Electrician in Gardena, California

Gardena has postwar single family housing alongside light industrial and a lot of older fourplexes. Original meter arrangements are the most common reason we get called.

Postwar homes on modest lots make up most of the residential streets, many built in the late 1940s and 1950s. The city has a long Japanese American history and many original family owners, so some houses have changed hands only once. Mixed in are older fourplexes and small apartment buildings, plus light industrial pockets where machine shops, distributors and auto businesses run on three phase power. Many of the houses have had rooms added at the back over the years, and few of those additions came with a bigger service.

Because many homes stayed in one family for decades, wiring updates often happened one circuit at a time. When the house finally sells, the buyer's inspection finds an original fuse panel or a 1950s breaker panel with doubled up circuits and no grounding. Fourplex owners call to separate meters or replace an aging meter bank. Shop owners call when new equipment needs more amperage or a different voltage than the building was wired for.

What Gardena properties usually need