EV Charger Installation in Walmley, Sutton Coldfield

Walmley is family-home Sutton Coldfield: estates built from the sixties onward, most houses with a driveway, and a lot of two-car households. It is exactly the kind of place where home charging makes sense, and where the number of electric cars on the drives has grown quickly.

The houses in Walmley are recent enough that the wiring is usually sound, which makes a charger installation straightforward in most cases. The thing to check is the load. A family house with an electric shower, an induction hob and perhaps a tumble dryer running in the evening, plus a charger plugged in when everyone gets home, can reach the limit of an older main fuse.

Load management solves that in most houses. The charger watches what the rest of the house is using and reduces its own draw when the shower goes on, then speeds up again overnight. The car is still full by the morning and nothing trips.

Two-car households often want to plan for a second charger, or a charger that can serve both cars, and a garage conversion or an extension can change where the best position is. We talk that through before anything is fitted.

The charger is fitted on its own circuit, tested, certificated and notified as required. A photo of the fuse board with the cover on, and a line about what you want doing, is enough to give you a sensible idea of the job before anyone visits.