Electrical query no 2 - costs of having electrical supply in garage.

[tigwig]

My OH wants to do up the garage as a gym. It's seperate from our house though and is the furthest one away in a block of four. I am a bit dim when it comes to stuff like this so could someone please explain how we would go about getting electrics in the garage and how much its likely to cost?

[scotman]

depends on distance, how much power you expect to need, ground conditions etc. How long is this piece of string I am holding?:-)

[tigwig]

Can't say I've measured the distance lol but (and this is going to be a crap description) the garage closest to our house is as close as any typical house that has a garage on its driveway. So ours is attached to this block, just the last one out of 4. All 'normal' sized garages and it has a standard concrete floor. Hope that helps hee hee! We just want lighting in there not power. When I say gym he wants weights etc not equipment that requires plugging in.

[Old_Geezer]

I suspect it will vary also depending on whether you string a cable through the air, or want it buried underrground. When I was a lad the neighbours had theirs through the air from house to garage. Might still be there for all I know, although they have both shuffled off this mortal coil now.

[The Builder]

It will also depend on how your house consumer unit is set up, tiggers. Any circuit taken outside the house really should be RCD (trip) protected. Unless your CU is very recent, it probably doesn't have an RCD on the lighting circuit. Perhaps your ring circuit (sockets) doesn't have an RCD either.
A good way is to take a sub-main out to the garage and fit one of these..........

http://www.screwfix.c...e-consumer-unit/33248

It'll give you lighting and capacity for a socket or two.
Either underground with armoured cable, or slung overhead on a catenary wire.
An electrician should really investigate.

[buildersmate]

You will have a heck of a job fixing this up legally unless you own a continuous strip of land between the house and garage to put underground cable into. Given your description of the garages, I suspect that you do not.
What you need across the land is known as an easement.

[tigwig]

Thanks guys, we definitely dont own the land between our house and garage so will have to look into this further.

[wolf63]

Female solution - can't you just swap garages?