Home Electrical Upgrades

If a home inspection, an insurance letter, or a bit of your own research just confirmed you have a federal pacific panel, the next question is almost always the same one: what is this actually going to cost to fix? The honest answer depends on scope, but real Los Angeles-area pricing data gives Santa Monica

Electrical panel amperage for EV charger installation is the first thing a Pasadena electrician checks before recommending any home charging setup, because the charger itself is only half the equation. The other half is whether your existing panel has enough spare capacity to run it safely alongside everything else in your house. With more EVs

Signs you need an electrical panel upgrade are easy to miss until something actually fails, and in a city like Pasadena, where a large share of the housing stock is decades old, that moment tends to arrive sooner than homeowners expect. If your lights flicker when the air conditioner kicks on, or your breaker box

A code exception that has quietly protected outdoor air conditioners and heat pumps from a GFCI requirement is set to expire on September 1, 2026, and the 2026 GFCI requirement for outdoor air conditioners is about to become a real, enforceable rule in jurisdictions that have adopted the current National Electrical Code. If you have

A Zinsco or Federal Pacific electrical panel sitting in your garage or hallway closet can quietly put your homeowners insurance at risk, and most people who own one have no idea until an inspector flags it during a renewal or a home sale. These two panel brands were installed in millions of American homes, with

Electrical panel upgrade cost in Pasadena varies more than most homeowners expect, and the reason has less to do with contractor pricing and more to do with what’s actually behind the panel door. A city with housing stock ranging from 1900s Craftsman bungalows to brand-new construction means two homes on the same block can need

A panel upgrade for an EV charger in Pasadena comes up far more often than most homeowners expect, and it usually isn’t because anything is broken. It’s because the electrical panel that came with your home was sized for the appliances of its era, not for an EV charger drawing 40 to 60 amps on

EV charger installation in Pasadena is one of the most common upgrade requests we get from homeowners once they bring home a new electric vehicle, and the process looks a little different than a lot of online guides suggest. Between the city’s permit rules, Pasadena Water and Power’s own incentive program, and a housing stock

An electrical panel upgrade in Irvine is one of those projects homeowners tend to put off until something forces the issue, usually a breaker that will not stop tripping or a remodel that suddenly needs more circuits than the panel has room for. Irvine’s mix of decades-old master-planned neighborhoods and newer construction means panel capacity

EV charger installation in Pasadena has gone from a rare request to one of the most common calls electricians get in the San Gabriel Valley. Drive through Old Town Pasadena or past South Lake Avenue on any given evening and you will see a lot more charging cables running from garages to driveways than there