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Electrician in Pasadena

Pasadena has the oldest concentrated housing stock in our service area and its own electric utility to go with it. Both facts shape almost every job here.

Electrical work in Pasadena

The Craftsman bungalows and early revival houses that Pasadena is known for were wired, where they were wired at all, for a household with a handful of lights and no appliances. A century of additions has usually produced a panel that has been extended rather than replaced, original circuits still in service, and grounding that exists in some parts of the house and not others. Landmark and historic districts — Bungalow Heaven among them — add design review for anything that changes the exterior. And like Glendale, Pasadena owns its electric utility, so a service upgrade is an application to Pasadena Water and Power on the city's timeline rather than to Edison.

Pasadena questions

Can I upgrade the electrical in a landmark district house?

Yes. The review concerns what is visible from outside — fixtures, visible conduit, meter position — rather than the wiring in the walls. In practice it means agreeing the exterior details before the work rather than after, and sometimes routing a run the long way to keep a facade clean. Interior rewiring and panel work are not usually the sticking point.

My Pasadena bungalow has a fuse box. Does it have to go?

Not automatically, but it is usually the right call. A fuse panel that is intact and correctly fused is not itself dangerous; the problems are the absence of a ground throughout, no capacity for anything modern, and the ease with which someone can over-fuse a circuit. If you are doing any substantial work, replacing it while the house is open is far cheaper than doing it as a separate job later.

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