We’ve been on this treadmill since Nov. 20, the DNO, SSE, set me up for an emergency wiring replacement as my pre-war incoming is rated at 40a and was looped to the neighbours. The insulation is disintegrating, hence the emergency as its a fire risk and their fault for ignoring it for so long (the engineer said my wire type was condemned in the 90’s and stripped out). I called them again in April, asking where they were, only to find our job was not listed, so another emergency call out to check the wiring, and yes, its still an emergency. The contractors SSE use will be with me shortly. Called again late May as no one has called or turned up etc, what job they said…AAARRRGGHHH.
Yet another emergency call out set up (no record of the other two), the same SSE engineer turned up within the hour, yup, its an emergency! The contractors will be in touch shortly…still waiting. They can’t give you a job number, so you are at the mercy of their clearly failed system.
In the meantime, I’ve upgraded all of the 3 CU’s in the house to new metal units, had spare capacity in the 2nd floor one for the cable for the charger and had 25mm tails fitted, the systems all good to go for 100a…
The EV arrives end of July, I thought it would all be sorted given I had started this 9 months previously.
We have also just started our plodding to get BP to install the charger, pictures uploaded, they came back with “need more pictures of the charger install point & where is the car parked” Given one of the uploaded photos was of my driveway with my bloody car on it where I always park it I’m not holding my breath. I just hope they don’t want to run cables from the incoming main to the charger as they can’t, they have to run from the second floor CU – its another 15m to the main one and through two floors of a listed building. The cable run is 25m already and must be run in the attic crawlspace, it’d be more painful and difficult to run it internally along walls as there are a series of doors & 1m thick stone walls to negotiate.
I just don’t know why Motability chose BP Puse/Chargemaster, I mean, look at Trustpilot, the reviews are shocking!
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