Canada

Timing

Send by 20:00 your local time, ready by 07:00. Taiwan is 16 hours ahead of Vancouver and 13 ahead of Toronto.

What we price against

• Electrical: the Canadian Electrical Code (CSA C22.1) as adopted provincially, with provincial amendments: Ontario’s OESC and ESA inspection fees, BC’s Technical Safety BC permits, Alberta’s STANDATA. We price the items the code drives: AFCI on bedroom and most living-area circuits, GFCI in wet areas, tamper-resistant devices, 200 A service for EV-ready builds, bonding.
• Plumbing: the National Plumbing Code as adopted, with the BC Plumbing Code and Ontario Building Code Part 7 differences where they matter (backwater valves, hot water temperature control, venting).
• Permits: municipal building, plumbing and electrical permit fees as published, plus the inspection visits in labor.

Suppliers we check

Home Depot Canada, RONA, Canadian Tire and Home Hardware for retail; Wolseley, EMCO, Nedco, Guillevin, Gescan, Westburne and Torbram for trade pricing; local supply houses on request. Account discounts applied when you tell us.

Units, tax and format

Metric and imperial as the trade actually uses them: lumber and tile in feet and inches, wire in AWG, pipe in nominal inches, floor areas in square feet with metres on request. GST, HST or GST+PST by province, each as its own line. Estimates match the Jobber, Joist or Excel layouts Canadian customers expect, with the WorkSafeBC or WSIB and insurance notes if you want them.

Chinese-speaking contractors

Richmond, Burnaby and Surrey in the Lower Mainland; Markham, Scarborough and Richmond Hill in the GTA; Calgary and Montreal. Cantonese and Mandarin both; many of our Vancouver contractors send jobs by WeChat voice message.

Typical jobs

Bathroom and kitchen renovations, basement suites and laneway houses, panel upgrades for EV chargers and heat pumps, repipes of poly-B, water heater and tankless replacements, furnace-to-heat-pump conversions. See the sample bathroom renovation.