EV Charger Installation
in Mount Pleasant

Old Village & Pitt Street bungalows

The homes between Pitt Street, McCants, and Simmons were built between 1900 and 1955. Almost every one we open has some combination of cloth-jacket wiring, ungrounded two-prong outlets, a Federal Pacific Stab-Lok panel that should have been condemned twenty years ago, and a service drop tapped to a live oak that Duke Energy's tree crew will not touch. We stage rewires in these homes room by room so the family can keep power on the refrigerator and the window units while the crew fishes new NM through the plaster.

Park West, Belle Hall, Brickyard, and Longpoint

Roughly 1998 through 2008. Aluminum branch wiring on the 15- and 20-amp receptacle circuits is common in the earliest of these builds, and CO/ALR receptacles are usually mis-terminated. Kitchen small-appliance circuits were routinely under-sized for today's Ninja blenders, induction cooktops, and Instant Pots. Panel real estate is tight; a Level 2 EV charger install here almost always requires a subpanel or a load-management module rather than a spare double-pole slot.

Dunes West, Rivertowne, Carolina Park, Cainhoy

Custom builds from 2010 forward, mostly 320- and 400-amp services with 200-amp house panels and a 200-amp panel dedicated to pool, dock, or shop loads. We see a lot of low-voltage lighting failures at these properties: landscape transformers that were installed with undersized primary conductors and cook themselves after two Lowcountry summers. Generator sizing is the other constant conversation, since these homes have well pumps, saltwater pool heaters, dual HVAC systems, and starlink dishes that all need to ride through a Wando River outage.

I'On, Ion Village, and the new-urbanist pockets

Tight lot lines and detached garages with second-story guest quarters. Panel space is always the constraint, and the HOA covenants restrict where a Generac pad or a Tesla wall connector can live. We have a running relationship with the I'On architectural review board and know which enclosure colors and screening approaches get approved on the first submittal.

Rewire, 1948 Old Village cottage off Pitt Street

Four-day sectioned rewire. Removed 78 knob-and-tube runs, upgraded from a 60-amp fuse panel to a 200-amp Square D QO, added AFCI/GFCI protection throughout, and coordinated the Dominion disconnect and Town of Mount Pleasant inspection. Homeowner kept the refrigerator and two window units live the entire time on a temporary sub-feed.

Generator install, Rivertowne on the Wando

24 kW Generac Guardian on a poured pad, natural gas from a new dedicated Dominion Energy meter tap, 200-amp service-entrance rated automatic transfer switch. Load-shed module on the two HVAC compressors so the whole home rides through a hurricane outage with the well pump and cook top online.

Just this spring, we installed and commissioned this system for a family on the Wando. The homeowner appreciated that our crew handled every detail from the gas meter tap to the final inspection. We took care to coordinate with Dominion and the Town of Mount Pleasant, ensuring everything was up to code and operational before hurricane season. As always, our install included a walkthrough on the generator's operation, scheduled the first annual service, and left the site cleaner than we found it. Homeowners regularly comment on our professionalism and attention to detail, installing a home backup generator is more than just setting the unit; it's making sure your house lights up when the rest of the block goes dark.

EV charger, Carolina Park

Detached garage 130 feet from the main service. Trenched a 6/3 UF-B feeder, set a 60-amp subpanel in the garage, terminated a 48-amp Tesla wall connector on hardwire. Permit pulled with Town of Mount Pleasant, inspected same week.

Restaurant hood interlock, Shem Creek

Existing gas-fired kitchen hood was tripping on start-up because the shunt-trip coordination with the ANSUL system was wired incorrectly by the original contractor. We re-terminated the interlock, verified with the Mount Pleasant fire marshal, and the restaurant passed re-inspection the same afternoon.