7 miles from the workshop
EV charger installation in Storrington & Pulborough
Three and seven miles from the workshop, the home patch under the Downs — rural plots where the car stops by the barn, the supply is older than the car, and the charger is notified to SSEN.
In short
EV charger installation in Storrington & Pulborough from Solar Squirrel means a dedicated circuit, the right protection at the board and a notification to Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, fitted and certificated by the NICEIC-registered electricians who also do our solar and battery work — about 7 road miles from our Washington workshop. A home charger needs your own off-street parking; where a house has none, the page says what the council offers instead. If the board or the supply needs work first, you hear that at the survey, not on the day.
What decides a charger job in Storrington & Pulborough
Where the car parks, what the supply and the board will take, and who has to be told. These are the local facts behind those three questions in Storrington & Pulborough.
The local facts behind a Storrington & Pulborough charger quote
- Approximately 3 road miles to Storrington and 7 to Pulborough — the closest places to our Washington base; Edmonds Electrical Ltd is registered at Washington, Pulborough.
- A high proportion of period and rural property on plots with outbuildings: the car often stops by a barn or a garage block rather than the house, so the run from the consumer unit to the outbuilding wall is the survey’s main measurement.
- The RH20 district — Washington included — is on Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (grid supply point group H, checked 15 October 2026): the charging point is notified to SSEN.
- Older rural supplies: a charger, an oven and a shower at once is more than plenty of them enjoy, so a load-managed unit that eases off rather than trips the main fuse is the usual specification here, and the board is read before the wall.
- Both villages sit just outside the South Downs National Park, which takes in our Washington base; a charger on an outbuilding or side wall is an electrical installation and the Park does not come into it, and on a listed house the position goes to the conservation officer first.
- Every charging point is a dedicated circuit, protected at the board, tested and certificated by our own NICEIC-registered electricians.
- A flat owner or a renter with their own private off-street parking space can claim 75% of the cost of buying and installing a charger, up to £500, under the government’s chargepoint grant (gov.uk, read 19 October 2026); the vehicle has to be on the OZEV-approved list, and the installer assesses whether the space allows safe charging.
The charger on the barn
Where the car stops is where the unit goes, and on the home patch that is frequently the outbuilding — the same wall a battery wants, under the same roof that is often the better array. The cost of that layout is the run back to the house’s board, sometimes buried, and the survey measures it rather than guesses; battery storage in Storrington & Pulborough and the outbuilding battery are the same conversation.
An older supply, and SSEN
A rural house on an older supply needs the load question answered before the charger: a load-managed unit, a board with a spare way and the right protection, and sometimes a consumer unit that needs work first. The charging point is notified to Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, and if an array is part of the design the inverter goes to SSEN too. Solar panels in Storrington & Pulborough is the roof side, and the lanes are ours.
Two things people in Storrington & Pulborough ask before they book
“Our supply is old — will a charger trip everything?”
Not if it is specified for the supply. A load-managed charger watches the incoming supply and eases off rather than tripping the main fuse; where the board itself needs work, that is quoted as its own line.
“The run from the house to the barn is long — is that a problem?”
It is the main cost of the layout, not a problem. The survey measures it, says whether it goes overhead, buried or along a wall, and prices it with the unit.
What you are not committing to
- A conversation first — where the car parks, what the board looks like, whether a car is here yet — so no visit is wasted.
- A written quote with the circuit, the protection and the notification included, and a separate line for any board work the house needs anyway.
- If a home charger is not possible on your parking, you are told so and pointed at the public network instead.
- The same electricians fit it, test it, certificate it and notify it: MCS certified · NICEIC Approved Contractor.
Questions we get asked in Storrington & Pulborough
Do you install EV chargers in Storrington and Pulborough?
Yes — these are the lanes the van goes down every day. A dedicated circuit, protection at the board, a tested and certificated installation and the notification to Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, by the electricians who do our solar and battery work.
Can the charger go on the barn with the panels on its roof?
Often that is the best design: the outbuilding has the wall, the car stops beside it and its roof is frequently the better array. The survey measures the cable run back to the house and the state of the board, which is where the real cost sits.
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Get a Storrington & Pulborough charger quote
Tell us where the car parks, what the board looks like, and whether the car is here yet or a year away. A written quote follows — circuit, protection, notification and certificate included — from the electricians who will fit it.
- Call 01243 882444
- Email hello@solar-squirrel.co.uk
- Based Washington, West Sussex
If solar genuinely won’t pay for itself on your usage, we’ll say so and save us both an afternoon.