Electrician in West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood is dense multi family housing with strict local review, and the city runs its own building department rather than going through LADBS. Older fourplexes and courtyard buildings here almost always need the meter arrangement addressed first.

West Hollywood incorporated as its own city in 1984, and most of its housing predates that. The residential streets between Sunset and Beverly are lined with 1920s and 1930s Spanish revival fourplexes, courtyard buildings and small bungalows, mixed with 1960s and 1970s stucco apartment buildings. The Sunset Strip and Santa Monica Boulevard carry hotels, clubs, restaurants and offices, while the area around Melrose and Robertson is design showrooms and retail. Renters far outnumber owners here, so most of our callers are landlords and managers.

Behind the facades we find original unit services of 30 or 60 amps, split bus panels, and Zinsco and Federal Pacific panels in the 1960s and 1970s buildings. Apartments that were renovated piecemeal often have a modern kitchen fed by a panel from another era. Owners call about seismic retrofit projects that open walls, about unit panel replacements an insurer requested, and about tenants asking for EV charging in buildings with a shared garage and a small house service.

What West Hollywood properties usually need