Outdoor & Garden Electrics, Garages, Offices & Hot Tubs, North Yorkshire

The bit that goes wrong is the bit underground.

A supply to a garage or a garden office is not a long extension lead. It is armoured cable, sized for the run and the load, buried at a proper depth with warning tape above it, terminated into glands at both ends and protected at the point it leaves the house.

Every one of those gets skipped somewhere. Ordinary cable in a bit of hosepipe, four inches down, straight across the lawn. It works for a while. Then somebody puts a fork through it, or the water finds it, and the fault is in the one part of the installation you would have to dig the garden up to reach.

A wall-mounted outdoor unit with its cable clipped neatly down the brickwork and the connector holstered. — Outside work, clipped in line

Garden offices and hot tubs, which are load, not lighting.

A garden office with a couple of laptops and a heater, or a hot tub, is a real load at the far end of a long run. Both usually want their own small board in the building rather than a single spur, so the office keeps working when the tub trips and each has its own protection.

A hot tub in particular needs the supply sorting before it is delivered, not after it is sitting on the patio full of water. Worth a call at the point you order it.

What is covered

What this covers.

Garage, outbuilding and garden office supplies
Armoured cable, sized for the run and buried to depth
A small consumer unit in the outbuilding where the load calls for it
Hot tub supplies, arranged before delivery day
Outside lighting, including security and sensor lighting
Outdoor sockets, weatherproof and correctly rated
Certification on completion

Priced after a look at what is actually there. A figure over the phone on work like this would be a guess, and a guess is how people end up with a second, bigger number halfway through.

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While the trench is open.

If a trench is being dug across the garden anyway, it costs very little to put a spare duct in alongside for whatever comes next. A second building, an outside tap with a heater, a car charger on the other side of the drive.

Digging the same trench twice is the expensive way round, and it comes up more often than it should.

See outdoor work alongside a rewire

Where

Covered across North Yorkshire.

This work goes out across the whole patch, from Swaledale and Wensleydale down to York and Harrogate.

HuntonHunton is home.See the area RichmondRichmond and the villages around it, from the market place down to the river.See the area Reeth and SwaledaleReeth and up the dale beyond it.See the area Hawes and Upper WensleydaleHawes and Upper Wensleydale.See the area LeyburnLeyburn and the surrounding part of Wensleydale.See the area Catterick and Catterick GarrisonCatterick, the Garrison and the estates around them.See the area

Hunton Richmond Reeth Hawes Leyburn Catterick Bedale Northallerton Darlington Harrogate York Middlesbrough All areas

Also

The rest of the board.

RewiresFull and partial rewires, and consumer unit replacements carried out to the 18th Edition of the wiring regulations.Read more EICRsAn Electrical Installation Condition Report is an inspection and test of the whole electrical installation, written up so you can read it.Read more Fault findingTripping breakers, dead sockets, lights that flicker when the kettle goes on, a fault that only shows up when it rains.Read more

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Questions

Worth knowing before you ring.

Can I just run an extension lead to the shed?

For a lawnmower on a dry afternoon, plenty of people do. For anything permanent, no. An extension lead across a garden is not protected against damage, is not rated for continuous load, and is not something an insurer will be pleased about after a fire. A proper supply is buried, protected and certified.

How deep does the cable have to be buried?

Deep enough to be clear of gardening and ground disturbance, with marker tape laid above it so anyone digging later finds the warning before they find the cable. The exact depth depends on the route and what happens on the ground above it, which is decided on site.

I have a hot tub arriving next week. Is that enough notice?

Ring and ask rather than assume either way. What matters is whether the existing board has capacity and how far the run is. Finding that out takes a look, and it is far better done before the tub arrives than after.

Power down the garden, buried properly.