Electrician in Van Nuys, California

Van Nuys has one of the densest concentrations of small and mid size apartment buildings in the Valley, which means meter stacks, in unit subpanels and building wide service upgrades. Single family stock here is mostly 1940s to 1960s and frequently still on the original service.

Van Nuys was laid out in 1911 and spent its first decades as a farm town and the Valley's civic center, then filled with apartments as the region grew. Today roughly three of every four households rent. Walk any block between Sherman Way and Victory and you will see two story stucco buildings with tuck under parking, 1960s garden courts, and newer podium projects near the boulevards. Each era came with its own electrical: fused disconnects and split bus panels in the oldest buildings, small unit panels with few spaces in the middle years.

Property managers make up most of our Van Nuys calls. A unit panel overheats, a tenant runs a window unit and a space heater on one circuit, or an insurer inspects the laundry room and finds double tapped breakers in the house panel. Soft story retrofits under the city's ordinance also force electrical changes, because meters and conduit on the parking level often sit right where new steel frames have to go. Industrial and aviation properties around Van Nuys Airport bring in three phase service questions as well.

What Van Nuys properties usually need