Charging at home
Domestic electric car charger installation.
A 7kW charging station on your drive, in the garage or on the wall by the parking space. We arrange the fitting with a local EV charger installer who checks what your supply will carry before quoting a fixed figure.
Supply checked before the price. Typically £1,100 to £1,500 fitted, fixed in writing after the survey.
Where is the property?
The postcode tells us your area and your network operator.
What is in the job
What domestic EV charger installation covers
Supply and consumer unit check
Main fuse rating, spare capacity in the board and the earthing arrangement. These three decide whether a 7kW unit goes in as it stands.
A dedicated circuit
Its own protective device and cable, sized for the run. A charging point does not share a circuit with anything else.
The cable route, agreed first
Clipped, trunked or buried along a route we walk with you before anything is drilled. Off the front elevation wherever there is an alternative.
Certification and notification
The circuit is tested, results recorded, and you get the installation certificate. The network operator is notified where notification is required.
How the job goes
Three steps to your EV charger, price agreed first
Nothing gets ordered or drilled until the supply has been checked. If something needs changing it goes in the quote, not on the invoice afterwards.
Survey
Photos of the meter, main fuse and consumer unit to start with, then a visit where the job needs one. Your installer looks at where the car actually parks, not where it would be convenient to fit a box.
Load check
The supply is measured, not estimated. Where the margin is tight, load curtailment lets the charger back off instead of tripping the main fuse, and that goes in the quote.
Install and certify
Charge point fitted, circuit tested, results recorded, app and controls set up with you on the day. Certificate and test results issued.
The technical bit
What decides a domestic EV charger price
The questions that change the price, in the order they matter. All of them are answered at survey, before you commit to anything.
Physical and regulatory figures, not quotes. What applies to your property is confirmed in writing before you accept anything.
The work
What a domestic installation looks like
Three points decide a home job, and all three are checked before you get a price: what the supply will carry, where the cable can run, and where the car actually parks.
Areas covered
EV charger installation across north Derbyshire
Domestic installations across all ten towns. The postcode tells us the area and the likely network operator, which is why we ask for it first.
Do we cover your postcode?
Type the first part, like S40 or DE45. No need for the whole thing.
- Chesterfield
- Brampton, Hasland, Whittington Moor, Walton, Newbold, Old Whittington, Queen's Park, Chatsworth Road, the Crooked Spire, Ravenside
- Brimington
- Brimington Common, Chesterfield Road, Station Road, Tapton, Ringwood, Hollingwood, Staveley
- Dronfield
- Dronfield Woodhouse, Gosforth Lane, Coal Aston, Unstone, Holmesfield, the Civic Centre, Dronfield Bottom
- Clay Cross
- Danesmoor, Holmgate, North Wingfield, Egstow, Tupton, Pilsley, Stretton
- Bolsover
- Bolsover Castle, Shuttlewood, Whitwell, Hillstown, Carr Vale, Clowne, the M1 corridor
- Matlock
- Matlock Bath, Dale Road, Smedley Street, Hall Leys Park, Starkholmes, Darley Dale, Tansley
- Alfreton
- Somercotes, Riddings, Swanwick, Ironville, the A38, Alfreton Park, South Normanton
- Bakewell
- Rutland Square, Haddon Road, the Monsal Trail, Ashford in the Water, Over Haddon, Great Longstone, Youlgreave
- Buxton
- the Crescent, Pavilion Gardens, Fairfield, Harpur Hill, Burbage, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Tideswell, Whaley Bridge
- Glossop
- Old Glossop, Hadfield, Padfield, Norfolk Square, Simmondley, Charlesworth, the Snake Pass
- Derby
- Mickleover, Allestree, Oakwood, Chaddesden, Normanton, Peartree, Osmaston Road, Littleover
- Nottingham
- Forest Fields, Sneinton, West Bridgford, Beeston, Bulwell, Arnold, the Ring Road
- Ashover
- All Saints' church, Kelstedge, Littlemoor, Milltown, Overton, Uppertown, Fallgate, Alton, the Amber valley
- Holymoorside
- the Hipper valley, Loads Road, Walton, Somersall, Old Brampton, Cutthorpe, Wadshelf, Nether Loads
Who does the work
Qualified, insured and certified EV charger installers
Your job does not go to whoever answers first. Every installer working on our jobs clears the same six checks, and we verify them rather than take anyone's word for it. The bar is published in advance, and the evidence behind it comes with your quote so you can check it yourself.
Registered with a competent person scheme
We only send work to installers registered with a government-approved scheme such as NAPIT or NICEIC. That registration is what lets the work be certified and notified without you making a building control application.
TrustMark registered
We check for TrustMark, the government-endorsed standard for work in and around the home. It covers technical competence, trading practice and customer service, not just wiring.
Public liability insurance in date
We see the certificate before we send anyone a job, and you get a copy with your quote. A policy that has lapsed is a straight no, whatever else is in order.
Qualified, and experienced with EVs
City and Guilds qualified electricians working to BS 7671, with EV charging experience specifically. A charger circuit is not the place for someone learning on your house.
Workmanship guaranteed
We require a workmanship guarantee in writing from the installer, separate from and on top of the manufacturer warranty on the unit itself. You get the terms with the quote.
Publicly reviewed, and good
A public review record we can read is a condition of getting work from us: not testimonials on the installer's own site, but a profile you can check yourself. We send you the link with the quote.
Scheme registration numbers and insurance certificates come with your quote, so you can verify them yourself rather than taking a website's word for it. How we choose installers sets out all six checks, including what gets someone turned away.
Next step
Send us a postcode and a photo of your fuse board.
Those two answer most of it: whether the job is straightforward, and what it will cost. If it is not, we will say so the one thing we still need to know.
Questions
Questions about home charging
Can my house take a charging point?
Almost always yes. What decides it is the rating of your main fuse, the spare capacity in the consumer unit and the earthing arrangement. All three are checked before you are quoted, and where capacity is tight load curtailment is fitted so the charger backs off instead of tripping the main fuse.
What does an installation cost?
It is priced per job after the supply check. There is no honest single figure until we know the cable route, the earthing arrangement and which unit you want, so we give you a fixed price for the work described, in writing, before anything is ordered.
Can I have a charger if I only have on-street parking?
Usually not safely. A lead run across a public footpath is a trip hazard and not something your installer will install. Some councils run gully or cable-channel schemes, and some households have a yard or hardstanding that works instead. We will tell you honestly if your address does not.
Should I get a tethered or untethered unit?
Tethered means the lead is attached, which is quicker day to day and suits a garage or a drive you use the same way every time. Untethered means you plug your own cable in, which keeps the unit tidier on a front wall and copes better if you change to a car with a different connector. The installation is the same either way.
Will it make a mess of the house?
The cable is clipped, trunked or buried along a route we agree with you first, kept off the front elevation wherever there is an alternative. You are told how long the job takes when it is quoted, and the site is left tidy.
Can I charge from a three-pin plug instead?
It works, slowly, and it is not what a socket circuit is designed for over many hours at a time. A dedicated circuit with the right protection is the reason to have the work done properly.
Get a quote
Get a quote for a home charging point
Seven quick questions. We reply with either a fixed quote or the one thing we still need to know.
- No cost, and no obligation to book anything
- Your details are never sold on or passed around
- A fixed price for the work described, in writing
Would rather talk it through? Call 01246 952042.
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