Electrician in West Los Angeles, California

West Los Angeles is dense postwar apartment buildings mixed with older single family homes. Meter stack replacement and in unit subpanels are the core of the multi family work here.

Most of the housing between the 405 and the Santa Monica border went up after World War II. Small single family homes from the 1920s through the 1940s survive on some blocks, but the dominant building is the two or three story apartment from the 1950s and 1960s, often with parking underneath and units stacked above. Newer five and six story mixed use buildings have been going up along Santa Monica, Olympic and Pico boulevards in the last two decades.

That postwar apartment stock defines most of the calls. Owners deal with fused disconnects, unit panels rated well below what tenants now use, and meter sockets corroded from decades of use. Many buildings had AC units added through the walls without anyone revisiting the service. The single family homes here call about undersized 60 and 100 amp services, and newer buildings ask about adding chargers to garages that were not wired for them.

What West Los Angeles properties usually need