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I have just dug a trench for armoured cable for my shed. If you buy the right cable it doesn’t need to be deep. I left the hose running moving it periodically up and down the line so it was easy to dig and then just went one spade depth deep and turned it, it took half an hour to do ~7m, but a lot longer to bust 1m of concrete.
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t.o.
Have been very busy with my proper job's project and trying to get the house decorated (three weeks in and we're still knocking it back before building things back up).
Have an appt with UK power networks who are coming to survey the place to install a 100a fuse (thank you spotter for the heads up there) I enquired about going higher but a three phase supply is the next step up and would be about £8k minimum so we're going to just be more judicious about what/how much stuff we have running.
electricians are booked in also to replace our ancient consumer unit with a 100A 14 slot modern jobby in the main house and then we're running a cable to a 60A 14 slot sub unit in the summer house. they explicitly mentioned not including any trenches in their quote so I'm preparing myself mentally for a few days of back breaking work to get it done myself. have also purchased 50m of cat6a swa armoured cable for the house <-> summer house data run. buriable cat 8 seems rare as fuck and cat 7 seems to be the odd one out in terms of specs/uptake and I didn't find any proper armored stuff not on a big drum of 100s of metres so 6a will do. even with fibre arriving in the street soon (cabinets just went in) that should be plenty to run the wired backlink between mesh nodes on my network.
I also noticed after mowing the grass for the first time it appears we may have some rodent friends living in our lawn as there are burrow like openings along the edge of our decking step, got pest control people getting back to me about that. but keen to get that sorted so they don't try gnawing my freshly laid cables (hence the armoured swa in the first place too).
Also spotted the site I had bookmarked for getting the electric radiators from had a 20% off sale so we decided to just buy them all now so they're ready to use (they're plug in and come with freestanding feet so hard-wiring and wall mounting can be done once everything is finished but given how long things are taking sorting out the main house I may need them before it's all fully completed. went for 1000w models for the gym and games room and 1500w for my office and workshop. office is the one I'll need to be as comfortable as possible year around and the workshop has the largest volume of space to heat so figured they are where to go a little bigger. we'll probably never have more than 2 on the go at once anyways as the rooms will all see use at different times of the day. https://www.electricradiatorsdirect.co.uk/ecostrad-iq-ceramic-wifi-controlled-electric-radiators-black/
am a little frustrated that it's going to take a back seat for another 4-6 weeks while the redecoration/house move is sorted but hopefully having the new consumer unit installed and ready waiting to be cabled up should mean the studwork and first fix for all the fixtures can be done nice and quickly and I can get things turned around pretty quickly.