Owning your own home

Thanks bro, fingers crossed!

Just had something like this done, although running to a mobile home rather than a garage... but what we have had is...

New isolater put into our meter box, which then runs to 10mm armoured swa cable, to another meter box on the side of the mobile home which has another isolater in (with lower ampage), which then runs into an RCD inside the mobile home.

Maybe slight overkill for a garage, but that would be best way, sure you could get away with not having two isolater probably, and you might be OK with 6mm core cable rather than 10mm.

we had 40m of armoured cable, and the two isolaters and meter box all installed for £500, but i'm down in the west country...

you'll need an electrician, and likely materials and services:

x metres 3 core PVC/SWA/PVC and appropriate glands
burying tape
4 way consumer unit
likely earth terminal and possibly earth rod dependent on IT/TT
outgoing mcb from existing consumer unit in the house (you do have a spare way..?)
incoming 30mA rcd breaker for garage CU
outgoing mcb for sockets
outgoing mcb for lights
x metres 2.5mm T&E for power
x metres 1.5mm T&E/3&E for lights
accessories for above
consumables
building works and making good
inspection, test and certification
say 2 full days work, maybe 3

appx >£1,000 for a NICEIC tech, less for a bodger

Can I boast post a pic or floor-plan?

You seem a man in the know...

I'm intrigued why our sparky ran off the mains supply in the meter box rather than from the consumer unit, is this better\worse\indifferent?!

I think I can.

Sold damp (but lovely) two bed flat in SE23, bumped up the mortgage a bit and bought ALL THIS!

Not in London obvs.

Good luck. Where abouts is it? I'm at Pretoria Road.

Where's the pic?

Is there an attachment? I'm not seeing it!

Bridge Court, opposite the Turkish cafe. Any recommendations for hipster douchepubs?

Red Lion, Northcote, Leyton Tech, you can't chuck a brick in them places without hitting a beard.

Thank god. My people.

Round there's getting loads of investment cos of the station re-opening, there's a huge Bywaters site that's going to be flats.

http://democracy.walthamforest.gov.uk/documents/s48512/Bywaters%20Gateway%20Site_Leyton_Pre-app%20pres.pdf

Thanks for the detail @rive_gauche

The true conneseur will head up to King William IV which is the Brodie's brew pub. And £2.75 for any cask ale.

Nothing wrong with that approach as with two metered connections (1 public, 1 private I assume) and two isolators (and protective devices I assume) a fault condition in one CU shouldn't take out the other supply.

Also adds a degree of future flexibility as iirc you're rebuilding the property and may at some point wish to move the house CU.

A five minute cycle away. Thank god. I don't know shit about Leyton and I was v worried I was moving the middle of nowhere. This thread is - for the first time - comforting.

Is there an attachment? I'm not seeing it!

decided it was douchily boastful, immediately regretted posting and took it down.

suffice to say i'm happy with the purchase

Post it.

I bet my house is fucking miles better.

Any recommended solicitors in Walthamstow? I want to buy a bit of garden off my nextdoor neighbour.

Well, he's not actually my neighbour, he's the wide body landlord...

Anyone attempted this sort of thing before? I've spoken to him and he is happy to sell it, but at what price? These days a sq/m of Walthamstow is serious bznz.

Mainly, I just want to evict the ****ing foxes which live in the totally overgrown garden.

You need before and after valuations for both houses so you know what value it adds to yours and what it takes off his. After that it's just a case of negotiating.

Fairest way is to each pay half towards a surveyor.

I'd be surprised if it would make a quantifiable diffence to the value of either property... Which would help my case for a low value, I guess.

His is a one bedroom 1st floor flat which doesn't have direct access to the garden. Mine is a house which already has an adeqaute garden.

It will be interesting to find out though.

Still worth you getting a valuation, I would've thought. Better to know than not.

Speaking of shit gardens... not on a buying / selling level like what @ChasnotRobert is trying to do, and sorry mate for jumping in, but... erm... generally speaking, is there anything the neighbours can do about a fucked up garden? There is this garden on the other side of the fence to the end of mine, it's been left untouched for at least 3 or 4 years, overgrown shit and having foxes or whatnot don't really bother me, what bothers me and neighbours upstairs is that the amoung of vodka / beer bottles, bedpans, bits of wheelchairs, walking sticks, broken electricals and bluky rubbish, and I am pretty sure there is a sharps bin there... It belongs to a house not on our street, it's around the corner... bit dodgy... the guy who was sent to jail by his 1st mail wife over some pretty serious stuff, and he bought another 1 when he got out? Don't ask me why I know... I just do... (wich I could un-hear what I heard though)