South eastern Melbourne · REC 29126
EV charger installation in Melbourne's south east.
Supply and install, or install a charger you've already bought. The part most people get caught out by is capacity, so we check whether your supply can carry a charger at full output and tell you before you commit to a unit.
Instant estimate
Get an instant EV charger estimate.
Answer two quick questions and add your details to see your estimate straight away. Include a photo of your switchboard and James will confirm your fixed price, including whether your supply can take the charger.
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01 / The job
Charging at home, without tripping the house.
A home EV charger is one of the largest continuous loads a house will ever run. Whether it fits comfortably depends less on the charger and more on everything else in the house: gas or electric cooking, hot water, heating, and how many split systems are running on a winter evening.
So we check capacity first. For most single-phase homes, a 7kW charger is the practical choice; faster chargers need a three-phase supply to reach their rated output. We'll give you an honest recommendation for your property rather than selling you the biggest box.
Where capacity is tight, load management lets the charger back off automatically when the house is busy instead of tripping the main switch. If you have solar, or are planning it, we can set the charger up to make the most of your own generation.
What's included
- Capacity check and honest advice on 7kW versus 22kW
- Dedicated circuit, correctly sized cable, tidy routing
- Load management so the charger backs off instead of tripping the house
- Wall, post and garage mounting; solar-aware setups
- Certificate of Electrical Safety on completion
Before you buy a charger
- Check whether you're on single-phase or three-phase supply
- Think about where the car actually parks, and how far that is from the board
- Ask whether your switchboard has room for another circuit
- If solar is on the cards, choose a charger that can work with it
- Not sure? We'll answer all of this at the capacity check
02 / How we work
Four steps, no surprises.
The same process whether it's a single power point or a full rewire.
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STEP 01
We come and look
For anything beyond a simple repair we attend in person. Quoting a switchboard from a photo helps nobody.
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STEP 02
You get a fixed price
Itemised, in writing, with what's included and what isn't. If we hit something genuinely unforeseen, you hear about it before we proceed.
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STEP 03
We do the work
Arriving when we said, drop sheets down, dust managed, and the site left clean at the end of every day — not just the last one.
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STEP 04
You get the documentation
Certificate of Electrical Safety, a labelled board schedule, test results, and warranty details. Filed, not verbal.
03 / Coverage
Where we work.
We're based in Melbourne's south east and work right across it, from the bayside suburbs through to the outer south east. If you're just outside this list, ask — we often are.
- Malvern
- Caulfield
- Carnegie
- Bentleigh
- Brighton
- Hampton
- Sandringham
- Mentone
- Cheltenham
- Moorabbin
- Mordialloc
- Oakleigh
- Clayton
- Mount Waverley
- Glen Waverley
- Mulgrave
- Springvale
- Noble Park
- Keysborough
- Dandenong
- Narre Warren
- Berwick
- Frankston
04 / Questions
EV charger questions.
Do I need a mains upgrade to install an EV charger?
Sometimes, and it depends on the finished load rather than the charger alone. A house with gas cooking and gas hot water often has room for a 7kW charger as-is. A fully electric house with an induction cooktop, heat pump and three split systems usually doesn't. We do a capacity check before quoting so you know either way before you buy a unit.
Do you charge for quotes?
Quotes for planned work (switchboards, EV chargers, splits, rewires and electrification) are free and given in writing after we've been on site. Fault finding is charged, because the diagnosis is the work; we'll tell you the call-out rate on the phone before we book anything in.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes. NPJ Electrical Services is a Registered Electrical Contractor, REC 29126, with full public liability cover, and we issue a Certificate of Electrical Safety for every job. Our licence and ABN are in the footer and on every quote we send.
05 / Also
Other work we do.
See photos of recent jobs on our recent work page.
06 / Contact
Tell us about the job.
The more detail you give us here, the more accurate the first conversation is. We reply to every enquiry.
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- Phone
- 0414 157 006
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- Email
- info@npjelectrical.com
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- Hours
- Monday to Friday, 7am – 4pm
After hours and weekends by arrangement -
- Registered electrical contractor
- REC 29126