EV charger installation in Villajoyosa

Villajoyosa spans a seafront, a dense old town of painted houses, and urbanisations climbing the slopes behind.

Each of the three creates a different obstacle between your meter and your car.

Access, gradient, and what they do to an installation

The hillside urbanisations have the longest runs we install anywhere. A meter at the road and a house set well above it can put eighty metres or more between the supply and the parking space, and every metre has to be accounted for in the conductor size because voltage drop is calculated over the whole length at full load. On the longest of these, the cable costs more than the charger.

Gradient adds a second problem that flat sites do not have: water. A trench on a slope becomes a channel, and runoff after the autumn storms tracks along it to whatever is at the bottom. Burying cable on sloping ground without proper protection and adequate drainage is how you produce a fault that appears three winters later, and we have dug up enough of them to take it seriously.

The old town is the opposite constraint. Runs are short, but access is genuinely difficult: streets too narrow for a vehicle, no parking anywhere near the door, and materials carried the last stretch by hand. It affects the labour rather than the materials, and it is the reason a job that looks small on paper takes longer here than the same job elsewhere.

What all three have in common is that none of them can be judged remotely. We visit, measure the actual route, and give one fixed figure — and in this town more than any other, that visit routinely changes the number substantially in both directions.