Wamsley Electrical

Wamsley
Electrical Services

Port Dover, Ontario Established 2001 Norfolk County

Houses, buildings, boats, and the light that goes in all three.

Chapter one

It started with one van and one electrician.

Mike Wamsley went out on his own in 2001. Before that he had spent years on power generation, water treatment and marine industrial work, some of it a long way from Lake Erie.

Today the company is his and his two sons', RJ and Zach, with a crew of seven certified electricians working out of Port Dover. The work has moved upmarket over twenty-five years, into custom homes, lighting control and automation, but the service call has never gone away. Someone still answers the phone when a breaker will not reset.

2001

Year Mike started, on his own

7

Certified electricians today

The Wamsley crew sitting on the front steps of a house with two dogs.
The crew, and the two who come to work anyway. Port Dover.
A timber frame great room with an exposed truss roof and a large circular chandelier over a staircase.
A timber frame great room. The chandelier is the easy part. Getting a circuit to the apex of that truss is not.

Chapter two

Most of the work is somebody's house.

New builds, gut renovations, rewires, and the kitchen that needs six more circuits than the panel has room for. Hundreds of them since 2001, from a single bathroom to houses that take a year.

  • Repairs and troubleshooting
  • New construction and custom homes
  • Renovations and rewires
  • Panel upgrades
  • Lighting installations
  • Landscape lighting
  • Standby generator installation
  • EV chargers
  • Pool and spa wiring

More on residential work

Chapter three

And the ones nobody lives in.

Retail units, restaurants, fit-outs and the maintenance afterwards. A restaurant that loses power loses the night's covers, so commercial work is mostly about how fast someone can get there and how well the last person labelled the panel.

  • Emergency service calls and troubleshooting
  • Service upgrades
  • LED lighting upgrades
  • New construction and renovations
  • Automatic backup generator systems
  • EV charging stations

More on commercial work

A mechanical room wall with a row of grey electrical panels, conduit runs and a manifold.
A plant room mid fit-out. Everything on this wall is labelled before anyone leaves.

Chapter four

Then there is the part nobody expects.

Wamsley wires boats. Working ones.

The fishing tug Harry Purvis under way on Lake Erie, throwing a bow wave.
The Harry Purvis, working out of Port Dover. A tug that cannot start is a day's catch nobody lands.

Mike's marine industrial background is why this division exists. It covers commercial fleets, the Lake Erie fishing tugs, and private vessels: switchboards and AC/DC distribution, navigation and deck lighting, shore power, generators, safety and emergency systems, and Megger reporting when the insulation needs proving rather than guessing.

More on marine work

  • New installation design: wiring, panels, controls
  • Troubleshooting and repairs
  • Navigation and deck lighting
  • Power distribution, AC/DC, switchboards
  • Megger reporting
  • Generator installation, service, repair
  • Shore power installation and repairs
  • Safety and emergency systems

Chapter five

February, two in the morning, and the road is out.

A standby generator is the one thing on this page you buy hoping never to think about again. Sizing it properly, designing the system, running the gas line and pulling the permits are all part of it, and all of it happens before the first outage, not during one.

Briggs & Stratton and Generac. There is a maintenance list every autumn, which is the right time to get on it.

More on backup power

A standby generator on a concrete pad beside a rural house, with a meter and transfer switch mounted on a pole.
Generator, pad, transfer switch. Installed in daylight so it works in the dark.

Chapter six

A house is a different building after dark.

This is the part of the trade Wamsley moved toward: whole home lighting control, motorised shades, audio through the house, the network behind all of it. Certified with Lutron Pro for Caseta and RadioRa 3, with Google Nest Pro, and with Brilliant.

A hallway lit only by a warm strip of cove lighting running up the wall.
Cove light, no fixture in sight
A coffered ceiling with each recessed panel edge lit, and a crystal chandelier alongside a tall window.
Nine coffers, nine circuits
Looking up into a domed ceiling with a starburst chandelier at its centre.
A dome, lit from its own rim
A brick house at night with landscape uplighting on a birch tree and washes of light along the eaves.
Outside, which is where the neighbours see it

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More on lighting control and smart home

Chapter seven

Norfolk County, and as far as the job is worth driving.

Based at 926 St George St in Port Dover, working across Norfolk County and the surrounding area. Local enough that the van is often already nearby, which on a service call is most of what matters.

Fully licensed and insured.

A large timber frame house at dusk with warm light coming through tall windows and under the eaves.
Dusk, Norfolk County. The exterior lighting is on a timeclock, not a switch.

Chapter eight

Twenty five years of turning up.

4.9

Average of 33 Google reviews. Read them all on Google

"Amazing service. When our food truck exhaust fan quit working just an hour before having to be open for a large private event, RJ took my call immediately and had Zach on site…"

Amie Ferris ★★★★★ 2026-07-30

"I cannot recommend Wamsley Electric enough, I called at 10am they arrived same day. Friendly, professional and fixed the issue in an hour . Fair pricing, excellent service"

Elinor Cracknell ★★★★★ 2026-06-24

"Showed up when they said they would and made virtually no mess while installing top lighting and under cabinet lighting plus 11 Pot lights and a couple of new switches. Finished…"

Tony Wark ★★★★★ 2026-06-08

"Been using Wamsley for about 4 yrs now. Great workmanship, very reasonable price and quality service. They are always my go-to for any electrical services."

Marsha Bailey-Reid ★★★★★ 2026-06-18

"Great team! On time, on budget , top quality job. RJ and his team are skilled, organized and passionate about serving their customers needs at fair market rates ."

Gary Ball ★★★★★ 2026-04-29

"I had a surprise need for an electrical repair. Called at 9:00 am on the Friday before Christmas, expected to get an answering machine, but they picked up right away and there was…"