Garden Room Electrics in Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield

Mere Green sits at the northern end of Sutton Coldfield, and the houses around it tend to have long back gardens. Over the last few years a lot of those gardens have gained a building at the bottom: a home office for someone who now works from home, a gym, a studio, or a workshop in place of the old shed.

Getting power to it safely is the part that matters. The supply should be armoured cable, buried at a proper depth or fixed securely along a wall or fence, and protected at the house end with its own device. We see plenty of garden rooms fed by an extension lead or an ordinary cable across the lawn, and those are the ones that fail.

How the room is used decides the size of the supply. A home office with a heater, a kettle and a couple of screens, or a gym with a treadmill and a fan heater, can draw a good deal. We ask what the room is for and size the supply so it copes on a cold morning.

The room gets a small board of its own, sockets where the desk or the equipment will be, and lighting that suits the use, plus path lighting so you can reach it in the dark.

If a charger on the drive or a hot tub is planned too, designing the supplies together saves digging twice. Everything is tested and certificated. A photo of the fuse board with the cover on, and a line about what you want doing, is enough to give you a sensible idea of the job before anyone visits.