacular!
We are putting the final touches on the electrical at Qoola’s newest location at the brand new Airport Mall in Richmond. We will have interior pictures soon. In addition to delicious and healthy, organic, non GMO yogurt with a dazzling choice of toppings, they also make amazing smoothies, waffle cones and other yummy treats!.Drop in to any of their locations and taste the goodness! It’s been a pleasure working with these great folks!
All of us at Wicks Electric want to remind our friends that storm season is upon us. The arrival of October brings heavy rain, strong winds and power outages. We are apparently in for “the storm of the decade” over the next few days. Please ensure you have batteries for flashlights, extra blankets, and if you don’t have surge protectors on your computer, TV and other equipment unplug them until full power is restored. And although they seem romantic during outages, please don’t use candles! More fires are caused by unattended candles than everything else combined. If you have issues with electrical problems after the storm, Wicks Electrical will be here to help!
Mark: Hi it’s Mark from Top Local, we’re here with Jesse Ramage subbing for Adam Wicks of Wicks Electric talking about a massive LED retrofit project. How’re you doing Jesse?
Jesse: Good, how are you Mark?
Mark: Good. So Bulldog Packaging wanted to swap out some lights, why did they want to do that?
Jesse: Energy savings mostly. They have around 500 lights in their factory so swapping them all to LED’s is a huge energy savings. So we went ahead and did that for them.
Mark: So let’s talk, you’ve got some pictures, tell us about, tell us the story, what was the project like? You worked on it.
Jesse: I do, yeah, it was a cool project. We’re in their factory, they make plastic bags and different types of packaging, it’s a factory that runs 24/7, so scheduling with the staff and everything in Bulldog was tough at times. We pulled some late shifts, mostly we were working night shifts there because that’s when it’s the quietest. Yeah, we changed out, as you can see, we changed out, these are all high bays, so we swapped out, they had mercury lights in their high bays, so we swapped them all out to LED’s. And these are really cool, actually if you walk down this hallway all the lights will be dim if there’s no one in there and as you walk down they get brighter as you get closer to them. They really save a lot of energy because they’re hardly even on if you’re not in there so, yeah, couple more photos here. We also did linear lights. These are basically swapping out normal fluorescent light that you would see everywhere nowadays. These are a kind of LED version of them, pretty cool. This is a tower here, safety was a huge concern here obviously, there’s machines running 24/7 and we’re working above them and around them the whole time, so you always have to be aware of what you’re doing, what you’re holding on to, you couldn’t drop any screws. If you dropped a screw on this tower it’s going to fall into their machine that’s making the bag and they have to shut down the whole machine until they found that one screw. So they were were pretty concerned about that. So we took every safety precaution we could to make sure obviously nothing bad was going to happen. All the lights were really high also, so we had lifts in there, scissor lifts and booms, a lot of lights were difficult to get to, so that was a challenge. But in the end we got it all done and the customer was extremely happy with the planning and how the job all turned out, obviously the energy savings are really good.
Jesse: These lights last a lot longer than a normal high bay light would last and getting up to them, they’re were 30 feet in the air, you don’t want staff having to change those all the time so these are going to last a lot longer, so safety there, no has to get up on a ladder to do it, they’re saving energy. They’re just an all around way better option.
Mark: Great, so if you’re looking for an electrical company that can do LED retrofit while you’re in operation, these guys have hardcore experience in dealing with extremely difficult situations and getting the job done, on time, on budget and in a way that doesn’t effect your operations. Wicks Electric, highest rated electrical company in Vancouver – give them a call 604-765-8439 or check out their website wickselectric.ca. Thanks Jesse
Jesse: Thanks
Mark: Hi, it’s Mark from Top Local we’re here with Jesse Ramage of Wicks Electric, he’s subbing in for Adam Wicks who’s off holidaying in Amsterdam getting into all kinds of trouble, how’re you doing Jesse?
Jesse: Good, how are you Mark?
Mark: Good, we’re going to talk about the Bar None Nightclub electrical project. What was going on with this project?
Jesse: Yeah, so Bar None is a nightclub here in the city, it was a pretty big renovation, we did quite a bit of lighting, like a big lighting upgrade. I’m going to show you some photos here. So you can see quite a few pendants, this is the entrance, we did lots of pendants and a backlit LED panel here. The layout for the whole place is pretty tedious to layout and quite a strict deadline so the guys worked long hours on this one. A couple guys were there until two in the morning day before opening trying to get this one done. Another photo here, we had over 300 of these little pendants hanging in here which is quite a tedious little job and all of the benches you can see under lit, LED benches. So it turned out really nice. The customer is quite happy. They called us back for a couple things here and there from a tripped breaker to one of the bulbs isn’t working anymore and so they were calling us back and they’re happy and everything’s good. It’s a packed place on the weekends so everyone gets to see the nice lighting and everything that we did and so, it’s a pretty cool job.
Mark: so if you’ve got a renovation project coming up for electrical, the guys to call in Vancouver are Wicks Electric. You can reach them at 604-765-8439 or you can check out their website wickselectric.ca. Thanks Jesse
Jesse: Thanks Mark.
