Local knowledge, island standards.
Metchosin homes tend to be older, larger and rural — ranchers and farmhouses on acreage, many still on electric resistance, oil, or propane. Conversions here are rebate-rich: oil-to-heat-pump runs $10,000–$16,000 income-qualified, propane conversions follow the gas table up to $16,000, and electric-baseboard homes get $4,000 at any income.
Rural service is electrical-heavy work, and that's our advantage: our own licensed electricians handle 200A service upgrades (rebated up to $5,000 on qualifying conversions), shop sub-panels, EV chargers and generator transfer switches in the same project as the heat pump — one crew, one schedule, one accountable company.
We size every system with a CSA F280 calculation — which matters in Metchosin's mix of big footprints, vaulted additions, and drafty heritage farmhouses where rule-of-thumb quotes get it badly wrong.