Electric Car Charging Points — Home & Workplace
Blackwell & Denton FM Ltd survey, install, test and repair electric car charging for households, landlords and businesses across York and North Yorkshire. The charger is the easy part — knowing what your supply, board and parking can actually take is the work, and that is where every job starts here.
What actually charges your car overnight
Nearly all home and workplace charging is AC from the supply, and the car's own onboard charger decides how much of it it can take. Here is what the three common levels mean in practice — we do not fit DC rapid chargers, and we will tell you if your site does not need one.
A standard 13 A socket with the right portable cable will charge a car, but slowly — useful as a stopgap or for a small plug-in hybrid, not as the everyday answer.
Single-phase AC, the standard wall-mounted charger for most households. Overnight it covers normal commuting miles for nearly every road-legal electric car.
Where a three-phase supply exists: workshops, farms, depots and staff car parks. Not every car accepts 22 kW from AC, so we size the plan around the vehicles you actually run.
From a single driveway charger to a staff car park
A chargepoint is a circuit, a mounting position and a set of settings, and it only works well if all three are right for the property. Pick what you need, or take the whole thing alongside your solar, battery and facilities work.
Charging survey & electrical check
We look at the meter, the consumer board or distribution board, the earthing arrangement, where the car actually parks and how the cable would run. That tells us what charger the property can genuinely support before anything is quoted.
Home chargepoint installation
Wall-mounted 7.4 kW chargepoints for driveways, garages, carports and curtilage parking, positioned so the cable reaches the car without crossing a footpath or a neighbour's ground.
Workplace & commercial charging
Single and three-phase chargepoints for staff car parks, customer bays, workshops, depots and unit fronts — from one bay to a row of them, planned around how the site is used.
Faster charging where the supply allows
22 kW three-phase charging for workshops, farms and depots with the right supply, so vehicles and tools recover properly over a shift instead of overnight.
Solar-aware & battery charging
Chargepoints set up to take what your array and battery are already making, so daytime sun fills the car instead of being exported cheaply and then bought back at evening rates.
Load limiting & supply headroom
Where the supply is tight, a load-limiting or dynamic power management device shares what is available between the house, the building and the charger, so nothing trips while the car is plugged in.
Scheduling, apps & cost tracking
Off-peak tariff charging, timed sessions and usage reports set up on the charger's app. Commercial sites can separate staff, fleet and visitor usage so the costs land in the right place.
Cable routes, ducting & protection
Tidy, concealed cable runs, wall and floor ducting, safe crossing details, bollard or trunking protection where a cable would otherwise be driven over, and weather-rated fittings outdoors.
Testing, certification & notification
Full electrical tests, an Electrical Installation Certificate for the new circuit, and the building control notification the installation requires, with copies handed over to you.
Multiple bays & fleet charging
More chargepoints added later, a single-phase site moved to three-phase, and depots or multi-tenant sites planned so the vehicles that need to leave first are the ones charging hardest.
Charger repairs, swaps & maintenance
Fault finding on chargers that have stopped, replaced or will not start a session, software and connectivity fixes, damaged tethered cables or holsters, and older units swapped for current models.
Handover & aftercare
We show you how to start, stop and schedule a session, what the lights mean and what to check first if it stops, with manufacturer warranties passed on and our own workmanship covered.
Home & workplace charging
For households in York, Clifton, Acomb, Driffield, Tadcaster and the surrounding villages: a charger placed where you actually park, set up for the tariff you are on, and wired so it never fights the house for supply.
- Homes with a driveway, garage, carport or off-road parking
- 7.4 kW wall-mounted chargepoints in a chosen position
- Tethered or socket chargers, whichever suits how you charge
- Consumer board upgrades and extra circuits where needed
- Charging paired with solar panels or a battery system
- Load limiting when the household supply is close to full
- Landlords, HMOs and tenanted properties with the right certificates
Workplaces, fleets & landlords
For unit fronts, staff car parks, depots, farms, offices and rented portfolios: charging that is metered, safe and planned around how people actually use the site, not around a brochure.
- Staff car parks, customer bays and unit fronts
- Three-phase 22 kW charging where the supply allows it
- Fleet and van charging planned around shift patterns
- Usage split between staff, fleet and visitors
- Access control and cost recovery options discussed at design stage
- Phased installs so trading, deliveries and parking keep working
- Multi-site portfolios handled by the same Clifton Moor team
Six steps, start to finish
Tell us the car and the parking
Call 01904 659066 or WhatsApp a photo of where you park and the board the charger would come off. Which car, how far you drive, and whether it's a home or a working site.
Survey & honest advice
A check of the meter, the board, the earthing and the cable route. If the supply, the parking or the board can't take a charger as things stand, we say so and explain the options.
The right charger, quoted properly
Charger, cable route, protection, any board work and any load management, written down with what's included and what isn't. No extras added on the day.
Installation
A dedicated circuit, the chargepoint mounted, the cable run made tidy and protected. Most domestic installs are finished in a day; workplace work is phased around operations.
Test, certify & notify
The circuit is tested, the certificate issued and the notification lodged. You get the paperwork, not a promise of it later.
Apps, scheduling & aftercare
Apps installed and explained, tariffs and schedules set, and a direct line back to us for faults, extra bays, cleaning or a swap when the cars change.
What every installation includes
If your supply or parking can't take a charger, we will say so
No safe place to park and run a cable, a board with no spare ways, an old earthing arrangement, or a single-phase supply with almost no headroom — these are real answers and you will hear them at survey stage, not after a deposit. Where that happens we set out what would fix it: a board upgrade, a load-limiting device, a three-phase application, or charging somewhere else on the site until the work is done.
Charging sits inside our facilities work, not beside it
NICEIC Approved electrical work, Gas Safe heating, appliance repairs, planned maintenance, safety certificates, networking, solar, battery storage and reactive call-outs all come from the same Clifton Moor team. Put a chargepoint on your building and the board, the annual inspection, the fault at the weekend and the second bay next year are all handled by people who already know the site.
Ready to charge at home or at work?
Tell us the car, the postcode and where it parks, and we will arrange a survey across York and North Yorkshire. Advice and quote first, decision later.