Electrician in Bellflower, California

Bellflower is postwar housing with a heavy layer of small apartment buildings and added units. Meter stacks and service upgrades are the core of the work.

Bellflower was dairy and farm country settled largely by Dutch and Japanese families before the 1950s. When the dairies moved east, the land filled with single family homes and, soon after, a large number of small apartment buildings from the 1950s through the 1970s. Those two story walk ups and courtyard buildings, usually four to twenty units, are a big part of the city today. Many still run on their original meter banks, with small individual unit panels and a house panel for laundry and lights.

Property managers are a large share of the calls here. They need a meter bank replaced after a utility or insurance inspection, a tenant panel upgraded so a unit can take a new air conditioner, or the house meter rebuilt for a laundry room or a new gate. On the single family side, owners call about converted garages, back houses and electric vehicles. The common thread is that original service equipment from the 1950s and 1960s is reaching the end of its life.

What Bellflower properties usually need