Electrician in San Anselmo, Marin County

Yes. Towery Electric provides licensed C-10 electrical service throughout San Anselmo and the surrounding Ross Valley, including panel upgrades, knob-and-tube and aluminum wiring assessment and remediation, generator and EV charger installation, lighting, and general residential work. San Anselmo’s older housing stock means wiring-age and capacity assessment is often the starting point. We pull permits and work to the current California Electrical Code, and you can verify our license with the CSLB using number 989290.

Many were built for a fraction of today’s electrical demand and may still have original or early wiring. Modern loads — air conditioning, EV charging, heat pumps, and today’s appliances — can exceed an older service, and aging wiring like knob-and-tube or early aluminum has safety and insurance implications. That’s why a capacity and wiring-age assessment is a common first step here: it establishes what your home can currently support and what, if anything, needs updating before adding load or selling.

In homes of San Anselmo’s vintage we sometimes find knob-and-tube wiring, early aluminum branch circuits, ungrounded outlets, and undersized services. Not every older home has issues, but these are worth checking because they affect safety, insurability, and resale, and they tend to surface during a sale or insurance review regardless. Identifying them proactively lets you plan any remediation deliberately. An assessment tells you whether your specific home has these conditions or is in good shape for its age.

Yes. We pull the required permits and schedule inspections for electrical work in San Anselmo, working to the current California Electrical Code. Permitted work is especially important on established homes because it documents that upgrades were done correctly, protecting both safety and resale value. Unpermitted work tends to cause problems during a future sale or insurance claim, so handling it properly from the start is the sound approach for a home you may eventually sell in a market where buyers scrutinize such things.

Yes. Standby generators are a common request given the Ross Valley’s PSPS exposure, and EV charger installation is increasingly frequent. Both begin with assessing your service capacity — particularly relevant in San Anselmo’s older homes — to determine whether the existing panel supports the new load or whether an upgrade or load management is needed. We handle the full scope from that capacity assessment through permitted installation and inspection, as part of our residential service in the area.

Call us to describe what you need and schedule a visit. For San Anselmo’s older homes especially, an on-site look at the panel, service, and relevant wiring produces a far more accurate estimate than a phone guess, because capacity and wiring age drive so much of the scope. We’ll walk the work with you, explain what’s needed and why, and provide a written estimate you can rely on. That’s the honest basis for pricing work on an established home whose electrical history may be partly unknown.