Thanks MFillingham. That’s good advice. There’s an electrician in the village that I use often, and whilst he doesn’t do EV charge points he will certainly understand the language that you guys talk, all of which goes completely over my head ?
Tell the electrician it’ll be a 7.4kW draw over an extended time, that the installer will require a spare 32 amp fuse holder, or the space to fit one, and they’d need confidence that the power will not cause problems elsewhere within the house (like the cable between the fuse boxes or the cable to the house).
Is there outdoor space between the garage and the second fuse box? Is there a safe way to get the power cable from the house to the garage without digging a trench?
Before any installation company will put a charger in any house they’ll need pictures of certain things and may require a specific survey to ensure they fully understand what needs to be done.
Just a thought, if it looks like it could be difficult to get the charger installed under a ‘standard’ installation, it might prove cheaper to get the electrician to run a proper power cable from the main fuse box outside the home (if possible) or the second box, if not possible, through to the garage so that all the installation needs is a short run from that new fuse and the box attached to a wall.
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