Moving house, taking existing charger with me?

[mark944gold]

Looking to move house in next few weeks and looking at the cost of now installing a home charge point it appears to be£350 where as it was free before. Does anyone any companies that are still doing it for free or if not is there any reason why I can take my existing charge point and get installed in my new house?

[HTP99]

Once you've faffed about disconecting and removing the existing one and then having it installed; if an electrician will install a "second hand" charge point, in your new place is it really going to be much cheaper than the quoted £350?

I believe the free charger is all part of the purchase of the car IIRC, Renault; for example, cover 75% of the cost and the rest is government subsidised so you are unlikely to get another "free" one.

[Greg_D]

Firstly, it depends who sorted your original charger for you...
i carefully read the terms of my charger grant and there is nothing in there to suggest that you can't move it or that ownership rests with anyone other than you.

from a technical perspective, it would be really easy to resite it, depending on your electrical competence, you can do it yourself. it is only fractionally more difficult than wiring a plug!!!

switch off breaker, remove wires from breaker, remove hardware wholesale (it's only a few screws) and (capacity, specification of board/breakers and location of your new board notwithstanding) reverse the process at the new address. it shouldn't take more than an hour or so.

Cost £0

[mikeyr]

Seems to the perfect thread to ask my question - I have a power supply to my garage which is in a block away from the house. As far as I can tell the power comes from a standard 3 pin socket inside the house which then heads out under the floor/garden and reappears in the back of the garage with it's own little fuse box.

Does this sound remotely sufficient for attaching up a charging point or will they just laugh at me?

[jkh112]

mikeyr said:

or will they just laugh at me?

There will be much hilarity. Then they will provide you with a quote for upgrading the supply to power your free charging unit.
You will reject the quote as too expensive,and then either get a local electrician/ builder to come and put in the required power supply before having the charger installed, or else use a plug in 13amp charging unit with your existing sockets and cabling.

[mikeyr]

THis is the set up (put in before I moved in) - standard plug with fuse box in garage. Looks like the minimum is 16a so imagine it's a no-no for charging without getting extra fees involved.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3hvim5ylklcdmul/AADhOsi...

BG Website says said:

If the charging point is to be located in a garage, the garage must be physically attached to the main building unless it has its own power supply with sufficient capacity to support your 16A or 30A rated charger.