Service area sheet
Electrician in Tanglewood
Tanglewood’s 1960s customs are on their second or third remodel, and the panels rarely kept up. Colin Vance runs both our lighting bench and the load conversations.
After hours — hazards dispatch now ($195, waived for Safety Plan members). Scheduling reopens Monday at 7:30 AM.
What Tanglewood built, and how it fails
These houses started life as well-built 1960s customs and have been remodeled in waves ever since — kitchens electrified, studies added, pools and cabanas wired in. The panel usually dates from wave one. A Tanglewood service call routinely finds a 150-amp panel carrying loads that a load calculation books at 180, held together by the fact that nothing peaks simultaneously. Yet.
The era also means aluminum branch circuits in the later-sixties sections, worth a device count during any remodel — the drywall is open anyway, which is the cheap moment.
Lighting is the other half of the route. Sixties ceilings with one box per room, deep eaves that swallow daylight, and owners who want the house to read at night the way it does in the listing photos. Colin draws the plan before a hole is cut, priced per opening.
The remodel that found its ceiling on Hartwood Drive
A kitchen remodel mid-permit: induction range, double ovens, pot filler — and a 1964 150-amp panel already carrying a pool, a cabana mini-split, and two HVAC systems. The GC’s electrician had planned to “make it fit.” The load calc said 212 amps.
Colin ran the numbers at the kitchen island with the owner watching: 200-amp service, panel relocated out of the pantry to the garage wall, and the remodel’s rough-in inspection passed on the first visit. The GC now sends us their load calcs before they bid.
Same license, same trucks, in Tanglewood this week.