Electrician in Burbank, California

Burbank runs its own utility, Burbank Water and Power, so service upgrades here are coordinated with the city rather than LADWP. The housing is largely 1920s through 1950s, which means older services and a lot of original wiring behind the plaster.

Much of the flat part of town filled in during and right after World War II, when aircraft plant jobs brought thousands of families and builders answered with block after block of small stucco homes. Those houses were wired for a fridge, a radio and a few lamps. Today the same 1940s bungalow might have central air, a garage gym and a converted rear unit, all fed through a service that was never meant to carry it. Panels from that period, plus later swaps to brands insurers now flag, are a regular finding on our walkthroughs.

South of downtown and around the Media District, two story apartment buildings from the 1950s and 1960s line many streets, and their meter banks and feeders are often original. Up in the Burbank Hills, homes sit on sloped lots with long runs from the street. In the Rancho, horse property adds barns and arena lights to the load. Property managers here usually call about a meter bank or an insurance letter. Homeowners call when they add an ADU, a heat pump or an EV and the old panel cannot take it.

What Burbank properties usually need