Panel upgrades in Tustin
Service upgrades for Tustin houses past the 30-year mark, starting with a load calculation, then the city permit and Edison's part lined up in order, with a Certificate of Appropriateness question settled first in Old Town.
What you can call us for in Tustin
- Troubleshooting & repairs
- Tripping breakers & dead outlets
- Lights & ceiling fans
- Outlets, GFCI & new circuits
- Panels & subpanels
- EV chargers
- Rewiring & remodels
- Commercial
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What we do in Tustin
Everything we do in Tustin, with what each job usually involves here. The photos are from our own jobs.
EV charger installation in Tustin
Home chargers in Tustin garages and driveways, and charging at shops, offices and apartment parking planned around the city's expedited checklist for non-residential charging stations.
Electrical repair & troubleshooting in Tustin
Tracing tripping breakers, dead outlets and flickering lights in Tustin's older tracts, condos and fully occupied rental buildings.
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Rewiring in Tustin
Replacing ungrounded and patched wiring in Old Town homes and older tracts, planned from inside where the Cultural Resources District limits changes to the exterior.
Lighting & ceiling fans in Tustin
LED fixtures, ceiling fans and exterior lighting for Tustin homes, with fixture choices on historic Old Town facades checked against the district's rules before they go up.
Outlets, GFCI & new circuits in Tustin
Grounded and GFCI-protected outlets for kitchens, baths, laundry rooms and exteriors in Tustin rentals and older homes, plus 240-volt circuits for dryers, ranges and air conditioning.
Mobilehome electrical in Tustin
Repairs, added circuits and panel or feeder work for mobile home owners in Tustin parks, after confirming which equipment belongs to the home and which agency inspects.
Commercial electrical in Tustin
Tenant improvements, equipment circuits and lighting for shops, restaurants and offices in Old Town, along Red Hill Avenue and in Tustin Legacy's commercial areas.
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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Tustin is one of Orange County's older towns wrapped around one of its newest districts. Columbus Tustin bought part of the former Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana in 1868 and laid out the town over the next few years, and it incorporated in 1927 with roughly 900 residents. Its original core, now called Old Town, still has Main Street and El Camino Real at its centre. A few miles south, the former Marine Corps Air Station has been turning into Tustin Legacy, a planned district of new neighbourhoods, schools and shopping on land that was a military airfield until 1999.
Between those two sit decades of tract homes, apartments, condos and mobile homes. The 2020 census counted 80,276 people and 28,223 housing units, and just over half of the occupied homes were rented. The city's housing element puts about 64 percent of the housing stock past the 30-year mark as of 2020, which is the age when it expects major repairs to become more common. For electrical work, that means a lot of panels, outlets and circuits sized for an earlier set of appliances, now asked to carry chargers, heat pumps and kitchen remodels.
Infinity Electrical serves Tustin homeowners, landlords, mobile home owners and businesses. An estimate starts with the address itself (city or county), then the existing service and panel and the loads the customer is planning, and the permit and Edison's part of the job are coordinated where the work needs them. Customer assistance is available in English and Spanish.
Tustin at a glance
- Permits
- City of Tustin Building Division, part of Community Development; applications, plans and inspection requests through the city's Citizen Self Service portal
- ZIP codes
- 92780 to 92782
- Jurisdiction
- An independent city, Orange County
Areas we cover in Tustin
- Old Town Tustin
- Tustin Ranch
- Tustin Legacy
- Red Hill Avenue corridor
- Neighbourhoods off Newport Avenue
- Near the 5 and the 55
Good to know
- Electrical work inside city limits is permitted by the City of Tustin Building Division, with applications and inspection requests through its Citizen Self Service portal
- Exterior work that needs a building permit in Old Town's Cultural Resources District also needs a Certificate of Appropriateness
- About 64 percent of Tustin's homes were more than 30 years old in 2020, according to the city's housing element
- North Tustin is unincorporated county land, so a Tustin mailing address does not always mean a City of Tustin permit
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What's common in Tustin homes
Tustin's housing is mixed: the city's housing element reports that a little over half of its homes are single-unit buildings, about a fifth are in buildings of two to nine units, nearly a quarter are in buildings of ten units or more, and about 2 percent are mobile homes.
- Old Town houses. Old Town has the city's oldest homes, some in the Cultural Resources District, where historic buildings can qualify for the Mills Act property tax program in exchange for a ten-year preservation commitment. Older wiring here can mean ungrounded circuits and panels that have been extended over time; rewiring is usually planned from inside so the street side of the house stays as it is.
- Thirty-plus-year-old tracts and condos. With roughly 17,800 homes past 30 years old as of 2020, many Tustin houses, townhomes and condos still have the panel they were built with. Adding air conditioning, an induction range or a charger starts with a load calculation, which decides between a new circuit and a panel upgrade.
- Renters and landlords. The 2020 census found 52.4 percent of Tustin's occupied homes were rented, and the housing element notes that renter households are far more likely than owners to be overcrowded. Fuller apartments put more load on kitchen and laundry circuits, and tripping breakers, missing GFCI protection and worn outlets are common requests from landlords.
- Mobile homes. The housing element counts about 524 mobile homes in the city, and Tustin's zoning has a dedicated Mobile Home Park district with a minimum park size of five acres. Electrical work in a park can involve the home's own panel and feeder as well as the park's distribution, so the line between the two, and the agency that inspects, is confirmed first.
- Tustin Legacy and newer neighbourhoods. Recently built homes at Tustin Legacy are more likely to have a service sized for current loads, so the requests there lean toward additions: EV chargers, outdoor kitchens, landscape and security lighting. Commercial and business areas in the plan bring tenant improvements for shops, restaurants and offices.
Permits and power in Tustin
The City of Tustin (ZIP codes 92780 to 92782) runs its own Building Division, which reviews plans, issues permits and inspects construction from remodels to new buildings. Applications and inspection requests go through the city's Citizen Self Service portal, or by appointment at City Hall on Centennial Way. Infinity Electrical does not install solar; on a house that already has it, new circuits and panel work are planned around the existing system.
Chargers at businesses and apartment parking. Tustin publishes an eligibility checklist for expedited permits for electric vehicle charging stations at non-residential buildings and facilities. It asks for a site plan showing the route from the panel to the charger, an electrical plan with a single-line diagram, a load calculation and the charger's listing, so a shop, office or apartment parking project starts with the existing service and the parking layout rather than the charger alone.
Edison's part. Southern California Edison lists Tustin among the cities in its service area, and SCE delivers the power and owns the meter. A panel replacement or service upgrade therefore has an Edison step as well as a city inspection, and the two are put in the right order. A new circuit or fixture that the existing panel can carry stays on the customer's side of the meter.
Who supplies the energy. Tustin is not one of the cities the Orange County Power Authority names as members (Buena Park, Fullerton, Irvine and, most recently, Fountain Valley), so Edison normally both supplies and delivers the electricity. Next door in Irvine the authority is the default supplier; for a panel or meter job the practical difference is small, because Edison owns the meter in both cities.
The permits and utilities guide explains the whole picture for the three counties we serve.
Around Tustin
Tustin's edges are easy to cross without noticing. Irvine lies to the south and east, and part of the Tustin Legacy plan area is inside it; Irvine issues its own permits and is an Orange County Power Authority member. Santa Ana is to the west and Orange to the north, each with its own building department and both served by Edison. North Tustin, also to the north, is unincorporated, so permits there come from OC Development Services rather than any city. The parcel, not the street name or ZIP code, decides which office applies.
See the full list of areas we cover across Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties.
