Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in home garages
Mrs Pete
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Comments (15)We have a drawer unit inside our laundry closet, which is right at the back door where we come into the house. The drawers are the kind that have gaps above them.....drawer modules for wardrobes. Above the drawer we had several power points installed and with 2 surge protector outlets, we can charge about 8 items at a time. The phones, torches, batteries, cameras etc are all in the drawer, with just the cords snaking out the front, up into the power points. It's wonderful, and nothing can get knocked off, because they're all safely in the drawer. It's neat and hidden away, and yet handy. We were lucky though, because we were building a new house, and had the idea for this before we built. Even when our kids come home to visit, they charge their phones and cameras etc in the "charging drawer" and so we don't have a heap of gadgets cluttering up the bench tops. I'm kind of amazed that more companies haven't come up with ideas for charging stations, because it seems like every household has endless gadgets that need to be charged nowadays. Hope you find yours soon Regards Lily...See Morecharging station in drawer, questions
Comments (8)We are putting an outlet on the back wall of an upper cabinet for this purpose. The outlet will be just above the bottom of the cabinet (so we will set cell phones, etc on the bottom of the cabinet for charging). This is our makeshift message center spot - we will have key hooks on the back of the door and the phone is on the counter below, office supply stuff in the drawers in the base cabinet below. Not a great solution, but at least it's hidden. My DH put an outlet in the vanity base in our master bath where we plug in the hairdryer, etc with the hairdryer, etc in a drawer. Didn't get it permitted, however, and I'm sure it's not up to code. We love it and it works great. The outlet is on the back of the vanity base and we just plug in an extension cord with the cord flopped over the back of the drawer. It works fine, never gets hung up and allows us to open the drawer, pull out the hairdryer, dry our hair with the drawer open just a bit, and put the hairdryer back. The stuff is in the middle drawer and the other drawers work just fine. I think it will work great, it's just a matter of getting it to pass code. But if you just put an outlet in the base cabinet, which is fine, then you can rig how to plug the phones and laptop in later. If you had a hole in the back of the drawer, as sue36 suggested, and plug in an extension cord through the hole with the plug IN part of the extension cord inside the drawer (the end where the phones would plug into), right at the hole, then the cord can just extend and relax behind the drawer as you open and close the drawer. Would it be possible to make a hole that you can fit the plug through, but not the end where the phones plug it so it is stuck just inside the drawer? Am I making any sense? Woke up WAAAAYYY too early. Good luck!...See MoreIdeas for a wall mounted cell phone charging station?
Comments (8)Our kitchen is finished with a full backsplash and there will be no further outlets added. Our laundry room (where I want to put the charger) has all open deep shelves and we have no plans to change those for cabinets (we have much more urgent remodeling to do in this house!). If we put in one cabinet just for this it would look very odd. The only open wall space in the room is over the washing machine and laundry tub, about 4 feet wide and 18 inches high. This is where I want to put the charger, right above the washing machine....See MoreLet me see your charging stations!
Comments (23)*sigh* I must be sooooo behind the times. Charging stations....I've heard about and seen them and in theory, this would be a perfect solution to all of our sketti wire messes all over the house. The charging pad? WOW....never even knew that existed until now. What a neat concept. Again, in theory this would be perfect. No landline here so everyone has their cell phones, Ipod thingys, earbuds, etc everywhere....wherever there is an outlet that is convenient/within reach, you can almost expect something is charging from it. I didn't want mine wrapped up in everyone elses mess so in my bedroom....where it's the most convenient of all places to charge my cell because I need it "on" and need to be able to hear it in that end of the house even while charging, I came up with a somewhat neat plan to disguise the cell and cord while charging. Actually, I'm sure the plan is everywhere, it's just that I hadn't seen it yet. Yardsale: purchased a sweet, medium-sized oval Shaker Hat Box for a buck. In the back of the box, using a very sharp utility knife, I cut a small square out of the -I think it's like- Balsa Wood. Ran the little plug that goes to my cell through the hole. Plugged my cell in, put cell in box, lid on top. Hat box is on my nightstand. Cord/plug runs out of the back of the box and down my nightstand between bed and nightstand, and into an outlet. You'd never know there was a cell phone charging in that Hat Box. It's much neater looking and less chance of my phone getting tangled up with everyone elses electronics that need charging, in the house. Did the same for Mr. Amity's phone since his whole life seems to be on his nightstand (keys to auto, keys to the shop, keys to storage, nitrate bottle, change, money clip, wallet, glasses, a red tiny chunk of stone kids gave him while in hospital)...it was the most logical place to put it. I had wanted so badly to be 'organized' when we first got the kitchen in a working mode. I set up a surge protector inside a decorative 'empty' book and tried this for 3 weeks....I ended up doing more nagging than anything else. Wasn't worth it as everyone wanted their cells in their bedroom at all times. But the rest of their electronics, they plug in wherever there is an empty plug. *sigh* The Cleavers, The Nelsons, we're not. LOL...See Morewiscokid
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