Electrician in Panorama City, California

Panorama City was built almost entirely as postwar housing for aerospace workers, so the single family stock is remarkably uniform and remarkably undersized by modern standards. The apartment stock along Van Nuys Boulevard is where the meter stack and subpanel work lives.

Panorama City started in 1948 as the Valley's first planned community, a Kaiser and Fritz Burns project with small homes bought through GI Bill and FHA loans. The original houses went up fast and to a pattern: two or three bedrooms, one bath, a modest service on an outside wall. Many are still close to that footprint, while others have gained a bedroom, a den or a converted garage. Whatever was added almost always hangs off the same small panel the house was born with, and a few still have fuses.

Today about two thirds of Panorama City households rent, and low rise apartment buildings from the 1960s onward house most of them. Owners call us when tenants overload unit panels, when an insurer asks for the main breaker brand, or when they want to add units to a lot. The old GM assembly plant site is now The Plant shopping center, and the commercial frontage along Roscoe and Van Nuys Boulevard brings small tenant improvement work alongside the residential jobs.

What Panorama City properties usually need