Electrician in Santa Ana, California

Santa Ana has some of the oldest housing in Orange County, including prewar homes that have never been rewired, plus a dense stock of apartment buildings. Meter stack and per unit metering work is steady here.

As the county seat since the 1880s, Santa Ana has housing that spans more than a century. French Park and the downtown edges hold Victorian and early twentieth century homes. Floral Park, Washington Square and Wilshire Square are mostly 1920s and 1930s Spanish revival and Tudor homes. Beyond those districts the city filled in with small postwar houses, and later with fourplexes and garden apartments along the main corridors. Each era leaves a different set of wiring problems behind the walls.

In the prewar districts the common findings are knob and tube still carrying live circuits, cloth wiring spliced into newer runs, and two prong outlets throughout. Postwar homes tend to have small 60 or 100 amp services and a garage that was converted years ago without a permit. Property managers here usually call about duplexes and fourplexes where every unit has outgrown its subpanel, or about adding a legal unit to a lot that still has one undersized meter feeding everything on it.

What Santa Ana properties usually need