EV Charger Installation Glen Iris

This is the part most quotes skip, and on Glen Iris's older housing stock it is the one most likely to add to the job. A 7kW charger is not a load that flicks on and off like a kettle. It draws hard and steadily for hours, usually overnight, which is a heavier and more sustained demand than anything an ordinary power point was built for. Plenty of homes here already run ducted heating and cooling, an induction cooktop and a home office off a board that was sized for far less, and some still lean on older fuse-style protection never meant to carry a charger.

So the honest answer on a fair share of these homes is that the board, and occasionally the mains feeding it, wants upgrading before the charger goes in. Because that is the same A-Grade trade, it is the same quote and the same warranty as the charger, handled on the one visit. If a wider electrical safety check makes sense while the cover is off the board, we will let you know.

The charger is the part you have the most say over, so it is worth getting right. Most homes suit a 7kW single-phase unit: it puts back plenty of range overnight for ordinary driving and matches the single-phase supply most houses already run on. A 22kW charger only reaches full speed on three-phase power, and most cars cap their home AC charging well below that figure anyway, so it often buys a speed neither your supply nor your car can actually use.

Smart charging is another call worth making early. A networked unit lets you schedule off-peak rates, see what each session costs, and, where a household runs two cars on one supply, balance the draw so the house is never pulled past its limit. Martin will talk through 7kW against 22kW, and basic against smart, for your car and your supply, rather than steer you toward the dearest unit on the shelf.

A house filling one car overnight and a workplace running several bays for staff and fleet are different installs, and Smartlec takes on both. At home it is usually a single 7kW wall unit on its own dedicated circuit, sited so the lead reaches the car without trailing across a doorway. For a business it can mean a bank of chargers, the supply split sensibly between them, and load management so the building does not trip when a few cars plug in at five o'clock. Same A-Grade licence either way, garage wall or car-park bay.

The whole point of one contractor is that the same person who scopes your charger is the one who wires it, sorts the board and answers the phone if it ever needs another look. There is no second trade to brief and no gap for a fault to fall into.

Get in touch on 1300 870 531 or through the website, send the car you drive, where it parks and a photo of your meter box, and a fixed, itemised quote comes back with the circuit, any board work and the charger all in it. Hours are Monday to Friday 7:00am to 5:30pm and Saturday 7:00am to 3:00pm. Smartlec covers Glen Iris from the Prahran EV hub, with chargers nearby in Malvern and Camberwell.