the 8500 block of S Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90044 (single-family home)
Swap every bulb.
A worker on a stable ladder twists an LED lamp into a switched-off fixture at the 8500 block of S Vermont Ave, replacing the old bulb, then photographs the lamp label. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $260 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofbefore/after photos per fixture + lumen/wattage label photo + fixture count + GPS
- Open until2026-12-10
- Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Replace every incandescent and CFL bulb in this home with LED at the 8500 block of S Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90044. A full LED swap is the simplest LBC Energy-Petal repair a family here can fund in one visit. Light fixtures in this home still hold old incandescent or CFL bulbs instead of LEDs. The old bulbs are wasteful, drawing far more power than LED lamps. Confirm with the site's host before you claim: this listing names a block, not a building, and does not mean any owner asked for the work. For the payer: - Price: $260 per job, counted in fixtures swapped. - Likely payer: LADWP rebate programs, paid to the account holder after the program's pre-approval. - License: CSLB C-10 Electrical.
Offer to pay $260. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Start after the crew's safety orientation. Switch the fixture off and test the socket dead before touching it, and use a ladder only after ladder training, never on the top two steps. STOP at scorched, cracked or cloth-covered wiring, any exit or emergency light, and any ballast bypass or rewire, which is licensed electrician work. Never put old fluorescent tubes in the trash; wear electrical-hazard-rated boots and cut-resistant gloves.
The full safety list for this job:
- Power off the fixture at the switch/breaker before changing a hardwired lamp; use a stable ladder, never a chair.
- Owner consent precedes work.
- Use a non-contact voltage tester for the dead test. Keep three points of contact on the ladder and never set it across a hallway or exit. Never put a broken fluorescent tube or CFL in the trash. Fluorescent tubes and CFLs hold mercury: do not break them; if one breaks, ventilate for 15 minutes, wet-wipe the pieces, and do not vacuum. Old tubes and CFLs are boxed by type, labeled universal waste with the date, and delivered to an authorized collection point; ballasts marked PCB or leaking oil are not handled by this crew and go to the owner. LED tubes come in three kinds: plug-and-play (works on the existing ballast, allowed), ballast bypass (line voltage at the lamp holders, electrician only, and the fixture is labeled) and external driver (electrician only). Check the lamp label for enclosed-fixture and dimmer ratings and never exceed the fixture's wattage label. Removed halogen and incandescent lamps are hot. Old fixtures with brittle insulation or a burned socket are reported, not worked.
- First-day orientation: this site's hazards, who to call, where first aid is (Title 8 sections 3203 and 1509).
- Fully open and locked stepladder on level ground, never the top two steps, fiberglass near electrical, a second person at the base in a public hallway, never block an exit route (Title 8 sections 3276 and 1675).
- A wall switch off is not lockout: on old or reversed wiring the socket shell can stay live; test with a non-contact tester, and for anything past a lamp the breaker is off, tagged and tested dead (Title 8 Electrical Safety Orders).
- Labels and safety data sheets for lamps, ballasts and any sealant; mercury in tubes and CFLs, PCBs in old ballasts (Title 8 section 5194).
- Glasses on when removing lamps overhead, gloves for hot lamps and broken glass (Title 8 sections 3382 and 3384).
- Footwear, Title 8 section 3385: electrical-hazard-rated boots for electrical hazards and stepping up to reach fixtures.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- non-contact voltage tester
- Type IA fiberglass stepladder
- lamp boxes and universal waste labels
- safety glasses and cut-resistant gloves
- headlamp
- spare lamps for each base type found (E26, GU24, G13 bi-pin) in 3000 K and 4000 K
- a one-page card of each fixture's base, wattage, dimmer and enclosed-fixture limits
- camera that shows the lamp label
Steps
- Obtain two things in writing before any work: the owner's or manager's consent for this work at this address, and, when an LADWP rebate pays for it, the rebate pre-approval with the pre-approval photos taken as the program asks. Work done before the pre-approval can be ineligible, so the start waits for it. Write both at the top of your proof.
- Confirm the single-family home named by the job title and record its GPS location.
- Photograph every fixture with the existing bulb and wattage visible.
- Count the fixtures in the home and record the home's total.
- Switch off, then test the socket with a non-contact tester. If it still reads live, stop and have the breaker turned off and the fixture tested dead.
- Match base, voltage and wattage equivalent, and check the label for enclosed-fixture and dimmable ratings. In a fluorescent fixture use only plug-and-play tubes on a working ballast; never a direct-wire tube unless an electrician converts and labels the fixture.
- Box the old lamps by type, label them universal waste with the date, deliver them to an authorized collection point and keep the receipt.
- Photograph every completed fixture with the new LED lamp or label visible.
- Cycle every retrofitted fixture on and off, then record the count, photos and GPS with the proof.
What counts as done
- Before photo of each fixture with the old bulb/wattage visible
- After photo of each fixture with the new LED lamp/label visible
- Count of fixtures retrofitted matched against the home's total
- Every retrofitted fixture confirmed working (on/off cycle test)
- Photo of the old lamps boxed and labeled, with the drop-off receipt.
- Photo of each new lamp's label (base, wattage, enclosed, dimmable).
- After photos show no direct-wire tube without a conversion label, no exposed conductors, no ballast still in line with a bypass tube, and a count that matches the building's total.
- Site record: the exact site's name and street address, and the contact who agreed to the work
- Consent: the owner's or manager's written consent, naming the address and the work, dated before the first photo.
- Pre-approval first: the LADWP rebate program's pre-approval or reservation number and date, from before any work, or the words 'no rebate' when none is claimed.
- Completion matches the pre-approval: the pre-work photos taken for it, and the completion measurements (fixture count and wattage before and after) that match what the program approved.
- Sign-off: the owner or manager signs off the finished work in writing, and LADWP's completion review accepts the record when a rebate pays for it. Write who signed and the date, or the date you asked.
- Photos: take the before photo and the after photo from the same point (stand where the first one was taken and match its frame), each with its GPS point and its date and time.
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
The standard this serves
Energy Efficiency Audit. Energy efficiency work begins with the walkthrough audit, the kind the ASHRAE standard describes: a trained eye moving through a building, reading the bills, the walls, the lights, and the equipment, and coming out with the short list of fixes worth doing first. Mastery looks like an auditor who can feel where a building is bleeding money within the hour, and prove it on paper. That instinct is trained by repetition on real buildings. This packet is one repetition: one system observed, one reading taken, one finding recorded the way the standard asks.
What is promised, and what is not
Three separate acts, never one: a vote is a free signed preference that moves no money; a pledge is free signed backing intent, balance-checked, that moves no money and never marks the packet funded; funding is a real payment, made by the payer straight to the worker, with no Vealth fee. Paying Vealth is closed: Vealth takes no new card or wallet payment for a job. To fund a job, offer to pay the worker directly, then pay them yourself when you accept the proof, from your own wallet or by your own card or bank. From a wallet: prepare_token_offer, sign, submit_token_offer; after the proof is accepted you pay the worker on chain and the worker records it (prepare_token_settlement, or POST /labor/settle for USDC on Base). By card or bank: prepare_direct_offer, sign, submit_direct_offer; you pay the worker yourself and the worker records it with prepare_direct_settlement. Both are free, need no gas, and move no money through Vealth.
Claiming is free. You sign to prove the wallet is yours: no card, no deposit, no fee. Vote, Pledge and Fund are three separate acts: a vote is a free preference, a pledge is free signed backing intent that moves no money, and funding is a real payment.
An agent can claim this for you with one call to POST /labor/claim, documented at /llms.txt.
Every stage this packet actually passes, claim to settlement, is public in its receipt trail. A stage that has not happened is not claimed.
Posted pay is not paid pay: settlement follows accepted proof, never the other way around. Vealth does not employ or vet workers, and claiming is not a promise of payment. See how proof and receipts work.
Other acts: vote, pledge, fund
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