Electrician in Westwood

What we do in Westwood

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

Panel upgrades in Westwood

Service and panel upgrades for Holmby Westwood, Comstock Hills and University Crest houses whose additions have outgrown the original service, and meter-bank replacements for 1940s and 50s apartment buildings on streets like Midvale and Kelton, starting with the LADWP meter spot.

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EV charger installation in Westwood

Chargers in condominium garages along Wilshire, where the association reviews the request under state law, and in the parking garages of North Westwood Village apartment buildings, with the building's meter bank and house panel checked before a circuit is promised.

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Electrical repair & troubleshooting in Westwood

Breakers that trip in student apartments when several people run space heaters, chargers and kitchen appliances at once, dead outlets on two-wire circuits in courtyard buildings, and faults traced through older house panels.

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Rewiring in Westwood

Rewiring Period Revival houses in Holmby Westwood room by room, and unit-by-unit rewiring of post-war apartment buildings so the rest of the building can stay occupied during the work.

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Lighting & ceiling fans in Westwood

Common-area, corridor and garage lighting for apartment and condominium buildings, recessed lighting and fixture work in condo remodels, and lighting for Westwood Village storefronts, keeping in mind that an exterior sign in the Village needs Planning approval first.

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Outlets, GFCI & new circuits in Westwood

GFCI protection, grounded outlets and new dedicated circuits for kitchens, bathrooms and in-unit laundry in condos and apartments, coordinated with the HOA or owner when a circuit has to cross common walls.

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Commercial electrical in Westwood

Tenant improvements, lighting and circuits for restaurants, shops and offices in Westwood Village and along Westwood Boulevard south of Wilshire, planned around the Village specific plan's rules for signs and screened mechanical equipment.

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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 Westwood

Infinity Electrical Inc. (CSLB #1100231) is a licensed electrical contractor for houses, condominiums, apartment buildings and shops in Westwood, the City of Los Angeles neighborhood that runs from Sunset Boulevard down to Santa Monica Boulevard on the Westside. Our work here covers troubleshooting and repairs, panel and meter-bank upgrades, EV chargers, rewiring, lighting and commercial tenant work, on LADBS permits and LADWP power.

Westwood was planned as a single development. Arthur Letts bought the old Wolfskill Ranch in 1919, the Janss Investment Corporation took it over and began developing it in 1922, and in 1925 the University of California announced that its new Los Angeles campus would be built there. The campus and Westwood Village opened together in the fall of 1929. Nearly a century later the neighborhood still sorts itself the way the Janss plan laid it out: single-family streets on three sides of the campus, apartment blocks set aside southwest of the campus, a shopping village at its foot and, since the 1950s, a wall of residential towers along Wilshire.

That plan shapes the electrical work. City Planning's demographic estimates put about two out of three occupied homes in Westwood in renters' hands and 86% of all units in multi-unit buildings, so a typical job here involves more than the person who calls: an HOA board, a landlord, a building manager or a garage full of other residents' cars. We plan for that from the first visit, and we look at the panel, the meter room and the route before pricing the work.

What's common in Westwood homes

Westwood's buildings fall into a few clear groups, and SurveyLA's survey of the neighborhood dates most of them. Census estimates add the rest: more than half of all units were built between 1960 and 1989, and about 28% before 1960.

• Holmby Westwood. About a thousand single-family houses just below Sunset Boulevard, between the campus and the Los Angeles Country Club, built from the late 1920s into the 1950s in Period Revival styles. Many have been enlarged over the years, so the original service often feeds an addition, a converted garage or a sub-panel that came later. Load calculations, service upgrades and partial rewiring are the usual jobs.
• Comstock Hills and University Crest. Smaller single-family districts: Comstock Hills on sloping lots just west of the Country Club between Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards (mid-1920s to the 1950s), and University Crest in the rolling hills west of UCLA between Sunset Boulevard and Montana Avenue (1930s to the 1950s). Expect panels that have outlived several remodels.
• North Westwood Village. Mainly multi-family housing west of Gayley Avenue, north of Weyburn Avenue and east of Veteran Avenue, where many UCLA students live. Work here is usually unit circuits, shared laundry rooms and the house panels that feed corridors and common lighting.
• Apartment streets south of Wilshire. The Janss company set aside the area between Veteran and Gayley for apartments, and some of the oldest survive: two- to four-story apartment houses and courtyard complexes on Midvale and Kelton avenues from the late 1940s and early 1950s, and late-1930s courtyard apartments near Wilshire and Beverly Glen. Buildings of that age can still have original meter banks, small unit panels or two-wire circuits without a ground, which we check before adding outlets or load. The Greek-letter houses of Fraternity Row on Gayley and Sorority Row on Hilgard, many from the late 1920s and 1930s, are shared buildings too, where wiring work is arranged with the house corporation or owner.
• Wilshire Corridor towers. The stretch of Wilshire known as “Condo Row” holds Mid-Century Modern high-rises from about 1951 to 1963, among them Wilshire Manor, Wilshire Terrace, the Marie Antoinette Tower and the Holmby Wilshire. Work here is unit panels and circuits inside the condos, common-area lighting and chargers in the shared garages, always arranged through the association and building management.

Permits and power in Westwood

Westwood (ZIP codes 90024, with parts of 90025 and 90049) is entirely inside the City of Los Angeles, so the citywide permit and LADWP steps below apply. The edge to know is on the east: past the Los Angeles Country Club is the City of Beverly Hills, which issues its own permits through its Development Services permit center and gets its power from Southern California Edison. On the blocks near that line we confirm the city from the address or the electric bill before anything is priced. (The UCLA campus has its own ZIP code, 90095, for campus departments; our work in Westwood is in the privately owned homes, buildings and businesses around it.)

Westwood has no Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. A Holmby-Westwood HPOZ was proposed for the Period Revival neighborhood between UCLA and the Los Angeles Country Club, and SurveyLA had identified more than a thousand properties there as a potential historic district, but work on the HPOZ stopped in September 2016 and it was never adopted. City Planning's Westwood plan page lists seven overlays and no HPOZ. In practice, that means relocating a meter or putting a new panel on the outside of a Holmby Westwood house is settled through LADBS and the LADWP meter spot, without a separate historic review of the exterior.

What Westwood does have is a stack of specific plans. In Westwood Village, no exterior sign may be permitted or installed until the Director of Planning approves it or finds it eligible for administrative review, the Village plan requires mechanical equipment to be screened from public view, and interior remodeling that adds no floor area isn't a “project” under the plan at all. The North Westwood Village and Westwood multi-family plans apply to new buildings and to additions that raise height, floor area or unit count, and both require rooftop equipment such as air-conditioning units (solar panels excepted) to be fully screened from neighboring homes. The Wilshire-Westwood Scenic Corridor plan covers the residentially zoned stretch of Wilshire between the Country Club and Glendon Avenue; its rules deal with height, density, parking, landscaping and shadows rather than the wiring of existing towers.

On the utility side, LADWP lists a Commercial EV Charger Rebate Program among its business programs, and its customer newsletter in May 2026 still described a rebate for home chargers. LADWP's residential rebate page ties eligibility to an account holder with an active residential meter and a charger from its qualifying list, which is worth checking in a condo garage where a charger may be fed from the building's own meter. Program terms change, so we look up the current rules before a charger is specified rather than assume a rebate applies.

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.

Around Westwood

Bel Air across Sunset Boulevard to the north, Century City and West Los Angeles to the south, and Sawtelle and Brentwood to the west beyond the 405 are all City of Los Angeles neighborhoods, so LADBS permits and LADWP power carry over unchanged. Beverly Hills, on the east, is an independent city with its own Building and Safety permit center and Southern California Edison as its utility.

• Bel Air
• Beverly Hills
• Century City
• West Los Angeles
• Sawtelle
• Brentwood

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