Electrical troubleshooting & code corrections

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

Electrician in a cap working at a meter and panel on an orange stucco wall of a house, with conduit running up the wall — From Shane's jobs: working a residential service panel

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. 48 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

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

From Shane’s jobs

Pull-out disconnect on a white wall with liquidtight flexible conduit running down and across to a tall outdoor equipment cabinet — Disconnect and liquidtight run to outdoor equipment

Older gray panelboard with a directory card and two columns of numbered breakers, wires visible around the enclosure — An older panelboard, cover on

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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, so 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 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.