EV charger installation in Balham
7kW home chargers installed and certified, with an honest answer on whether your supply can take it.
From £850
7kW tethered unit supplied and installed, up to 10m cable run.
Balham is the best area on our patch for EV charging and the one where most of our installs happen. A good proportion of the Heaver Estate and Nightingale Lane houses have front gardens converted to off-street parking, which means a short, tidy cable run from the meter to the front wall — usually a half-day job at the base price. The constraint is supply capacity, not access: these houses often already have an electric shower, an induction hob and a large oven, so we fit load balancing as standard rather than assuming there is headroom. Du Cane Court has a car park but charging there needs the management company's agreement.
The property types we see in Balham
The Heaver Estate — the grid between Nightingale Lane and Balham High Road — is 1890s to 1900s, and unusually for inner London a high proportion has stayed as single family houses rather than being converted. That means big installations: 12 to 16 circuits, loft conversions, side-returns and basement digs, each added at a different time and often by a different electrician. The Hyde Farm Estate to the south is smaller Edwardian workers' terraces, more often converted into flats. Du Cane Court is the outlier: 1930s, steel-framed, with shared risers, communal landlord supplies and a residents' management company whose consent is needed for anything touching common parts.
What ev charger involves
A 7kW home charger costs from £850 installed, including the unit, a dedicated circuit and DNO notification. The real question in inner London is not the charger — it is whether your main fuse and supply can carry it, and whether you can legally run a cable to where you park. We check both before quoting.
You need us if
- You have taken delivery of an electric or plug-in hybrid car
- You are relying on a three-pin granny cable and want to stop
- You have off-street parking, a driveway or an allocated bay
- You are a landlord or freeholder adding chargers to a block
- Your existing charger has failed or needs moving
- You want load balancing so the charger does not trip the house
What's included
- Supply capacity check — main fuse rating and existing load, before we quote
- DNO notification handled for you (required for every install)
- Dedicated circuit from the consumer unit with its own RCBO
- Load-balancing CT clamp so the charger throttles instead of tripping
- Cable run agreed with you, clipped and routed neatly, not the shortest ugly line
- Installation certificate, Part P notification and manufacturer registration
The standard we work to
Installed to BS 7671 Section 722 and the Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021, with DNO notification under ENA G98/G99.
Getting to you in Balham
Balham is Wandsworth controlled parking and it is tight on the Heaver Estate grid, where the streets are narrow and residents-only for most of the day. We carry a trade permit. Du Cane Court has its own car park and porter, and jobs there need to be booked through the estate office — give us a few days' notice for anything beyond an emergency and we will arrange it.
Questions about ev charger in Balham
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For the rest of the questions people ask about ev charger — cost, timing, certification and what happens if we find a problem — see our ev charger installation page. The prices and standards are the same wherever we work.
EV charger in neighbouring areas
We cover the whole of south west London from our Clapham base. Same prices, same hours, same certification.
Minutes to reach Balham at best
7kW tethered unit supplied and installed, up to 10m cable run.
One rate, day or night. No call-out fee, no weekend premium.
EV charger in Balham?
We answer the phone 24 hours, 7 days a week and aim to be with you in 45–75 minutes. £850 — 7kW tethered unit supplied and installed, up to 10m cable run.