Garden studio power & lighting – Haslemere

A customer in the hills above Haslemere had built a timber garden studio to work from home and needed it wired as a proper room, not an outbuilding on a lead. It needed to run a couple of monitors, a panel heater through the winter, decent lighting for video calls, and outdoor lights on the path back to the house. The studio sat at the bottom of a sloping garden, well away from the house board.

We ran an armoured (SWA) supply from the house consumer unit down the garden at the correct burial depth and fed a small sub-consumer-unit inside the studio, so the building has its own protected circuits rather than everything hanging off one overloaded spur. Inside: ring of sockets sized for a heater and office kit, warm dimmable LED downlights chosen to look right on camera, and a dedicated supply for the panel heater. Outside, we added weatherproof path lighting on a switch by the studio door. Everything RCD-protected, Part P notified, tested and certificated. The result runs like a small extension of the house, not a temporary fix.