# MechanicalConsulting.ca > MechanicalConsulting.ca is a Canadian business consulting service, part of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group. Owners of plumbing, heating, HVAC and combined mechanical contracting firms in every Canadian province and territory MechanicalConsulting.ca is part of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group of companies, a Canadian business headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, led by Ali Sedighi, MBA. Coverage: Canada. Contact: call or text (604) 632-4959, or email Ali@Sedighi.ca. There are no forms: call, text or email only. ## Key pages - [Home](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/): MechanicalConsulting.ca helps owners of Canadian plumbing, heating and HVAC contracting firms price work properly, track job margins, plan crews and step back from the daily grind. It is business consulting, not technical or design work. - [Services](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/services/): Start with the symptom, not the service. Thin margins on busy months usually point to pricing; jobs that look good at bid and bad at close point to job costing; a crew that is always short points to capacity. - [Areas](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/): We work with mechanical contractors across Canada, online by video call and in person. Each region page covers the market, the heating mix, the seasons, the regulators to know and the programs shaping demand, as of October 2026. - [About](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/about/): MechanicalConsulting.ca advises the owners of Canadian mechanical contracting firms on the business side of the trade. It belongs to the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group, runs from Vancouver and is led by Ali Sedighi, MBA. - [Results](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/results/): Our published case studies come from HVAC and heating companies. They are results from our HVAC work, not mechanical consulting engagements, and we show them for the business lessons a mechanical owner can use: unit economics, divisions, capacity and speed. - [Pricing](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/pricing/): We use the published rates of our parent practice, BusinessConsulting.ca: $175 to $350 per hour, projects from $3,500 to $25,000, and retainers from $2,500 to $12,000 a month, in Canadian dollars plus GST/HST based on your province (GST and QST in Quebec). - [FAQ](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/faq/): Short, direct answers to the questions owners ask most: what it costs, how long it takes, what you have to share, what you keep, and what we will and will not promise. - [Contact](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/contact/): Call, text or email. A short text to (604) 632-4959 is a welcome way to start, and the first 30-minute consultation is free, online by video call, in person or by phone. ## Services - [Capacity and hiring](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/services/capacity-and-hiring/): Capacity planning turns your backlog into crew-weeks, so you can see a shortage three months before it hits and hire on purpose instead of in a rush. - [Exit planning](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/services/exit-planning/): A mechanical firm is worth more to a buyer when it runs without its owner, shows clean job-level numbers and has work that repeats. We prepare those three things; valuation, sale and succession work runs through Sedighi.ca and BizSell.ca. - [Job costing](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/services/job-costing/): Job costing is only useful if it tells you a job is going wrong before it is finished. We set up cost codes, weekly reviews and change-order habits that make that possible. - [Owner time](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/services/owner-time/): If every estimate, dispatch problem and difficult customer still runs through the owner, the business is capped at the owner's week. We plan what to hand off, to whom, and how to keep control of margin while you do it. - [Pricing and estimating](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/services/pricing-and-estimating/): Your selling rate should come from your costs and your target profit, never from a competitor's truck wrap. We rebuild it from the ground up and make your estimators use it. - [Service mix](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/services/service-construction-mix/): Service, replacement and new construction can all be good business, but they make money in different ways and demand different cash, crews and management. We model your mix before you change it. ## Coverage - [Alberta](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/alberta/): Alberta is a gas-heating province with a long winter, two large competitive cities and a compressed construction season. Mechanical firms there win on service capacity in winter and on project discipline in summer. - [British Columbia](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/british-columbia/): BC mechanical firms work in two climates at once: a mild, wet coast where gas and electric heat split the market, and a colder Interior and North with longer heating seasons. Pricing, crew plans and service mix should reflect which one you are in. - [Manitoba](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/manitoba/): Manitoba has one of the longest heating seasons in southern Canada, a market centred on Winnipeg, and active heat-pump programs. Mechanical firms there need winter capacity and a clear view of which new work actually pays. - [New Brunswick](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/new-brunswick/): New Brunswick is a heat-pump province: more than a quarter of homes rely on one for primary heat. Mechanical firms there plan around that installed base, cold winters and a bilingual customer market spread across several mid-sized cities. - [Newfoundland and Labrador](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/newfoundland-and-labrador/): Newfoundland and Labrador is an electrically heated province with a shrinking oil base, generous conversion incentives and long distances outside the Avalon. Mechanical firms there need conversion work priced properly and crews planned for a long heating season. - [Nova Scotia](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/nova-scotia/): Nova Scotia mechanical firms serve a market in transition: oil, electricity and heat pumps each heat a large share of homes, and rebate programs have changed several times. A clear service mix and steady pricing matter more than chasing each program. - [Ontario](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/ontario/): Ontario is Canada's largest mechanical market, with dense, competitive urban centres, a gas-heating majority and active heat-pump incentives. Firms there need pricing that survives competition and job costing that survives long projects. - [Prince Edward Island](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/prince-edward-island/): More than a third of PEI homes rely on a heat pump as their main heating system, and a large share still heat with oil. Mechanical firms are mostly small, travel across the whole island, and depend heavily on the owner. - [Quebec](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/quebec/): Quebec is an electrically heated province with its own licensing system, construction-industry labour rules and French-language requirements. Mechanical firms there plan around heat-pump demand and a labour framework unlike anywhere else in Canada. - [Saskatchewan](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/saskatchewan/): Saskatchewan mechanical firms serve a gas-heated province with very long winters and wide distances between communities. Travel time, seasonal capacity and pricing for rural calls decide much of the profit. - [Territories](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/areas/territories/): Mechanical work in the North means heating that runs most of the year, remote job sites, freight and travel costs that dwarf southern norms, and small crews. Pricing that recovers logistics, and capacity that does not depend on one person, matter more here than anywhere. ## Guides and articles - [Guides](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/guides/): Three working guides, each built around a calculation or a tool you can use this week with your own payroll, job and tender data. No sign-up and nothing to download. - [Bid/no-bid scorecard](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/guides/bid-no-bid/): Every bid costs estimating hours, and winning the wrong job costs far more. A short weighted scorecard, filled in before anyone opens the drawings in detail, keeps your estimators on the work you can win and deliver at a margin. - [Burdened labour rate](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/guides/burdened-labour-rate/): Your real cost per billable hour is wages plus burden, divided by billable efficiency, plus overhead per billable hour. Your selling rate is that cost divided by one minus your target net margin. Here is how to work out each piece. - [WIP schedule](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/guides/wip-schedule/): A WIP schedule compares what each open job has earned with what you have billed, and shows whether its projected margin is holding. Read monthly, it is the earliest warning a contractor owner gets that a job, or the whole year, is going wrong. ## Optional - [Full text](https://mechanicalconsulting.ca/llms-full.txt) - [Parent company](https://sedighi.ca)