Electrician in Culver City

What we do in Culver City

Everything we do in Culver City, with what each job usually involves here. The photos are from our own jobs.

Panel upgrades in Culver City

Service upgrades for 1940s and 1950s houses whose original panels cannot take another large load, with the city permit and the SCE or LADWP meter work lined up for that particular address.

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EV charger installation in Culver City

Level 2 chargers for driveways and garages, using the city's expedited EVSE permit when the project qualifies, plus charger circuits for condo and apartment parking once the association has signed off.

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Electrical repair & troubleshooting in Culver City

Tracing dead outlets, warm switches and breakers that keep tripping in pre-1970 houses and duplexes, where decades of remodeling can leave several generations of wiring behind the walls.

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Rewiring in Culver City

Replacing worn or ungrounded branch wiring in postwar homes, often room by room while the walls are already open for a kitchen or bathroom remodel.

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Lighting & ceiling fans in Culver City

Recessed, pendant and exterior lighting for remodeled postwar houses and condo interiors, with any required city permit coordinated as part of the job.

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Outlets, GFCI & new circuits in Culver City

GFCI and AFCI protection, added outlets and dedicated circuits for home offices and kitchen appliances in older houses and condos.

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Commercial electrical in Culver City

Tenant improvement wiring, lighting and three-phase power for creative offices and light-industrial space in and around the Hayden Tract, and for shops and restaurants on the Washington and Sepulveda boulevard corridors.

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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.

Working in Culver City

Culver City is a separate city of about 5.1 square miles, incorporated on September 20, 1917 and named for Harry Culver, who began his efforts to establish the town in 1913. The 2020 census counted 40,779 residents. On a map it reads like an island inside Los Angeles: Mar Vista and Palms lie to the north, Westchester to the south, Mid-City, West Adams and Baldwin Hills to the east, and Venice, Playa Vista and Del Rey to the west, while unincorporated Ladera Heights and Marina del Rey touch its edges too.

That patchwork matters for electrical work more than it does in most cities. A mailing address reading Culver City does not prove a parcel is inside city limits: the City of Los Angeles points out that a large portion of its Del Rey neighbourhood carries Culver City's 90230 ZIP code, and 90066 also crosses the boundary. So before a panel upgrade or charger is quoted, we confirm which government the parcel belongs to and which utility serves the meter, because those two answers decide where the paperwork goes.

Infinity Electrical Inc. (CSLB #1100231) starts a Culver City job by looking at the service equipment and how the building is really used, and the written estimate follows that visit. Customer assistance is available in English and Spanish.

What's common in Culver City homes

Culver City splits roughly evenly between single-family homes and multi-unit buildings. State Department of Finance figures quoted in the city's 2013–2021 housing element put detached houses at 39.6 percent of all homes and buildings with five or more units at 38.3 percent, and the Census Bureau reports an owner-occupied rate of 55.1 percent for 2019–2023.

• Postwar houses. The 2000 Census figures in that housing element show 68 percent of owner-occupied homes built before 1970, with 27 percent from the 1950s and another 20 percent from the 1940s. Houses from that period were generally wired for much smaller loads than today's, so adding a heat pump, an induction cooktop or a charger usually begins with a load calculation; our guide to heat pump and induction panel upgrades explains why.
• Apartments and duplexes. Renter-occupied homes follow a similar pattern in the same table, with 66 percent built before 1970 and about a quarter dating from the 1970s. Older multi-unit buildings often have a shared meter bank feeding small panels in each unit, which limits what one tenant or owner can add without looking at the whole building.
• Fox Hills. Annexed to Culver City in 1964, when it was still open land with horse stables and golf courses, Fox Hills was developed in the 1970s, mostly as apartments and condominiums, around the Fox Hills Mall that opened in 1975. Condo work there usually involves the homeowners association as well as the owner, particularly for chargers in shared parking.
• Hayden Tract and the studios. A 2011 history by the city historian describes the Hayden Tract, north of Ballona Creek with Higuera Street as its western edge, as mapped in 1946 for industry, with spur tracks to the Pacific Electric line; by the early 1990s many manufacturers, Mattel among them, had gone, and buildings reworked with architect Eric Owen Moss went on to draw technology, media and entertainment tenants. The city's 2013–2021 housing element calls the tract a creative industries hub. Sony Pictures Studios, on the former MGM lot, and The Culver Studios are also in the city, and in March 2025 the city began new specific plans for Fox Hills and the Hayden Tract.

Permits and power in Culver City

Permits inside city limits. Culver City (ZIP codes 90230, 90231, 90232 and part of 90066) has its own Building Safety Division within the Planning and Development Department, based at City Hall. Applicants open an account on the Culver City Permit Portal to apply and follow an application's status, and inspections are requested by email and may be conducted in person or virtually. For work done by Infinity Electrical, the application and inspection requests are coordinated as part of the job.

What the city's permit list covers. Among the electrical work the city lists as needing a permit are service panels and subpanels, wiring for appliances such as air conditioners and space heaters, pool and spa electrical, and new, replaced or relocated wiring devices; portable plug-in equipment is listed as exempt. Rules vary from one city to the next, so habits from a job across the border do not carry over.

EV chargers. Culver City offers a streamlined, expedited EVSE permit for qualifying residential and non-residential projects. The applicant agrees to an eligibility checklist, Building Safety reviews the submittal, and an electrical inspection follows. A charger that does not fit the expedited route goes in as a regular electrical permit application with plans. Whether the existing panel can carry the charger is a separate question, explained in our article on EV chargers and 100-amp panels.

Edison for most addresses, LADWP for some. According to the city's utility contacts page, Southern California Edison provides electricity to a majority of Culver City, while the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power serves a portion, and residents are told to check each utility for their own address. That difference shows up on any meter job: for an SCE meter, a panel upgrade is requested through SCE's Building, Renovation and Project Planning Portal, and an LADWP meter follows LADWP's own process. New circuits, lighting and repairs on the house side of the meter involve neither utility.

Clean Power Alliance. Culver City voted in 2017 to join Clean Power Alliance, which buys electricity for the community while SCE delivers it, responds to service problems and sends the single bill. The city names 100% Green Power as the default rate, with Lean Power and Clean Power as options customers can switch to. The choice of rate changes where the energy is bought, not how a house is wired or how big its panel needs to be.

The permits and utilities guide explains the whole picture for the three counties we serve.

Around Culver City

Every border of Culver City leads to a different permit office. Mar Vista, Palms, Del Rey, Westchester and Baldwin Hills are City of Los Angeles neighbourhoods, where the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety issues permits and LADWP is the city's electric utility. Ladera Heights, on the southeast side, is mostly unincorporated Los Angeles County, so permits for most addresses there go through LA County Public Works and its EPIC-LA system. Venice, west of Culver City, is another City of Los Angeles neighbourhood, while Santa Monica and Inglewood are separate cities, each with its own building department.

• Mar Vista
• Palms
• Del Rey
• Venice
• Westchester
• Baldwin Hills
• Ladera Heights

See the full list of areas we cover across Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties.