Electrical troubleshooting & code corrections

Diagnosis first, then a price. Never the other way around.

Troubleshooting is the work this shop gets called for after somebody else gave up — the dead circuit with no obvious cause, the breaker that trips every evening at six, the lights that flicker only when it rains. Electrical faults are logical; finding them is a method, not a mood.

The method is diagnosis before dollars. We find out what is actually wrong first, then put a number on fixing that. A price quoted on a guess is how a $300 problem turns into a $3,000 one — or how a $3,000 problem gets a $300 bandage.

Code corrections are the same discipline pointed at a list: the home-inspection report before a sale, the city correction notice on a permit, the insurance company's letter about the panel. Line by line, corrected, and signed off with whoever needs to sign.

One safety line, always: anything with a burning smell, a warm outlet, scorch marks or a buzzing panel gets shut off at the breaker and looked at right away. Call for those — do not text.

What this covers

Dead circuits traced and repaired
Nuisance-tripping breakers diagnosed — load, fault or failing breaker
Flickering and dimming diagnosed to the connection causing it
Home-inspection report items corrected before close of escrow
City and insurer correction lists worked line by line
Aluminum-wiring terminations inspected and corrected

The craft argument. Forty-eight years of house wiring in one head is a diagnostic instrument nothing at the supply house can replace. Clyde has usually seen the failure before — sometimes in the same floor plan, three streets over, in 1986.

Get a straight answer

A photo by text is the fastest way to a real number. Small jobs get priced the same day.

(949) 702-0385 Text a photo

CSLB #354550 · C-10 Electrical · Licensed since 1978

Questions people ask

My breaker keeps tripping. Is that urgent?

A breaker doing its job is not an emergency, but a breaker doing it repeatedly is telling you something — overload, a fault, or a breaker wearing out. Anything with heat, smell or scorch marks: shut it off at the panel and call right away.

What does a diagnosis cost?

Small mysteries often get solved from a photo and a text for free. On-site diagnosis is quoted as such up front, and it credits toward the repair when you go ahead — you are never paying twice for the same visit.

Can you fix just the items on my inspection report?

Yes. Escrow correction lists are routine — send the report, get a line-item price on the electrical items, and the sign-off happens on your timeline, not the last day of contingencies.

1978

Year the C-10 license was issued. Still current and active.

Generations on the truck. Clyde qualified it, Shane runs it.

C-10

The only CSLB classification that legally covers electrical work.

Same day

Text a photo and you get a real answer, not a call center.