Questions we get every week.

Yes. CK Electric and Sons holds California contractor license #354550, classification C-10 (Electrical), issued March 23, 1978 and currently active. You can verify it yourself at cslb.ca.gov — search the license number. We also carry the state-required $25,000 contractor’s bond.

Usually, yes — but it depends on your panel, not your driveway. We run a load calculation on your existing service first. Many South County homes can run two Tesla Wall Connectors in power-sharing mode on a single circuit. Some need a panel upgrade first, and if that is your situation you will hear it before anyone starts cutting.

Panel upgrades, new circuits and service changes generally do. Swapping a fixture or a switch generally does not. We tell you which one you are looking at, pull the permit when it is required, and meet the inspector. An electrician who offers to skip the permit is telling you something about the rest of their work.

Line item. Material and labor are listed separately so you can see what the parts cost and what the time cost. Small jobs can be priced from a photo over text. Anything structural, anything at the panel, or anything inside a wall gets looked at in person first.

Text. Send a photo of the panel, the fixture, or whatever is not working to (949) 702-0385. A photo answers questions that ten minutes on the phone will not, and you will usually get a reply the same day.

Regularly. Licensed builders use us for remodel rough-in and trim-out, and we are used to working a schedule, coordinating around other trades, and handling correction lists directly with the inspector.

A breaker doing its job is not an emergency, but a breaker doing it repeatedly is telling you something. Anything with a burning smell, a warm outlet, scorch marks or a buzzing panel should be shut off at the breaker and looked at right away. Call, do not text, for those.

It is, and you do not have to take our word for it. CSLB license #354550 shows an issue date of March 23, 1978 on the state's own site, with Clyde Kent Farmer as the holder. It has been renewed continuously ever since — the current term runs through January 2027.

Shane Farmer — the person you texted, the person who quoted it, and the person who does the work. On the jobs where two sets of hands or fifty years of pattern recognition help, Clyde comes too.

Based in Mission Viejo, working across South Orange County: San Clemente, Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano, Laguna Niguel, Ladera Ranch, Rancho Santa Margarita, Aliso Viejo, Lake Forest and Coto de Caza. North San Diego County on referral. If your town is not listed, ask anyway.

We do not run a 24/7 dispatch line, and we will not pretend to. If something is actively dangerous — sparking, smoke, a hot panel — shut it off at the main breaker and call. If there is fire or immediate danger, that is 911 first, electrician second.