Electrician in Palms, California

Palms is one of the densest apartment districts on the Westside, full of 1950s through 1970s buildings on original meter stacks. Building wide service upgrades are most of what we do here.

Palms is one of the oldest communities on the Westside, founded in the 1880s and annexed to Los Angeles in 1915. Very little of that early town survives. What replaced it, starting after World War II, is block after block of two and three story apartment buildings, many of them stucco boxes with parking tucked underneath. Small single family homes from the 1920s through the 1940s are mixed in on some streets.

Many of these buildings have had several owners and little electrical investment. Common findings are aluminum branch wiring repairs, unit panels with obsolete breakers and meter sockets showing heat damage. Tenants run more appliances than the buildings were designed for, and management companies call after repeated outages or when an insurer requires a panel replacement. Newer buildings along the Expo line corridor ask about EV charging for residents. Owners refinancing or selling also call, because lenders and buyers increasingly ask for the electrical to be documented.

What Palms properties usually need