Your electrician in Tustin.

What I see in Tustin homes

Tustin was a town long before most of its neighbors. Columbus Tustin and his partner bought 1,300 acres here in 1868, and buildings along Main Street and El Camino Real in Old Town still date from the 1880s, among them the Hewes House from 1881 and the Stevens House from 1887, with other homes from around 1915 and 1928. The city incorporated in 1927 with a little over 900 residents.

Annexations in the 1950s more than tripled the city's area, and in the 1960s the population grew roughly tenfold, from about 2,000 to over 22,000, as tract after tract replaced the orange groves. Tustin Ranch came next, on 2,257 acres of Irvine Ranch land that the Irvine Company planned in the 1980s and that joined the city in 1986. Newest of all is Tustin Legacy, on the Marine Corps Air Station that closed in 1999, where neighborhoods such as Columbus Square and Columbus Grove now stand.

Each era brings its own list. In the oldest Old Town houses, knob-and-tube and ungrounded circuits can still be live behind plaster, often spliced into newer work by a past owner. The houses and apartment buildings of the postwar decades tend to have small services, two-prong outlets, and kitchens and baths that never got GFCI protection. Tustin Ranch homes are younger and mostly want upgrades such as better lighting, a garage charger, or a spa circuit, and in the Legacy neighborhoods the wiring is new enough that the work is additions.

The one Tustin review on this site comes from a customer who had me out for two jobs and wrote that I did not try to nickel and dime them and left the area clean. A small job gets the same care as a large one.

Permits in Tustin

Tustin's electrical permits come from the Building Division of Community Development at 300 Centennial Way. Applications and plans are submitted through the city's Citizen Self Service portal, and inspections can be requested there at any hour; a request in by 3:00 p.m. is performed the next workday. I handle the submittal, book the inspection, and meet the inspector on site. In the Old Town Cultural Resources District, work that needs a building permit, and especially anything that changes the outside of a house, can also need a Certificate of Appropriateness, so a new panel on an exterior wall or a relocated meter on a historic home may go through design review first; I tell you before we set a date. Tustin homes are on Southern California Edison's system, and for a main service upgrade I line up the utility's disconnect and reconnect as part of the schedule.