Residential Electrical Services Los Angeles

Power your home the right way.

Electrical is the one trade where the worst problems are the ones you can't see. Bad wiring doesn't announce itself. It sits behind the drywall until a breaker won't stop tripping, an outlet runs warm, or an inspector opens the panel and finds a mess. On an older Los Angeles home, that's most of the time. Here's the honest version of what we find. Homes built before 1990 usually have a 100-amp panel, sometimes a 125-amp. That was plenty when a house ran a stove, a furnace, and a few lights. It's not plenty for an induction cooktop, an EV charger, a modern HVAC system, and a house full of connected devices all pulling at once. Pre-war homes still have knob-and-tube in the walls, ungrounded and brittle. A lot of homes from the late '60s and early '70s have aluminum branch wiring, which loosens and heats up at the connections over time. And Federal Pacific panels, common in LA for decades, have breakers that are known not to trip when they should. We check for all of it on the first walk, not after the walls are already open. When a panel upgrade is actually needed, we'll tell you. Not every house needs one. If your existing panel has capacity and the bus and breakers are sound, we'd rather add the circuits you need than sell you a job you don't. When the load calc says the panel can't carry what you're adding, we upgrade to 200-amp or 400-amp service with modern breakers, honest labeling, and room left for whatever comes next. Lighting is where a room's whole feel changes. We lay out recessed lighting for real: spacing, beam angle, and color temperature planned to the room, not dropped onto a grid. It goes in on dimmers, on the right driver, and to California Title 24, which on a remodel means high-efficacy LED and the controls to match. Under-cabinet LED, step lights, uplighting on the architecture: the small stuff gets its own circuits and clean terminations so it lasts. Smart home wiring is close to standard in the homes we work on now. We pre-wire for automation, set smart switches and dimmers, pull low-voltage for cameras and audio, and integrate with Lutron, Control4, or Savant. If the walls are already open for a remodel, that's the moment to run it. Doing it later means opening finished walls back up. EV chargers are simple when they're done right. A Level 2 charger (240V, 40 to 60 amp) on a dedicated circuit from the panel, permitted and inspected. Most go in a single day. The part people skip is the permit and the load check, and that's exactly the part that matters if your panel is already near its limit. That's the real line on this work. A handyman can swap an outlet. Panels, new circuits, EV chargers, and anything tied into your service belong to a licensed electrician, on a permit, with a city inspection at the end. We pull the permit, schedule the inspections, and build to current NEC code on every job, from a single added circuit to a full electrical overhaul in a whole-home remodel. Not because it's a checklist item, but because it's your house, and the wiring has to be right the first time.

• License #1140511
• Licensed & Insured
• Serving LA's Westside