Pricing
Priced for a standard install. Each column lists the run, the breaker, the permit and what is left out.
A charger on the garage wall nearest the panel.
Goes up by the foot past 25 ft, or when a finished wall has to open.
A garage where the panel is on the far side of the house.
Wire gauge goes up when the run is long enough to need it. The survey measures it.
A post, a carport or a detached garage away from the house.
Rock, a concrete cut or a tree root in the trench changes the price. We say so at the survey.
Priced for a standard install, with permit and inspection fees in them. A panel upgrade, if the load check says you need one, is a separate quote.
A sample quote
A sample for a 25-foot garage wall package. Your quote has your own lines, each itemized.
A house with the panel in the attached garage.
A sample for illustration. Your own quote lists your own lines.
How pricing works
Six things, in the order a customer asks them.
The feet of wire from the panel to the charger, whether the wire runs through open attic or a finished wall, the gauge the run needs, and the permit and inspection fees.
The survey has a set fee, quoted when you book, and it comes off the job if you book within 30 days. We measure, open the panel and run the load check.
The breaker, wire, conduit, the outlet or hardwired connection, the permit and inspection fees, the load check and clean-up.
The charger, drywall repair and paint, a panel upgrade and a trench through rock, concrete or roots. The quote lists each that applies.
Half to book the install date, the rest when the inspection passes. Card or check.
In writing, after the survey. If the run is longer than the package, it says by how many feet and what that adds.
The survey has a set fee, quoted when you book, and it comes off the job if you book within 30 days. We measure the run, open the panel and run the load check, then write the quote.
The charger itself, drywall repair and paint, a panel upgrade, and a trench through rock, concrete or roots. The quote lists each one that applies to your house, with a price or with the words not needed.
That is what the load check answers. We add up what your house draws, with the central air running, then check what is left on the panel. If there is room, the package goes ahead. If there is not, we show you the options, and a new panel is one of them, not the only one.
Your utility may offer one on a home charger. Austin Energy has had a program for its customers, and Pedernales Electric Cooperative and other utilities around Austin set their own rules. Read the current program page before you buy a charger: the rules, caps and charger lists change. We hand you the paperwork the application asks for.
Tell us where the charger goes. We book the survey and send the quote after it.