Putting electrics in a summerhouse

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Does anyone have any advise or experience of how much this would cost? And how difficult it would be? I’m in central Scotland.

We would like an outside and inside light and 2 sockets. It’s 4 metres from the house.

I don’t want to get ripped off but I want it done properly as electrics scare me. I’m not adverse to hard work and do all other kinds of DIY so I’d happily do the prep work like digging a trench or drilling holes - I love power tools

I think it would depend a lot on where your consumer unit (ie fusebox) is in the house and how neat you want things to be in the house. Probably a lot of the work would be running a cable from the consumer unit to the outside. If the cable is running under soil/lawn (no patio to lift) and you dig the trench yourself then you're right, that world save a bit. The cable can also go overhead, but that's not so neat. Drilling holes is unlikely to take more than a couple of minutes, so you may as well let them do that.

Why don't you follow the time-honoured process of getting three quotes?

The outside light... if the summerhouse is only 4m from the house, could the light be on the house instead?
I’m assuming you mean a security light , or at least something to light the way between house and summerhouse.

we have electric out to the wash house but it was done before we moved in...however it was basically a light and a single double plug, and it had its own (very old and full of spiders) fuse board.
The wire is under ground and comes in somewhere and it has its own fuse in the house fuse board.

it's been upgraded and has a nice tidy fuse board with the flicky doodahs and I have a couple more plugs as the washer/dryer and freezer are out there, so no more trailing extension leads :o

Could you have a solar panel for the lights? That might work!

You don’t really need a trench, they do moling for armoured cables now. Just get some quotes in from local sparks.

The electric cable to our detached garage goes from the consumer unit which is just inside the front door along the side of the house in trunking, its not so noticeable as there are already gas pipes and drainpipes there anyway and was the easiest way to do it it then goes overhead above the back gate, garage is 1-2 metres from house we have about 4 double sockets in there and 2 lights and had it done with a load of other stuff but cost of that and a cooker circuit looks like it was about £1000