Commercial Complete Electrical Rewiring in Santa Monica

We understand that downtime directly impacts your revenue. For most Santa Monica commercial spaces, we implement a carefully phased approach that divides your facility into zones, allowing portions of your business to remain operational while we rewire others. We install temporary power distribution to keep critical systems running—refrigeration, POS terminals, security, and emergency lighting—and we schedule the most disruptive work during your slowest hours or days. For restaurants and retail, we often work overnight or weekends. We provide detailed daily schedules two weeks in advance so you can coordinate staffing, deliveries, and customer communications. Many clients find they can maintain 60–80 percent of normal operations throughout the project.

Santa Monica has many beautiful commercial buildings from the 1920s through 1960s that present unique rewiring challenges. Older buildings often have limited wall cavities, plaster-and-lath construction that requires careful access, outdated conduit systems that may contain asbestos wrap, and structural elements that restrict modern wire routing. We conduct a pre-construction survey to identify historic features worth preserving and work with your architect or the Santa Monica Conservancy when required. Our approach balances code compliance with historic preservation: using surface-mounted raceways or creative routing when necessary, upgrading service capacity to handle modern loads, and documenting all work for landmark compliance. We have successfully rewired dozens of older Santa Monica commercial properties while maintaining their character and meeting current safety standards.

Most older Santa Monica commercial buildings were designed for significantly lower electrical loads than modern businesses require. Today's offices need power for dense workstations, multiple servers, and HVAC upgrades. Restaurants require high-capacity cooking equipment. Retail spaces need extensive lighting, HVAC, and increasingly, EV charging. We perform a comprehensive load study during design, analyzing your current equipment inventory, your five-year growth projections, any planned additions like commercial kitchens or EV chargers, and Title 24 energy efficiency requirements. This study determines whether your existing 200-amp or 400-amp service is adequate or whether upgrading to 600, 800, or even 1200 amps makes sense. We coordinate any service upgrade with Southern California Edison and handle the entire utility coordination process. Upgrading during rewiring costs far less than retrofitting later.

A complete rewiring delivers measurable insurance and compliance benefits. Many commercial property insurers increase premiums significantly for buildings with electrical systems over 30 years old or containing known hazards like aluminum wiring, obsolete panels, or insufficient grounding. A full rewiring with modern copper wiring, current panels with proper GFCI and AFCI protection, upgraded grounding and bonding systems, and documented inspections and permits—typically qualifies you for reduced insurance premiums, often 10–25 percent lower. Additionally, you eliminate code violations that could trigger fines during routine inspections, remove liability concerns from tenant accidents caused by electrical faults, and create comprehensive electrical documentation that satisfies due diligence for property sales or refinancing. We provide a complete inspection report and final signed-off permits that you can submit directly to your insurance carrier.

Absolutely. Smart rewiring goes beyond replacing old wires and addresses the next 20 years of technology evolution. We install oversized conduit and pull boxes at strategic locations, making future cable additions simple and inexpensive. We allocate dedicated circuits and panel capacity for EV charging infrastructure, even if you are not installing chargers immediately. We create separate clean power circuits for IT equipment, isolating sensitive electronics from motor noise and voltage fluctuations. We rough in locations for future solar panels or battery storage systems, including conduit pathways and service panel space. We integrate smart building infrastructure, prewiring for occupancy sensors, automated lighting controls, and building management systems. This forward planning typically adds 10–15 percent to the initial project cost but saves 50–70 percent compared to retrofitting these systems later, and positions your Santa Monica property to attract quality tenants who expect modern infrastructure.

If you are experiencing frequent breaker trips, burning smells, flickering lights, warm outlets or switches, or visible sparking, you need immediate professional assessment. Call us at 323-642-8509 for emergency evaluation. We can typically dispatch a licensed electrician to your Santa Monica location within hours. If we identify imminent safety hazards, we will immediately de-energize dangerous circuits, install temporary safe power distribution to keep essential operations running, and pull an emergency permit for critical repairs. For businesses that cannot close, we will develop an accelerated rewiring schedule, often completing small to mid-sized spaces in 7–10 days by deploying larger crews and working extended hours. While emergency rewiring costs 15–25 percent more than planned projects due to expedited permitting and overtime labor, it is far less expensive than fire damage, injury liability, or extended business closure. We have successfully completed dozens of emergency commercial rewiring projects in Santa Monica, and we understand that speed and safety are your top priorities.