Garden Lighting & Outdoor Power Supply

The right lighting, used correctly, can highlight features, create shadows & soft textures. From a practical point of view, lighting can also make it easier for people to socialise on patios or decking, as well as navigate paths & driveways.

We can give advice on the best way to bring your ideas to life, and create a scheme that’s aesthetically pleasing as well as practical to use. Whether you want a simple switch for garden lights or the ability to turn lights on & off with your phone, we will be able to help.

If you’re thinking about any type of garden lighting, please get in touch & we can arrange to come & discuss your ideas. 

Downlights, uplights or up-and-down lights are a great way for illuminating fences & walls. They can look great on either side of a front door, and also along fences and in seating areas. Rather than providing lots of really bright light, the lighting can be very atmospheric and can look very stylish

Outdoor sockets are extremely useful as we start spending more time using tools in the garden and also for socialising. More importantly, it is far safer than having extensions cables running the length of the garden from the kitchen window.

With Covid increasing the amount of socialising that needs to take place outside, it often makes sense to fit sockets where you spend most of your time. These can be used for patio heaters, lighting, charging laptops etc, as well as for plugging in lawnmowers & strimmers. We prefer to fit sockets with an IP66 rating, which means they’re totally dust & waterproof. An integral RCD is something else we always recommend, which prevents electrocution in the event of a cable being cut.

If you’d like to discuss fitting outside sockets, please just give us a call.

Once you’ve decided on a new garden room or garden office, and where to put it, you’ll probably move on to thinking about the power supply. Most garden buildings come with lighting & wiring prepared, and they just need connecting to the mains by a qualified electrician such as ourselves.

This usually means an armoured cable running from a fusebox in your house, which is buried underground. The depth of the trench needs to be at least 45cm deep, with hazard tape placed over it. This is to stop anyone digging through the cable in error. It’s also possible to run a cable along a garden wall or fence, but this may not be as aesthetically pleasing.

You will also need to think about what devices you’re wishing to power from your garden room. If you know this, we’ll be able to give advice on the type of cable to ensure you have enough power for all your equipment or tools.

Exactly the same principles apply when it comes to garages & sheds, although they usually come without any lights.

If you’re needing to organise power for a garden room, garden office, garage or shed please get in touch and we can arrange a free quotation.