Infinity Electrical is a licensed electrical contractor for Echo Park, the hilly City of Los Angeles neighborhood around Echo Park Lake, northwest of Downtown. We upgrade panels, rewire older houses, repair faults, add EV charger circuits and wire shops on Sunset and Glendale boulevards, on LADBS permits and LADWP power, including in the Angelino Heights historic district.
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Everything we do in Echo Park, with what each job usually involves here. The photos are from our own jobs.
Service and panel upgrades for older hillside houses and Angelino Heights homes, with the meter location agreed with LADWP and, inside the HPOZ, checked against the district's exterior review before work starts. For the load side of that decision, see whether a heat pump or induction range needs a bigger panel.
Level 2 charger circuits where there is somewhere to park, which on a stairway lot or a garage below the street means planning the route first, and for renters, worked out with the owner before any equipment is bought.
Tracing tripping breakers, dead outlets and flickering lights in houses where additions on several levels share one old service, and in crowded unit panels in older apartment buildings.
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Rewiring Victorian and Craftsman-era houses a section at a time so families can stay at home, with interior work planned so that the exterior of an Angelino Heights house is left as the HPOZ expects.
Fixture and ceiling fan work in older homes, exterior and stair lighting for hillside lots, and storefront lighting for shops and restaurants on Sunset and Glendale boulevards.
Grounded and GFCI-protected outlets where two-prong receptacles remain, and dedicated circuits for kitchens, laundry and air conditioning in small older houses and rented units.
Tenant improvements, new circuits, lighting and panel work for restaurants, cafés and shops in the older commercial buildings along Sunset Boulevard and Glendale Boulevard.
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, apartment buildings, small-lot homes, storefronts and restaurants in Echo Park. Two things shape almost every job here. The first is the ground: Echo Park is a neighborhood of rolling hills and valleys with only a few flat areas, such as the lake basin, and the American Planning Association notes that many houses are designed to fit steep slopes, some following the crest of a hill and some with front doors that open onto public stairways. The second is age: this is one of the city's early suburbs, and Angelino Heights, a hilltop district within it, holds some of the best surviving Victorian-era houses in Los Angeles.
The neighborhood takes its name from its lake. Echo Park Lake began in 1868 as a reservoir fed by a ditch from the Los Angeles River; in 1891 the owners of the surrounding land gave 33 acres to the city, landscaping began in 1892 and the park and boathouse were finished by 1895. In the 1910s the area along Alessandro Avenue, today's Glendale Boulevard, known then as Edendale, was a filmmaking center that included Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, and Pacific Electric Red Cars ran down the middle of Glendale Boulevard until the line through Echo Park ended in June 1955.
Today most homes are rented: renters occupied about 76% of housing units in 2008 figures reported for the neighborhood. Much of the electrical work therefore runs through owners and managers of occupied buildings, alongside owners of older houses on the hills who want more capacity, safer circuits or a charger, and a stream of newer small-lot homes, which a 2005 city ordinance encouraged by allowing several units on one parcel.
Areas we cover in Echo Park
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Echo Park's housing is older, smaller and steeper than in much of the city. The American Planning Association describes typical homes as small, with about three rooms, many built into hillsides. In 2008 figures, renters occupied about three in four housing units.
Echo Park (ZIP code 90026) is entirely inside the City of Los Angeles, so the citywide LADBS and LADWP steps below apply on every street, from the lake to the hilltops. So do they in every neighbourhood around it: Silver Lake, Elysian Valley, Elysian Park, Chinatown, Downtown and Westlake. Unlike a job near a city boundary, there is no question here of which permit office or utility serves the address.
Angelino Heights HPOZ. Angelino Heights, the hilltop district inside Echo Park about two miles northwest of Downtown, became the city's first Historic Preservation Overlay Zone in 1983 and was expanded in 2008. City Planning describes it as a Victorian neighborhood planned for the late-nineteenth-century upper middle class, with Craftsman and Mission Revival houses among the Victorians, and the 1300 block of Carroll Avenue, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, holds the city's highest concentration of nineteenth-century Victorian homes. Inside an HPOZ, City Planning reviews proposed exterior alterations, additions and new construction for all properties in the district. Interior wiring is not an exterior alteration and normally needs only the usual LADBS permit, but an exterior change, such as moving a meter, adding a new service mast or panel on a front wall, or mounting a charger where it can be seen, should be checked with the Angelino Heights preservation plan and City Planning's HPOZ staff before its location is fixed. We raise it at the estimate, so the LADWP meter spot and the historic review don't pull in different directions.
Hillside lots. On a house set into a slope, the meter, the panel and the garage are often on different levels, and a lot that fronts a public stairway may have no driveway at all. The route for a new feeder or a charger circuit, and where LADWP will allow the meter, decide much of a service upgrade here, so we look at both on the first visit before anything is priced.
Permits come from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS). A new circuit, an EV charger, a sub-panel or a panel replacement is permitted work, and LADBS will not send an inspector until the permit is issued. We pull it under our license and meet the inspector at the end.
Power comes from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), not Southern California Edison. For repairs, lighting, new outlets and a charger that fits on the existing panel, LADWP is not involved. For a panel or service upgrade it is: the job starts with LADWP's free meter spot, where an Electric Service Representative visits within five to fifteen business days, confirms where the new equipment may go and leaves a sketch at the job (single-family services up to 320 amps can be requested online). When only the meter needs setting, LADWP says that generally happens within ten working days. If the existing LADWP service can carry the new load there are generally no LADWP charges; work in the street, on a transformer or on the lines can add cost and time, and we find that out before you commit.
The permits and utilities guide explains the whole picture for the three counties we serve.
Every neighbour of Echo Park is part of the City of Los Angeles, so LADBS permits and LADWP power carry over unchanged: Silver Lake to the northwest, Elysian Valley to the north and northeast, Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium to the east, Chinatown and Downtown to the southeast and Westlake to the west and southwest. Angelino Heights is not a neighbour but part of Echo Park itself, and it is where the Angelino Heights HPOZ adds review of exterior work.
See the full list of areas we cover across Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties.
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.
Possibly, if the work changes the outside of the house: inside an HPOZ, City Planning reviews proposed exterior alterations for all properties in the district, and Angelino Heights has been an HPOZ since 1983. Work entirely inside the house, such as rewiring or replacing an indoor panel in the same spot, is not an exterior alteration and goes through the usual LADBS permit. A relocated meter, a new service mast or new equipment on a visible wall should be checked with the preservation plan and City Planning's HPOZ staff before the location is set with LADWP, and we flag this at the estimate.
Echo Park is on LADWP, because it is part of the City of Los Angeles, and its permits come from LADBS. The neighbouring areas, including Silver Lake, Elysian Valley, Chinatown, Downtown and Westlake, are also City of Los Angeles neighbourhoods on LADWP, so there is no boundary to check the way there is near Glendale or unincorporated areas.
Often, yes, but the route decides how. On a hillside lot the circuit may have to run along the outside of the house or under a deck to reach the parking, and a long run can call for a larger wire or a sub-panel near the garage. We check the panel's spare capacity and the route on the first visit; our guide to EV charger permits in Los Angeles covers the LADBS side, and see also EV charger installation.
Not necessarily all at once, but a house that old deserves a careful look before anything is added. Echo Park houses of that age often mix original circuits with decades of later additions, so the plan starts with the panel and a sample of outlets and junction boxes. After that you get a plain list of what can stay, what to replace first and whether the service has room for what you want to add; our notes on home inspection electrical findings cover the usual issues.
Start with your landlord or building manager, who normally arranges electrical repairs in a rented unit; we can then work with the owner to find the fault. In older Echo Park buildings a dead room is often a tripped GFCI elsewhere, a loose connection or a failed circuit in a crowded unit panel. Please don't open the panel yourself; our article on dead outlets with no tripped breaker lists what is safe to check.
Check the building's electrical service before you sign the lease or order equipment: cooking lines, refrigeration and air conditioning can need far more power than an older storefront was wired for. An electrician can compare the equipment list with the existing meters and panels and tell you whether a new circuit is enough or the service needs work, which starts with LADWP. Some buildings already have three-phase service; see leasing a shop that needs three-phase power.
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