Electrician in Hancock Park, California

Hancock Park is large 1920s custom homes, many still carrying original wiring behind finished plaster. Rewires here have to be planned around the finishes, which is a different job from an open framing rewire.

Hancock Park was subdivided by G. Allan Hancock mostly in the 1920s, and its roughly 1,200 homes are large two story period revival houses: Tudor, English, Spanish Colonial, Mediterranean, Monterey and American Colonial. Homes sit well back from the street, with long side driveways running under porte cocheres to rear garages, and many lots have pool houses, guest quarters or converted garages behind the main house. The Wilshire Country Club occupies a large piece of the neighborhood.

Distance is a recurring issue. The panel is often at the back of the house or in the rear garage, and the pool, guesthouse or studio is fed through old underground runs that are hard to trace. We find original knob and tube in upper floors, early panels that were added onto rather than replaced, and services too small for central air, pool equipment and EV charging together. Owners call before a major renovation, when an insurer asks about the wiring, or when adding an EV charger.

What Hancock Park properties usually need