Most electrical companies are a phone number and a logo. Apollo Electric is a Master Electrician who answers his own phone. That distinction matters more than any marketing line on this page, because it decides who actually turns up at your panel and who is accountable for the work afterwards.

Who Runs the Company

Zvonko Lipovac is the owner and Master Electrician. He is listed as the key principal of the business, holds the Master Electrician designation on record, and is tied to the 83 Ferndale Ave address in the Hamilton business directories. The company has traded from that address for the better part of three decades.

A Master Electrician is not the same thing as a licensed electrician, and the difference is worth understanding before you hire anyone. A Certificate of Qualification makes someone an electrician. A Master Electrician designation is what allows a person to be the qualified individual behind an electrical contractor licence, which is the licence a company needs before it can legally take money for electrical work in Ontario. When you call Apollo Electric, that qualified individual is the person on the phone, not a name filed with a regulator and never seen again.

This is also why the technical guidance published on this site is signed. Where a page gives advice about panels, wiring or safety, it carries a line naming who reviewed it. Anonymous electrical advice on the internet is worth what you paid for it.

Why Do Hamilton Homeowners Choose Apollo Electric?

Homeowners choose Apollo Electric for three reasons that show up repeatedly in customer feedback: the owner attends the work himself, the diagnosis is explained rather than announced, and the price is stated before the job starts rather than after it finishes.

The explaining part is not a nicety. Electrical faults are invisible. When someone tells you a circuit needs work and cannot say why in plain language, you have no way to judge whether the quote is fair or whether the work is needed at all. Apollo Electric works the other way round: you get told which conductor failed, what caused it, and what the options are, including the option to do nothing yet.

Apollo Electric has also been selected by ThreeBestRated as one of the top three electricians in Hamilton, an assessment based on customer reviews, ratings, trust and satisfaction rather than on advertising spend. Independent feedback is collected on our reviews page.

All work carries a satisfaction guarantee, with a lifetime warranty on select parts and components. That warranty is on the parts and components it names, not on every item in every job, and Apollo Electric will tell you which is which at quote time rather than leaving you to find out later.

What Apollo Electric Is Licensed and Insured to Do

Three separate credentials sit behind the work, and they do different jobs. Confusing them is the most common way a homeowner ends up hiring someone who is not covered.

Apollo Electric is also fully licensed and bonded. The reasoning behind checking all of this before you hire anyone is set out at greater length on our guide to hiring a licensed electrician in Hamilton. Verify the number rather than taking it on trust, including ours.

The Service Area, and Why the List Stops Where It Does

Apollo Electric serves Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster, Waterdown, Stoney Creek, Grimsby, Burlington, Oakville, Milton, Cambridge, Kitchener-Waterloo and surrounding areas including the Greater Toronto Area.

The list stops there for a practical reason rather than a marketing one. An electrical contractor working outside a reasonable radius cannot get back to you quickly when something fails on a Sunday, and cannot hold a working relationship with the local distributor. Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster and Stoney Creek are served by Alectra Utilities. Burlington is served by Burlington Hydro. Knowing which distributor covers an address, and which side of the connection point a fault sits on, is half the work on an outage call.

Thirty years in one city also means thirty years inside its housing stock, and Hamilton's is unusually mixed. Durand and Corktown carry pre-1950 homes with knob and tube still buried behind later renovations. East Hamilton and Stoney Creek are dense with 1960s and 1970s builds wired in aluminum, where terminations loosen over decades.

Mountain bungalows built on 100 amp services are now carrying heat pumps, EV chargers and finished basements. Ancaster village and the older Aldershot pockets of Burlington show the same pattern again. Knowing which of those a street belongs to before knocking on the door is not something a contractor picks up from a job board, and it is the reason a quote here tends to match the invoice.

If you are just outside the list, call anyway. It is often still workable, and Apollo Electric will say so honestly rather than driving out and billing you for the trip.

What We Do, and What We Send Elsewhere

Residential work covers panel upgrades and fuse panel conversions, rewiring, knob and tube and aluminum wiring remediation, EV charger installation and load calculations, pot lights and fixtures, basement and renovation rough-ins, generators, and troubleshooting on circuits that trip or go dead. Full detail sits on our residential electrical services page.

Commercial and industrial work covers service upgrades, three phase equipment, lighting retrofits, emergency and exit lighting, tenant fit-outs and maintenance contracts. Detail sits on our commercial electrical services page.

Emergency work runs 24 hours a day, every day, on a separate line from ordinary booking. What counts as an emergency, and what can safely wait until morning, is set out on our emergency electrician page and our guide to partial power outages.

What we do not do: gas, plumbing, HVAC mechanical, low voltage data cabling as a standalone trade, and solar. Where a job needs one of those, you get a straight referral rather than a general contractor markup on someone else's work.

How a Job Runs From First Call to Certificate

1. Call and scope. You describe the problem or the project. Straightforward jobs get a range on the phone. Anything involving an unseen fault gets a site visit first, because a phone quote on an invisible problem is a guess.
2. Site assessment. Readings at the service entrance, the panel and the affected circuits, plus a load calculation where the service is near its ampacity. Older Hamilton homes frequently turn out to need something different from what the homeowner expected.
3. Written quote before work starts. In Canadian dollars, itemised, including whether an ESA notification fee applies.
4. Notification where required. The Ontario Electrical Safety Code requires notification to the Electrical Safety Authority for defined categories of work. This is filed before the work, not after.
5. The work, then the certificate. Where notification applied, the job closes with a certificate of inspection. Keep it. It is what a buyer's lawyer or an insurer asks for later.

Safety obligations that fall on the homeowner or building owner rather than the contractor are set out on our electrical safety page.

What Hamilton Customers Say

The quotes below are reproduced as the customers wrote them, first names and neighbourhoods included. The full set of Apollo Electric reviews, with sources, sits on the reviews page.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long has Apollo Electric been in business?

Over 30 years, operating from 83 Ferndale Ave in Hamilton, Ontario. The company is owned and operated by Master Electrician Zvonko Lipovac and serves Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster, Waterdown, Stoney Creek, Grimsby, Burlington, Oakville, Milton, Cambridge and Kitchener-Waterloo.

Is Apollo Electric licensed and insured?

Yes. Apollo Electric holds ECRA/ESA Canada-wide licence 7009372, is a member of the ESA Authorized Contractor Program, and is WSIB compliant. The company is fully licensed and bonded. The licence number can be verified independently through the Electrical Safety Authority contractor search.

Who actually does the work?

Zvonko Lipovac, the owner and Master Electrician, attends work himself alongside a licensed and bonded team. That is the practical difference between a contractor licence held by an absent qualified individual and one held by the person standing at your panel.

Does Apollo Electric offer a warranty?

There is a satisfaction guarantee on all work, plus a lifetime warranty on select parts and components. The warranty applies to the specific parts and components it names rather than to every item in every job, and which is which is stated at quote time.

What areas does Apollo Electric serve?

Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster, Waterdown, Stoney Creek, Grimsby, Burlington, Oakville, Milton, Cambridge, Kitchener-Waterloo and surrounding areas including the Greater Toronto Area. Addresses just outside the list are often still workable, so it is worth calling to ask.

Is emergency service really available at any hour?

Yes. Emergency calls are taken 24 hours a day, every day of the year, on 905-921-5487. Non-emergency appointments are booked between 9:00 am and 8:00 pm, with evening and weekend service available for work that does not need overnight attendance.

References

• Electrical Safety Authority, licensing, notification and the Ontario Electrical Safety Code
• ESA, finding the right contractor, how to verify an ECRA/ESA licence
• Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, contractor coverage and clearance certificates
• Skilled Trades Ontario, electrician certification and the Master Electrician designation
• ThreeBestRated, top three electricians in Hamilton
• Alectra Utilities, distributor for Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster and Stoney Creek