Charging Plug

[dave123456]

I’m due to take delivery of an X5 50E in a couple of months and will be able to get most of my commute on electric.

My house is a Victorian townhouse with parking at the rear. The electricity meter is under the stairs.

I had an electrician around recently and asked about installing a charging port in the rear parking area and the electrician said it would need the bathroom floor taking up to run the cable.

We are due to have our kitchen redone at some point, and also the driveway concreted, assuming there is electric running down the road at the back of the house (an old service lane) would it be possible to have a separate connection rather than trailing a large wire through the house? I assume this would be more money but it would make the logistics a lot easier…

Thanks

[Rough101]

Just lift the floor

[kambites]

dave123456 said:

We are due to have our kitchen redone at some point, and also the driveway concreted, assuming there is electric running down the road at the back of the house (an old service lane) would it be possible to have a separate connection rather than trailing a large wire through the house? I assume this would be more money but it would make the logistics a lot easier

I can't see why it wouldn't be technically possible, but you'd need a separate feed with a separate meter and a separate electricity contract; and hence you'd end up paying two lots of standing charge which would add, what, £150 a year to your running costs? It would probably also cost a lot to get installed and I suspect you'd get a lot of "computer says no" when you tried to have two contracts registered at the same domestic address.

All in all, I suspect the cost would run to many thousands of pounds. That's assuming the DNO would install the extra feed for you in the first place.

Edited by kambites on Monday 5th January 20:19

[ashenfie]

As others have said. Lifting the floorboards is straight forward. Tiled floors are messy for sure. Having an extra meter would be an extra cost to fit and you have a standing charge too.

[dave123456]

Yep as I was thinking it I figured the standing charge would be a killer. Not sure lifting the floor is a great solution either, as it would be complicated.

I’ll have a think.

[DorsetSparky]

Lifting floors for the above electrical install is absolutely straightforward for a decent sparky and shouldn't be a concern.

[gtidriver]

If you're having your kitchen redone, drop the ceiling maybe and run it through there, maybe a floor plan on here could help. Ive begrudgingly put my charge point on the front of my house, getting a cable to my garage ment crossing a path and grassed area which had gas water bt and unconfirmed electrics going though it, ill build a planter around the charge point.