Open living and dining room at dusk with warm LED cove lighting along the ceiling beams, cylinder pendants and floor-to-ceiling windows

Based in San Clemente · South OC to North County San Diego

Electrical work done right, by the person who answers the phone.

Farmer Works Electric is Shane Farmer’s electrical company. Shane grew up in the trade under his dad, Clyde, whose C-10 license (C K ELECTRIC, #354550) dates to 1978. You get an electrician who answers his own phone and explains what he’s doing. Photo quotes by text are free.

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Contracted under C K ELECTRIC · CSLB #354550 · C-10Farmer Works Electric license in processResidential & commercial

1978

Year C K ELECTRIC’s C-10 license #354550 was issued. Still current and active.

Generations in the trade. Clyde holds the license, Shane runs the work.

C-10

California’s license class for electrical contracting.

Same day

Texted photos usually get a real answer back the same day, from Shane and not a call center.

What we do

Panel to plug, and everything on the wire between.

Residential and light commercial electrical across South Orange County. Remodels, retrofits, service calls, and the troubleshooting other electricians gave up on.

Most requested

EV charger installation

Tesla Wall Connector, NACS and J1772. Load calculation first, then a dedicated circuit sized right. Two cars on one service without tripping the main.

Panel upgrades & sub-panels

100A to 200A service upgrades (often step one for an EV charger, solar or a battery), plus sub-panels for garages, shops and ADUs, and replacement of the panels insurers flag.

Solar-ready panels & battery backup

The electrical side of solar: panel capacity, main-breaker derates, battery and generator hookups, all done alongside the solar installer, not after.

Recessed & interior lighting

Layout, cut-in and trim-out. Dimmers that actually match the fixtures so nothing buzzes or flickers at 20 percent.

Rewires & remodel electrical

Whole-home and room-by-room rewires, rough-in through trim-out on remodels, and clean coordination with your GC and inspector.

Outlets, switches & dimmers

Adding circuits, GFCI and AFCI corrections, USB-C receptacles, and smart switches wired with a neutral so they work the way the app promised.

Ceiling fans & bath fans

Fan-rated boxes, bracing, and exhaust fans ducted to the outside instead of into the attic. Quiet units, correct CFM for the room.

Garage: openers, lighting, power

Dedicated opener circuits, ceiling receptacles, LED retrofits, and the MyQ-ready wiring a new LiftMaster head unit wants.

Hardwired cameras & doorbells

Ring, Nest and PoE cameras run on real wire instead of batteries, with a transformer that holds voltage and no drilling through your stucco twice.

Troubleshooting & code corrections

The dead circuit nobody could find, the breaker that trips at 6pm, the inspection correction list. Diagnosis first, then a price.

Commercial & tenant improvements

Panelboards and switchboards, EMT runs, lighting controls, EV stations and equipment hookups for shops, offices and multi-unit buildings.

EV chargers · solar · batteries

Adding an EV charger or solar? It starts at the panel.

Both put a big new load, or a new power source, on the panel. Before anything gets mounted on a wall or a roof, the panel and the service feeding it have to be able to take it. That’s the part we do first.

EV chargers

A 48-amp Wall Connector needs a 60-amp circuit, because chargers are sized at 125% of what they draw. We run the load calculation first, then tell you if the panel carries it, if load management gets you there, or if the service needs an upgrade.

EV charger calculator →

Solar & batteries

A 200-amp panel with a 200-amp main can back-feed about 7.7 kW of inverter output under the 120% rule. Bigger systems need a main-breaker derate, a supply-side connection or a new panel. We’re trained with an emphasis on solar, and we work alongside a dedicated solar installer: they do the array, we make sure the panel can take it.

Solar panel capacity checker →

Load calculation on your actual panel before anything is quoted
100A to 200A service upgrades, coordinated with SDG&E or SCE
Main-breaker derates, sub-panels and load management when they’re the cheaper fix

Panel upgrades Solar-ready & battery backup

New residential breaker panel with the cover off, cables formed neatly around both sides and landed on two columns of breakers — New panel, conductors dressed and landed

SolarEdge inverter, utility meter, AC disconnect and main panel mounted on a gray stucco wall of a house — Solar inverter, meter and AC disconnect on a house

The one everybody calls about

Two cars. One panel. No tripped main.

Most South County garages were wired long before anyone parked an EV in them. The honest answer is not “yes, we’ll add a 60-amp circuit.” It is a load calculation, then a plan.

Load calculation on your actual panel before anything is quoted
Tesla Wall Connectors that power-share so two cars run on one circuit
NACS, J1772 and any hardwired unit: we install what you bought
Permit pulled and inspection handled when the city requires one
If the panel needs upgrading first, you hear that up front, not after demo

Text a photo of your panel

White Tesla Wall Connector mounted on a wall with its charging cable coiled around it and the green status light on — Tesla Wall Connector installed, status light on

From the field

Straight off Shane’s phone.

No staging. Panels with the dead-front off, conduit mid-run, chargers the day they went live. Real jobs Shane has worked, residential and commercial, across Southern California.

Tall commercial panelboard with blue doors open, rows of breakers down the center and branch wiring neatly bundled along both gutters — Commercial panel upgrade, wiring dressed and landed

Parallel runs of EMT conduit with matched bends crossing a steel roof deck and dropping down a block wall into junction boxes — Parallel EMT runs bent and strapped on a steel deck

Three gray commercial panelboards with doors open and a tall enclosure, fed by parallel EMT conduit running along a block wall — Three panelboards fed in EMT along a block wall

Lighting control relay panel with a control board on the left and a column of numbered relays wired with color-coded conductors — Lighting control relay panel, every relay labeled

Gray Kohler automatic transfer switch mounted on a wall between a fire alarm panel and a distribution panel, all fed in EMT — Generator automatic transfer switch beside the distribution

Gray multi-unit meter stack in a utility room with three meters set and unit labels written on the covers — Meter stack for a multi-unit building

A small house with two new meter sockets on the wall, a ladder against the roof and an electrician working at the service mast — Service upgrade underway, new meter sockets set

See all 38 field photos →

The finished side

The rooms people remember are wired for it.

Layered lighting on dimmers, a backlit mirror, pendants hung at the right height over the island. It all needs a box in the right place, the right driver and a dimmer that matches, decided before the drywall goes up.

Modern kitchen with cove lighting above the cabinets, LED-lit glass-front cabinets, under-cabinet lighting and two polished nickel dome pendants over a taupe island

Cove, in-cabinet & under-cabinet light

Cove lighting & pendants

Bathroom vanity with a large backlit LED mirror, two fluted glass wall sconces and toe-kick LED lighting under a floating vanity

Backlit mirrors, sconces & toe-kick

Dining area with a wood table under a rectangular cage linear chandelier, open to a kitchen with glass pendants and recessed lights

Chandeliers, pendants & recessed

Planning a room? Lay out your recessed lights or plan your kitchen circuits.

Free tools

Run the numbers before anyone quotes you.

The same math an electrician does before pricing a job, with the arithmetic shown and the sources cited. No sign-up.

EV charger circuit & charging-cost calculator

Breaker, wire and charger size for your car, plus miles added per hour and the cost per charge on SDG&E or SCE.

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Can my panel handle it? Home load calculator

The NEC load calculation for an existing house. See if an EV charger, heat pump, induction range or ADU fits.

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Solar-ready panel checker (the 120% rule)

How big a solar or battery system your existing panel can accept before it needs an upgrade or a derate.

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Recessed lighting layout calculator

How many recessed lights a room needs, how far apart and how far off the walls, drawn to scale.

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Kitchen remodel circuit planner

Pick your appliances and get every circuit (code, install-guide and recommended) with breaker, wire, GFCI/AFCI and panel spaces.

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Electrical permit checker for South Orange County

Pick your city and the job to see whether it needs a permit, who issues it, and the state rules that apply.

Open the tool →

All 11 free tools → · 7 guides · Glossary

Why this truck and not another one

A license is the floor. This is the rest.

A license you can look up

The work is contracted under C K ELECTRIC, CSLB #354550, issued in March 1978 and active for 48 years. You can look it up in ten seconds, and you should do it for every contractor you hire.

You talk to the person doing the work

No dispatcher, no upsell script, no "technician" who has to call the office for pricing. Shane picks up, Shane shows up, Shane does it.

Trade work that gets rehired

A licensed general contractor used Shane across a whole-home remodel (rough-in, trim-out, inspection) and keeps calling back. Trade work holds up to a different level of scrutiny than a service call.

Diagnosis before dollars

We find out what is actually wrong first. A price on a guess is how a $300 problem turns into a $3,000 one.

Clean work you will never see

Wire secured, boxes flush, panel labeled and legible. The parts behind the drywall are the parts that tell you who was in there.

If it isn't right, we come back

Straightforward, and at no charge. You should not have to negotiate with an electrician about a switch that stopped working two weeks later.

How a job runs

Four steps, no surprises.

STEP 01

Text or call

A photo of the panel, the fixture, or the burn mark tells us more than a paragraph. Fastest way to get a real answer.

STEP 02

Look at it

Small jobs get priced over text. Anything real gets a walk-through, because quoting electrical sight-unseen is how people get burned.

STEP 03

Written number

Line-item pricing: material and labor separated, so you can see exactly what you are paying for and what is optional.

STEP 04

Do it and clean up

Permit pulled if the work needs one, panel labeled, drywall dust vacuumed, and photos of anything now buried in a wall.

Where we work

Based in San Clemente. South OC to North County San Diego.

Home base is San Clemente, and the work runs from Lake Forest down the 5 to North County San Diego. If your town is not on this list, ask anyway.

San Clemente Mission Viejo Dana Point San Juan Capistrano Laguna Niguel Ladera Ranch Rancho Santa Margarita Aliso Viejo Lake Forest Coto de Caza North County San Diego

The license behind the work

C.K. is a person.

Clyde Kent Farmer took out California electrical license #354550 in March of 1978. He’s the C.K. in C K ELECTRIC. 48 years later that license is still current, still active, and still his.

Shane grew up around the trade, hearing about the jobs and watching how seriously his dad took the work. Clyde always wanted a family company he could pass down. Today Shane runs the work: remodels, service calls, EV chargers, panels, solar-ready upgrades and the troubleshooting nobody else wanted.

Farmer Works Electric is the company Shane is building now. It is in the process of getting its own license. Until then, the electrical work is contracted under C K ELECTRIC, license #354550.

“My dad spent 50 years building the foundation. Now I get to help carry it forward, and I think that’s pretty cool.”

— Shane Farmer

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License holder

Clyde Kent Farmer

On the tools

Shane Farmer

Contracted under

C K ELECTRIC · CSLB #354550 · C-10

Issued

March 23, 1978

What people say

Built on referrals.

“We used CK Electric and Sons across a whole-home remodel: rough-in, panel work, lighting, trim-out. Shane prices honestly, itemizes his bids, and the work passes inspection without a list. I hire a lot of subs. He is one of the few I do not have to check behind.”

Blake Lundquist

Lundquist Built Inc. · Licensed general contractor · San Clemente

Straight answers

Questions we get every week.

Whose license is the work under?

The work is contracted under C K ELECTRIC, C-10 license #354550, issued in March 1978 and still active. Farmer Works Electric's own license is in process. You can look up #354550 at cslb.ca.gov in about ten seconds, and you should.

What does it cost to ask?

Nothing. Text a photo of the panel or the problem and small jobs usually come back with a real number the same day. When a job needs on-site diagnosis, that gets quoted up front and credits toward the repair.

Two EVs, one garage: can it work?

Often, and often without a service upgrade. Power-sharing chargers and an honest load calculation solve most South County garages; when the panel really is the limit, you hear that first, with numbers.

Who shows up at the door?

Shane, the same person you texted and the same person who priced it. Clyde comes along when an old house calls for a second pair of eyes.

Send a photo. Get a real answer.

Text is fastest, and a photo quote is free. Call if it is urgent, if you smell something burning, or if a breaker will not reset.

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Electrical work contracted under C K ELECTRIC · CSLB Lic. #354550 (C-10) · Farmer Works Electric license in process