Yes – please do. Ask for our license number and certificate of insurance, and we'll send both over before anyone touches a wire. Any electrician in Hollywood should hand that to you without hesitation. It's the same paperwork the permit office will want to see anyway, so you're not asking for anything unusual.

Call and tell us exactly what's happening – a burning smell, a scorched outlet, sparking, or a breaker that won't reset. If it sounds dangerous, we'll walk you through killing power at the panel first. Then we'll be straight with you about when we can be there, instead of promising a window we can't keep.

A few things drive it: the age and condition of the existing wiring, the size of the service coming into the building, where the panel sits and how far it has to be moved, whether the walls are already open, and the permits and inspections your job needs. We look at all of it in person, then put a clear written estimate in your hands before we start.

Yes – Level 2 chargers in home and building garages, plus standby generator installs, repair, and maintenance. The first thing we check is whether your existing panel has room for the new load. Plenty of older Hollywood houses need a panel upgrade before either one goes in, and we'll tell you that up front rather than after the equipment arrives.

On most remodels, we're on site twice. Rough-in happens after framing and before drywall, while the walls are open – that's when boxes get set, circuits get pulled, and outlets and lighting get placed. Trim-out comes after paint and cabinets, when devices and fixtures go in. Inspections sit between those stages, so tell us your drywall date early.

Not always. What passed inspection decades ago often doesn't pass today. Two-prong ungrounded outlets, cloth-wrapped wiring, aluminum branch circuits, and fuse boxes were all legal at one point and still show up in older Hollywood houses. Existing wiring can sometimes stay as-is until you touch it – but once a remodel opens that wall, the circuit has to come up to current code.

It depends on the scope - swapping a panel is a different job than rewiring a whole house room by room. As a rough guide, panel upgrades typically cost more than a same-day repair but far less than a full rewire, and commercial build-outs are priced separately based on load and square footage. We walk the site first and hand you a written number before any work begins, so there's no surprise on the invoice.