Down the bottom of the garden.

OXFORDBEE · Sep 17, 2015

Hi All,

Following a a divorce I have to move to a new property. I had found a property with a double garage and workshop on the end but it has been significantly over priced.

So, I've found a cheaper property and looking at putting in a garden room at the bottom of the garden to extract & bottle in. I'll need to plumb in water & electricity...

Has anyone else done this?

Cheers,

Steve.

B+. · Sep 17, 2015

OXFORDBEE said:
I'll need to plumb in water & electricity...

The easy way would be to run an extension cable from your house and a hose from a tap. If you have separate services plumbed in with their own meters (so your business could have its own supply) it would work out very expensive

OXFORDBEE · Sep 17, 2015

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I could probably get a water meter fitted to the rising main for the house if the water board wanted to argue, in fact my daughter is not home often so a water meter might be a good idea....(!), as I'll be a single bod in a 3 bedroom house...

An extension cable might just work. However building regulations might apply and running a cappings melter and/or anything else might require a ring main rather than a 13 amp cable...

Pete D · Sep 17, 2015

I put a 30ft porta cabin down the bottom of my garden. Its partitioned 20ft / 10ft and the 10 ft end is my honey room.
Spent £150 getting a proper electrical supply to the distribution board which was well worth it. I run 2 warming cabinets, extractor and water heater along with wall heaters and lighting.
Water supply is a cold feed hose pipe to a stainless sink unit with an under sink water heater.
Positioning the cabin wasn't to bad with a hiab lorry and rear access via a field.

OXFORDBEE · Sep 18, 2015

I don't think I could "drop" a container in without significant interest from the neighbours!
I think the garden is big enough for something that size but I need to measure up...

beebreeder · Sep 20, 2015

I am in the middle of doing a similar thing, I would load some pics but not as easy as it used to be, I have run conduit and a blue mains water pipe and pushed 30 amp armoured cable through the conduit all underground, don't forget you will need some sort of drainage system, I am fortunate in that I have an old septic tank in an ideal position and did get full planning as the building is built from concrete blocks to be clad externally in timber when finished