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Elco Electric (1979) Ltd
About Elco Electric (1979) Ltd
One of the longest-established electrical contractors in the valley, trading in Chilliwack since 1979 and working both town and agricultural jobs.
Electrical work in Chilliwack divides more sharply than it does in most cities, and the division is worth understanding before phoning anyone. There is new residential, which for fifteen years has meant Promontory, the Eastern Hillsides and the Vedder subdivisions. There is service and rewiring in the older stock downtown and on Fairfield Island, much of it mid-century and none of it wired for the way a house gets used now. And there is agricultural and industrial work: barns, milking parlours, irrigation, three-phase supply, feed and grain equipment out through Greendale, Rosedale and Yarrow, and the plants in Village West and Cattermole. The third strand is specialist, and plenty of residential electricians will not touch it.
This contractor is recorded as working both the town and the agricultural side, and as having traded in Chilliwack since 1979, which puts it among the longest-running electrical firms in the valley. Chilliwack is the largest dairy producing area in British Columbia, with poultry and greenhouse growing behind it, so the farm strand of the work is a bigger proportion of the trade here than the population would suggest. A dairy operation with a fault in a parlour is not shopping on price; it wants someone who has seen the equipment before.
No address is published, which is normal enough for a trade that works at customers' properties rather than receiving them, and no website is recorded either, so the phone number above is the only route in. It is worth being specific at first contact: a panel upgrade in an old house, a service call on a farm and the wiring of a new build on a hillside lot are three different pieces of work, and availability for one says nothing about availability for another. Chilliwack counted 93,203 residents at the 2021 census and the City put the figure near 112,500 by 2025, so the trades here have not been short of work.
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