Electrician in Reseda, California

Reseda is dense with small apartment buildings and duplexes built in the 1950s and 1960s, which is meter stack territory. The single family stock is postwar and rarely has more than 100 amps unless somebody upgraded it.

Reseda was founded as Marian in 1912, took its current name in the early 1920s, and for decades grew lettuce, lima beans and walnuts. Its population jumped from about 4,000 in 1940 to more than 16,000 by 1950 as ranches and orange groves became tracts for returning veterans. Those late 1940s houses sit on lots deep enough that many now have a back house or a converted garage. Sherman Way, the old business center, still carries a run of small commercial buildings from the town's early decades.

The 1994 Northridge earthquake was centered just west of Reseda Boulevard, so homes and buildings here took heavy shaking, and repairs since then vary widely in quality. Rental property makes up about half the housing. Owners of duplexes and fourplexes call us to split or replace meters, add unit panels and clean up decades of owner wiring. Single family owners call about panel replacements for insurance, garage conversions and EV chargers. Aluminum branch wiring turns up in some buildings from the late 1960s.

What Reseda properties usually need