A lot of homes in Street are inter-war and 1960s semis or newer houses on the edges of town, many with a drive or garage beside the house. That usually makes a charge point a tidy job. This page follows an installation from the first phone call to the paperwork you keep, and explains what happens when the supply itself needs attention first.
Street is known for its Clarks shoe-making heritage, and its housing runs from Victorian and Edwardian terraces on the older streets, then inter-war and 1960s semis, then modern estates on the edges. The semis and estate houses are often good candidates, with off-street parking alongside the house and a consumer unit not far from the front wall.
The older terraces are more mixed. Some have rear access or a garage at the back; others only have parking on the road, and a home charger is not something we can fit there. Towards Walton and Ashcott, to the west, and down to the Somerton edge, plots are often bigger and runs longer.
We price by the job, not the hour. The price depends on the charger you choose, the cable run and the board: if the board needs replacing, or there is a fault to find first, that goes on the quote too. We confirm everything in a fixed written quote after the survey, charger and all.
Not every house is ready on day one. At Butleigh, about three miles south-east of Street, the existing supply set-up had a fault that needed investigating before anything new could be added. Once that was found, we fitted a new IP65 EV charger distribution board, new meter tails and a new main earthing conductor, and certified the work on a Minor Works certificate.
For anyone wondering what those parts are: the meter tails are the heavy cables between the meter and your consumer unit, and the main earthing conductor is the cable that connects your installation to its means of earthing. Both carry the full weight of the house when a charger is running, so if either is undersized or damaged, it gets replaced. Some properties also need an earth electrode for the charge point; the survey tells us.
File these with the house documents. If you sell, the buyer's solicitor may ask for the certificate and the Part P record.
Both show the groundwork that sometimes has to happen before a new heavy circuit is added.
A semi with the board on the front wall and the car on a drive beside it is at the simpler end. A garage at the far end of a garden, a buried run in armoured cable, an old board that needs replacing or supply work like the Butleigh job all add to it. The charger itself is priced by model: we fit Andersen, Ohme, Zappi and Hypervolt, normally at 7.4kW on a single-phase supply. Where the house is already busy with electric heating or cooking, a CT clamp for load management may be part of the quote.
Related pages: consumer unit replacement in Street, EICR in Street, our electricians in Street for smaller jobs, and our Street area 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.
Yes, if the car is parked in the garage to charge and the lead reaches comfortably. Many semis in Street have an attached or side garage, which keeps the charger out of the weather and makes for a short cable run. If the car usually sits on the drive in front of the garage, an outside wall position is often more practical. We agree the spot with you at survey.
For the survey, yes, so we can look at the board, the meter and the parking spot with you and agree where the charger goes. On installation day someone needs to let us in and be around at the end for the app set-up and handover, as the app goes on your phone.
A new dedicated circuit for a charger is certified on an Electrical Installation Certificate. A Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate covers alterations to an existing circuit, as with the supply work we did at Butleigh. Either way the work is tested, and notifiable work is registered under Part P through NAPIT.
Tell us the make and model at the first call. We fit Andersen, Ohme, Zappi and Hypervolt units and know how each one is installed and set up. If yours is a different make, we will tell you honestly whether we can take it on before booking a survey.
Yes. We work across Street and out to Walton and Ashcott to the west, Butleigh to the south-east and the Street side of Somerton. Larger plots in those villages often mean longer cable runs, which we measure and price at the survey.
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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