Provide Electricity to Garden Office

nimdy

I intend to build a garden office at the end of the garden so that the spare room can be a bedroom again. To use it as an office I need power to the building. Here lies the problem. I've been reading up on this online and seem to get mixed messages on how to do this. Some say I need to get an electrician in to install a new consumer unit and steel wire armour cable to the building, while others say I can do it myself my using an RCD spur box to take a feed from a nearby socket in the house then connect it up using the SWA cable.

The latter option seems the easiest, but is it the right choice? Electricity usage will be small in the building - LED lighting, a PC, printer and a few other low powered devices. The highest drain would probably be some form of electric heating in the winter.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

maninthestreet

Are you part P registered?

giraffe69

We have electricity to our garage. It was installed by a qualified electrician with a separate consumer unit and has a domestic electrical installation certificate. Wouldn't have considered anything else. Mind you my DIY skills would not have been up to this anyway!

lstar337

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DaftyDuck

lstar337 wrote: »

You are not allow to promote your business on this site.

You need to contact MSE who will give you a special account and a set of rules by which you must abide!

You can offer advice to people, you cannot promote your business.

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lstar337

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Why don't you try giving me a chance to do it? Just like I have done in the three other positions.

It does take some time you know.

jbainbridge

Have a read ... http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Taking_electricity_outside#Taking_electricity_outside

nimdy

jbainbridge wrote: »

Have a read ... http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Taking_electricity_outside#Taking_electricity_outside

Thanks for that. I'll have a proper read of that tonight. I have had one electrician come to see the property and was surprised by the options he gave me. I had been reading before that I cant do any of the work myself (dad helping) without being certified and notifying the council. The electrician suggested I could so some of the work myself and have him sign it off.

I've got another electrician coming over tonight. Lets see if he tells me a different story!

sajjed

When i got electric installed in my garage we laid the cables from the house to the garage underground, then an electrician came and connected to house and fit a consumer unit sockets etc in garage.

tonyh66

sajjed wrote: »

When i got electric installed in my garage we laid the cables from the house to the garage underground, then an electrician came and connected to house and fit a consumer unit sockets etc in garage.

exactly, you don't want an electrician digging the hole on his hourly rate, and he wouldn't want to do it.

sajjed

tonyh66 wrote: »

exactly, you don't want an electrician digging the hole on his hourly rate, and he wouldn't want to do it.

Thats exactly why we did the donkey work.
it was years ago now so things might be different regarding cables etc but when we dug the trench we put the electric cable through a small pipe to be sunk in the ground
I tied string to the electric cable- attatched a heavy button to it- got OH to put the button in the pipe-I stood at the other end with hoover over the end of the pipe- switched hoover on and hey presto button, string and electric cable were through the pipe in seconds.