Infinity Electrical is a licensed electrical contractor for Boyle Heights, the City of Los Angeles neighborhood on the east bank of the Los Angeles River, where close to half of all homes were built before 1940. We upgrade panels, rewire older houses and courts, add EV charger circuits and wire shops and industrial buildings, on LADBS permits and LADWP power.
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Everything we do in Boyle Heights, with what each job usually involves here. The photos are from our own jobs.
Replacing original and patched-together services on pre-1940 Boyle Heights houses and courts, sized for the front house and the rear unit together, with LADWP's meter spot and the LADBS permit coordinated before work starts. Background: heat pumps, induction ranges and the panel.
Level 2 charger circuits for driveways and garages behind older houses, planned around LADWP's suggested service assessment and its optional dedicated EV meter, and for renters, worked out with the owner before any equipment is bought.
Tracing tripping breakers, warm outlets and dead circuits in houses and courts where several generations of wiring meet, and in crowded unit panels in older apartment buildings.
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Rewiring Victorian, Foursquare and Craftsman-era houses a section at a time so families can stay at home during the work, and unit-by-unit rewiring in occupied courts and apartments.
Storefront and sign lighting for shops on First Street and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue, LED fixtures for warehouses and workshops near the river, and fixture and ceiling fan work in older homes.
Grounded and GFCI-protected outlets where two-prong receptacles remain, and dedicated circuits for kitchens, laundry and air conditioning in units that were wired long before such loads existed.
Three-phase feeders, machine circuits and service work for industrial buildings in the Hostetter and South Anderson Street areas, and tenant improvements for mixed-use buildings with shops below and apartments above.
Also: subpanels, dedicated circuits, 240-volt outlets for dryers and ranges, exterior and security lighting, hard-wired smoke alarms, and small repairs of every kind.
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Call (844) 430-7681Request an estimateInfinity Electrical Inc. (CSLB #1100231) offers electrical work for houses, duplexes, apartment buildings, storefronts and industrial spaces in Boyle Heights. What sets the electrical work here apart is age: City Planning's estimates count about 45% of the neighborhood's housing units as built in 1939 or earlier, and the updated community plan places most existing buildings between roughly 1900 and 1930, so original services, ungrounded circuits and generations of add-on wiring are ordinary findings rather than surprises.
Boyle Heights is one of the oldest residential districts in Los Angeles. A 2008 historic resources survey prepared for the city's former redevelopment agency traces it to Andrew Boyle's purchase of the bluff land in 1858 and William H. Workman's subdivision of it into 35-acre tracts in 1875. A land boom in the 1880s and transit links to downtown, first a cable railway that reached First and Chicago streets in 1889 and later the Pacific Electric red cars, turned it into an early streetcar suburb. The survey's account of early suburban growth covers 1873 to 1912 and names Queen Anne, Eastlake, Italianate, shotgun cottage, American Foursquare and Craftsman among the styles that survive.
That beginning still shows in the streets. Victorian and Craftsman-era houses stand near bungalow courts and garden apartments, which the community plan sets out to preserve; garden-style public housing from the early 1940s, such as Ramona Gardens and Estrada Courts, sits inside the residential grid; and industrial land runs along the western and southern edges, by the river and toward Vernon. About three in four occupied homes are rented, according to City Planning's 2020–2024 estimates, so much of the electrical work in the neighborhood is arranged by owners and managers of occupied buildings, or by families who own a house with a second unit behind it.
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City Planning's 2020–2024 estimates count about 24,300 housing units in Boyle Heights, 63% of them in buildings with more than one unit and 76% of occupied homes rented. Age defines the stock: 45% of units date from 1939 or earlier, and fewer than one in ten were built after 1999.
Most of Boyle Heights uses ZIP codes 90033, 90023 and 90063, and two of them cross a boundary that changes the rules. Parts of 90023 and 90063 lie in unincorporated East Los Angeles, and 90023 also reaches into the City of Commerce. On the Boyle Heights side, inside the City of Los Angeles, electrical permits come from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS) and the meter belongs to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). Across the line, permits come from Los Angeles County Public Works Building and Safety and Southern California Edison delivers the power; our East Los Angeles page covers that side. Since a Los Angeles mailing address appears on both sides, we confirm the jurisdiction from the parcel or the electric bill before writing up a job.
Service upgrades on LADWP. When a house needs more capacity, the new service begins with LADWP's meter spot, which for single-family services up to 320 amps can be requested online. LADWP states that an LADBS electrical permit has to be issued before an inspector can visit the job, and that when its existing service is adequate for the new load there are generally no installation charges, although work such as conduit in public property or a transformer change can add some. Large residential, multi-family and small commercial services go through an LADWP Electric Service Representative, and any three-phase service, or single-phase service above 400 amps, goes to a Service Planning Engineer. On an older lot with a front house and a rear unit, where the meter can sit is often the first question, so it gets settled at the start.
Chargers and LADWP. LADWP recommends a service assessment before a home charger goes in: a licensed electrician looks at the panel, and an LADWP representative checks capacity up to the meter. Its residential charger rebate is open to account holders with an active LADWP meter on a residential rate, with an added amount for customers enrolled in the Senior Citizen/Disability Lifeline or EZ-SAVE programs and another for a dedicated EV meter, which LADWP's EV time-of-use option also requires. Program terms change, so read LADWP's rebate page before buying equipment. For renters and condo owners, LADWP's advice is to talk with the property owner and any HOA first, because parking assignments and the location of the meters shape the options.
No HPOZ, and a new community plan. Boyle Heights has no adopted Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, so an electrical job here doesn't go through HPOZ review the way exterior work can inside the neighbouring Lincoln Heights HPOZ. The updated Boyle Heights Community Plan, approved by the City Council in September 2024 and operative from August 20, 2026, moves the area onto the city's new zoning code and adds a Community Plan Implementation Overlay, which the Los Angeles Conservancy describes as including a historic preservation subarea. For exterior changes to an older building, such as a relocated meter or a new service mast, the parcel's current zoning is worth checking before the location is fixed. The plan also asks the city to support HPOZs or similar conservation districts for eligible areas, so that picture could change.
The permits and utilities guide explains the whole picture for the three counties we serve.
Unincorporated East Los Angeles, to the east, takes its permits from Los Angeles County and its power from SCE, and Clean Power Alliance, whose service area includes unincorporated Los Angeles County, may be the energy supplier there while SCE delivers it. Across the river to the west, Downtown Los Angeles follows the same LADBS and LADWP arrangement as Boyle Heights. So do Lincoln Heights and El Sereno to the north, though each has an adopted HPOZ (Lincoln Heights, and El Sereno–Berkshire), which can bring preservation review to exterior work inside those districts. Vernon, to the south, is a separate city with its own electric utility, Vernon Public Utilities. Commerce lies to the southeast, and Montebello, a short drive east beyond East LA, runs its own building division on SCE power.
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No phone quotes and no guessing. A written estimate after we've seen the job, then permitted, inspected work.
Call or send the form. A photo of the panel or the problem helps us come prepared.
We come to your home or business and look at the panel, wiring or site.
Scope, price and timeline in writing before you decide anything.
We pull the permit, coordinate your utility when needed, and finish with the inspection.
It depends on the parcel, not the ZIP code: parts of 90023 and 90063 are in Boyle Heights, inside the City of Los Angeles, and other parts are in unincorporated East Los Angeles. The difference matters, because the city side uses LADBS permits and LADWP power, while the East LA side uses Los Angeles County Building and Safety and Southern California Edison. Your electric bill is the easiest clue, and we confirm it before quoting.
No, Boyle Heights is not on City Planning's list of adopted HPOZs, so moving a meter or panel doesn't go through HPOZ review. The updated community plan, operative since August 20, 2026, adds an implementation overlay that the LA Conservancy says includes a historic preservation subarea, so on an older house we check the parcel's zoning before proposing an exterior change. The new meter location itself is set through LADWP's meter spot.
Not necessarily all at once, but a house of that age deserves a careful look at its wiring. Many have early circuits alongside later additions, and a sound plan comes from seeing the panel and a sample of outlets and junction boxes. We then explain which circuits can stay, which should be replaced first and whether the service can carry what you want to add; our notes on home inspection electrical findings cover the usual issues.
Sometimes, if a load calculation shows the existing service has room; otherwise the service is upgraded or the back unit is fed from a larger panel. On older Boyle Heights lots the rear unit is often on wiring that was extended informally, so we trace how it is actually fed. A new meter or bigger service starts with LADWP, and multi-family services go through an LADWP Electric Service Representative rather than the online single-family request.
Possibly, but the first step is the property owner, which is also LADWP's advice for renters. Parking assignments and where the building's meters sit decide what is practical, and the owner has to agree to the circuit and any panel or meter work. We can assess the building's service with you and the owner together, and our guide to EV charger permits in Los Angeles covers the LADBS side; see also EV charger installation.
LADWP does: it sends requests for any three-phase service, and for single-phase service above 400 amps, to a Service Planning Engineer. Before that, an electrician works out the load the machinery needs and what the building already has. Some buildings already have a three-phase service that can be extended while others need a new one, and the difference is worth knowing before you sign a lease; see leasing a shop that needs three-phase power.
It can be, and it is worth having a licensed electrician find the cause rather than living with it. In an older house the reason may be an overloaded circuit, a loose connection or a fault in the service itself, and some causes sit on LADWP's side of the meter. Please don't open the panel yourself; our article on flickering lights explains what to note before the visit.
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