We're CleanPowerSF customers. Who handles a bigger electrical service?
PG&E. CleanPowerSF buys and supplies the electricity, and customers are enrolled automatically with the option to opt out, but PG&E continues to deliver it, maintain the lines, turn power on and off and respond to outages. A service upgrade is therefore coordinated with PG&E by your electrician, as it would be without CleanPowerSF.
Our house was built all-electric in 2023. Can we add a gas line for a range later?
No. San Francisco requires buildings whose permit applications were filed on or after June 1, 2021 to be fully electric, and DBI states that once construction is complete an all-electric building must remain all-electric. An induction range on a properly sized circuit is the route instead.
Where do carbon monoxide alarms go in a house built over a garage?
DBI's affidavit requires them on every floor with a fuel-burning appliance or an attached garage, and on every floor above and below a floor with a fuel-burning appliance. In a Sunset house where the furnace or water heater sits on the garage level, that means the garage floor and the living floor above it, plus any floor below.
Can a landlord hand out plug-in heaters instead of fixing the wall heater?
No. The Rent Board's summary of the Housing Code says portable space heaters do not meet the heating requirement, and the Housing Code requires heaters in rental units to be permanently attached and properly wired. A tenant can ask DBI to inspect, and a Notice of Violation orders the landlord to provide approved heat.
How is an electrical inspection booked in San Francisco now?
For a permit issued in PermitSF, with a number starting in letters such as ELEC, the permit holder requests inspections online from the PermitSF dashboard. Permits from before PermitSF, with numbers that start with digits, are scheduled through DBI's phone system. Wiring has to be inspected before it is covered, so book it before the drywall crew is due.
