Electrician in North Hollywood, California

North Hollywood is a mix of 1920s bungalows near the arts district and dense newer apartment construction along the transit corridor. That means knob and tube in one block and multi unit metering questions in the next.

North Hollywood began as Toluca, then Lankershim, and took its current name in 1927. The national marketing push of the late 1920s filled the flats with Spanish and Craftsman influenced bungalows on small lots around the old downtown along Lankershim. Those houses have been rewired in pieces over almost a century, so one attic can hold original cloth and porcelain runs next to modern cable. Postwar duplexes and 1960s apartment courts fill the blocks in between, each with its own generation of metering.

Three out of four households here rent, so much of our North Hollywood work is for owners and managers rather than residents. Older courtyard buildings need meter and service replacements, and small commercial spaces around the NoHo Arts District change hands often, which means new tenant layouts and panel work for studios, theaters and restaurants. The Metro B Line terminal opened in 2000 and brought new construction around it, but the older stock nearby is where the electrical problems usually are.

What North Hollywood properties usually need