Electrician in Valley Glen, California

Valley Glen is postwar housing with steady ADU and addition activity, and the existing 100 amp services rarely survive the load calculation. LADBS permits and an LADWP service change usually go together here.

Valley Glen became an official neighborhood in 1998 after homeowners petitioned to separate from Van Nuys, and nearby blocks from North Hollywood joined them. It now covers several thousand homes between Hazeltine and Whitsett. Los Angeles Valley College and Grant High School sit in the middle, and the Tujunga Wash runs through with the Great Wall of Los Angeles mural along its banks. Single family streets dominate, with apartment buildings concentrated along the larger boulevards.

Valley Glen houses are mostly postwar ranch homes with original or partly upgraded panels, and owners here invest in them. We see a lot of kitchen remodels, primary suite additions and heat pump conversions, each of which adds load. Panels from the 1960s and 1970s, including Zinsco and Federal Pacific, still show up during these projects. Apartment owners along the boulevards call about meter equipment and tenant EV requests. Detached garages and workshops are common, and the old feeders to them are often undersized.

What Valley Glen properties usually need