Home EV charger installation in Glenfield
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What sets the price in Glenfield
A charger's an easy fit on most Glenfield homes. The thing that moves the price is the cable: how far it has to travel from your fuse board out to where the car sits. Homes here mostly come in three sorts.
Newer estate homes
The least involved. The drive is right by the house and the fuse board is close and usually modern, so there's very little cable to run.
The suburban semis
Most of Glenfield. The charger goes on fine, but the board often sits at the front while the car's down the side or round the back, so the cable has further to travel. That's what we measure on the day, and it's what nudges the price.
The old church core
The older homes near the parish church have tight frontages and a lot of on-street parking. First we check you've got off-street space of your own for the charger. Some also carry older wiring that needs updating before we fit anything.
What's the same wherever you are
The house sets the run and the run sets the price. The rest is the same across the county, so rather than repeat it here, we keep it in one place.
A home charger is proper electrical work, wired in and certified, not a plug-in gadget. We cover who's allowed to fit one and why it has to be signed off on its own page. The unit itself is standard: nearly every electric car sold here takes the same plug, and if you're not sure which yours needs, here's the Type 1 or Type 2 answer.
On the government grant, we'll be straight with you: nearly all of Glenfield is owned houses with their own drive, so most homes here won't qualify. Renters and flat owners with a parking space are the ones it can help. The full grant rule, and what a charger costs, is on our cost page.
Got solar panels in Glenfield, or weighing them up? A charger can be set to run off your own daytime power instead of buying it back at night. Here's more on pairing a charger with solar and home battery storage.
Why we come and look first
Every Glenfield home has a different cable run, so the honest way to price yours is to come round and see it. Here's what we look at, and why charging on your own drive is the cheap way to run the car.
The free assessment
We look at where you park and where the charger would go, then follow the cable back to the fuse board and check the board can take it. We ask how and when you drive, and we think about where your power use is heading, another EV or a heat pump one day, and whether the board can carry that extra load. For most Glenfield homes it's a short visit, and it costs you nothing.
Why charge at home
A 7kW charger fills most cars overnight. On a cheap night-time tariff you charge while you sleep for a fraction of what public chargers cost. Since nearly every Glenfield home has its own drive, that's a saving most people round here can actually get, night after night.
We fit chargers all over the county. Neighbouring Birstall is close by, and Loughborough is a quick run up the road. Our main EV charger installation page has the full detail, and our areas we cover page shows everywhere we work.
Common questions
- We're on one of the newer Glenfield estates. Is ours one of the simple jobs?
- Usually, yes. On the newer estates the drive sits right by the house and the fuse board is close and modern, so there's very little cable to run. Those are about as clean as an install gets. We still like to see it first, but it's rarely more than a short visit.
- We're in a Glenfield semi with the drive down the side. Does that make it dearer?
- It can, a little. On a lot of Glenfield semis the fuse board sits at the front of the house while the car goes down the side or round the back, so the cable has further to travel than on a newer estate home. It's still a straightforward fit. The length of that run is one of the things we measure when we come out, because it's part of what sets your price.
- Our house is in the old part near the church and there's no driveway. Can you still fit a charger?
- Often yes, but it takes more thought. The older homes near the parish church have tighter frontages, and a lot of people park on the street. The first thing to sort is whether you've got off-street space of your own for the charger and the car, because a cable can't just trail across a public pavement. Some of these houses also carry older wiring we'd bring up to standard first. That's a home we'd sooner come and see before we say what'll work.
More questions? See our common questions.