What working in Kenner is actually like
Kenner splits cleanly into two electrical markets and they need different things. The residential side is subdivision housing built largely between the 1960s and the 1980s, running north from Airline toward the lake through Chateau Estates, Driftwood and Susan Park. Like Metairie it is slab construction and it straddles the aluminum branch wiring era, but Kenner skews slightly later, which means more early NM copper and more original 100-amp panels that were adequate in 1978 and are not adequate now that the same house runs two condensers and an electric dryer.
The other market is the airport corridor. Louis Armstrong International, the Pontchartrain Center and the hotel and hospitality cluster around them make Kenner disproportionately commercial for its size, and that work has a different rhythm: three-phase service, State Fire Marshal plan review on top of parish permitting, and schedules that have to fit around occupancy rather than around a family's evening. A hotel cannot close for a lighting retrofit and a restaurant on Williams cannot lose a Friday, so most of what we do on that side of Kenner happens overnight.
Rivertown is the third thing, and it is genuinely different from both. The historic district along the river has housing old enough to carry knob-and-tube and cloth-insulated conductor, on smaller lots, frequently with the panel in an awkward interior location left over from an earlier service. Add the lakefront exposure at Laketown and along the north end of Williams, where salt air accelerates corrosion at weatherheads and exterior devices, and Kenner ends up needing a wider range of work than a suburb of its size usually would.
