In Glastonbury the first question is rarely which charger. It is where the car spends the night. A flat over a shop on the High Street, a cottage on the slope up to Bove Town, a family house on a modern estate and a farmhouse out on the Levels each start from a different place. Here is how we work out whether a charge point is possible, and what it takes when it is.
A home charge point has to supply a car parked on your property, through a cable that never leaves your property. That is the line we work to. We will not wire a charger that only works with a lead draped across the pavement or the road, however short the gap looks.
If you are not sure whether a space is yours, the plan with your deeds or the managing agent for the building can usually tell you. For a rented home, the owner has to agree before anything is fixed to the building, and it is the owner we would need to deal with for the installation.
Flats over shops in the town centre rarely come with parking, and the flat's meter is often nowhere near any yard at the back. Where there is an allocated space behind the building, three things decide it: whose supply would feed the charger, who owns the wall it would hang on, and whether the freeholder agrees. When all three line up, it can be done.
Some of the medieval and Georgian cottages in town have a rear garden or yard reached from a lane. If the car can get there, the cable usually leaves the house through a thick stone wall and the charger sits on a sheltered stretch of wall near where the car parks.
A drive alongside the house and a newer consumer unit by the front door is the commonest easy case in town. The survey still checks the earthing, the board and how much headroom the supply has, but the run is usually short.
Long drives and outbuildings mean long runs in armoured cable, usually buried in a duct. The route, the depth and where the cable comes back up are agreed before anyone picks up a spade.
No two driveways are the same, so we don't publish a price list. Long drives and outbuildings need extra cable, and some boards need replacing before they can take a charger. We look first, then give you a fixed price in writing, charger and all.
Glastonbury has plenty of holiday lets, and a charge point is an obvious thing for owners to add. The installation is the same as for any house: a dedicated circuit with a Type A RCBO, the earthing checked, the DNO notified and an Electrical Installation Certificate for the new circuit. Holiday lets should have the installation inspected and tested at least every five years, so if a report is due anyway, the charger and the inspection can be planned for the same visit.
Set the charger app up in the owner's name, not a guest's or a cleaner's. We do that with you at handover so the account stays with the property.
Three pieces of work this year within a few miles of Glastonbury that show the checks behind a charger installation.
The price depends on the charger you choose, the cable run and the board. It covers the charger, the dedicated circuit, the cabling, fitting the unit and the certification; we fit Ohme, Andersen, Hypervolt and Zappi, normally at 7.4kW on a single-phase supply. Longer runs and any board work are added after the survey, and you receive one fixed written price with VAT at 20% shown separately.
On the day, we finish by setting the app up on your phone and showing the car charging. If the house needs other work, see our consumer unit replacement in Glastonbury and EICR in Glastonbury pages. Business charging is on commercial EV charging in Glastonbury, and the rest of our local work is on our Glastonbury page.
Leave your details and a line about the job. We will ring you back to talk it through and arrange a survey or a written price.
You can ask your landlord, but the installation has to be agreed by whoever owns the building, and it needs a parking space on that property with a cable route that stays within it. Where the flat is over a shop, the freeholder usually has a say as well. If the owner wants to go ahead, we survey and price it with them.
No, it just changes the job. Long runs go in armoured cable inside a duct, and the cable size goes up with the distance so the charger still gets a healthy supply. Near Glastonbury, long private drives are common in villages such as Baltonsborough. The extra cable and labour are measured at survey and built into the fixed price.
Usually, yes. We fix into sound stone, seal where the cable passes through the wall and choose a spot sheltered from the worst weather where the lead still reaches the car. If your house is listed, check with the local planning office before booking, as we cannot advise on planning matters.
Not always. The survey looks at the board and the earthing, and we test the new circuit we install. If the house has no recent report and the wiring looks old, we will suggest an EICR first, so you know the rest of the installation is sound before adding a heavy load.
We do. Notifying the distribution network operator about a new charge point is part of our installation, so there is nothing for you to send in. When the work is finished you get the Electrical Installation Certificate, the Part P notification made through NAPIT and confirmation that the DNO has been told.
Priced by the job, not by the hour. A written, fixed price after a survey, NAPIT certification on every notifiable job.
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