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Undersized panels and old fuse boxes replaced with correctly rated service, so the house can carry a modern load without nuisance trips.
New circuits, service masts and full rewires — including the aluminium and knob-and-tube branch circuits still in plenty of older California homes.
Rough-in through final trim on new builds, ADUs and additions, scheduled around the other trades so inspection day is not a surprise.
Interior and exterior lighting planned as a layout rather than a fixture count — spacing, switching and colour temperature decided before anything is cut in.
Recessed cans added to finished ceilings and dated fixtures swapped for LED — brighter rooms and a lower bill, with the drywall patched properly.
Fans hung and braced correctly, including vaulted ceilings and rooms with no existing fan box, wired to the switching you actually want.
Heavy and high-hung fixtures installed over stairwells and dining rooms — rated boxes, proper support, and hung level the first time.
Vanity bars, backlit LED mirrors and GFCI-protected circuits, wired to code for a wet location and finished to match the remodel.
Added outlets, GFCI and AFCI protection, dimmers and smart switches set up so the app and the wall switch agree with each other.
Level 2 home chargers on a dedicated circuit, with a load calculation done first rather than assuming the panel has the capacity.
Tenant improvements, track and display lighting, dedicated equipment circuits and repairs — scheduled around trading hours where we can.
Bucket truck work on pole lights, wall packs and sign lighting — dark lots relamped, retrofitted to LED, or repaired at the base and the head.
If it carries current, we work on it. Anything below can be quoted on its own or rolled into a larger job.
Repairs, upgrades and installs for houses, ADUs and remodels.
Fit-outs, service work and maintenance for shops, offices and light industrial units.
The high work most electricians turn down, because we have the lift to reach it.
The systems that matter when the power goes out or something has to be signed off.
Yes. OD Electric holds California contractor’s licence CSLB #1158872 and carries insurance for both residential and commercial work. You can look the licence up yourself on the CSLB website — we’d encourage it, and not just for us. Anyone quoting you electrical work in California should be happy to hand over a number you can check.
Because it is doing its job. A breaker that trips repeatedly is reporting a real fault — usually an overloaded circuit, a short somewhere in the wiring, or an appliance that has started to fail. The one genuinely unsafe response is to keep resetting it and hope. If it trips more than once, leave it off and call someone.
Often, yes — and it depends on both the job and the city. Panel upgrades, service changes and new circuits usually need one; swapping a light fixture usually doesn’t. Because we work across San Jose, Modesto, Stockton and Sacramento County, and none of them handle it identically, we check for your address and tell you at estimate stage rather than after.
We give you a written price before the work starts, and that’s the price you pay. What we won’t do is quote a panel upgrade over the phone without seeing the panel — the honest answer to “how much” is nearly always “let me look at it first”, and any number given sight-unseen is a number that will change.
Usually, yes. It comes down to the spare capacity in your panel and the run from the panel to where you park. We do a load calculation before quoting rather than assuming the panel can take it — that calculation is also what tells you whether you need a panel upgrade alongside the charger, which is much better to know at the start.
The Bay Area — San Jose, Pleasanton, Dublin, Livermore, Brentwood — the Central Valley through Tracy, Manteca, Stockton, Modesto and Turlock, and Greater Sacramento including Elk Grove. If your town isn’t on that list it’s still worth asking; the edges are softer than the list suggests.