--- title: "Outbuilding and summerhouse electrics in Chipstead | 5.0 Star" description: "Outbuilding electrics in Chipstead test the feed to a garage, stable or garden room before anything is added. A small feed is not loaded further." canonical: "https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/electrician-chipstead/outbuilding-summerhouse-electrics" --- # Outbuilding and summerhouse electrics in Chipstead > Outbuilding electrics in Chipstead test the feed to a garage, stable or garden room before anything is added. A small feed is not loaded further. Outbuilding electrics in Chipstead start by testing the feed that already serves the garage, stable or garden room. That feed is often too small for the way the building is used now. ## How a Chipstead outbuilding is costed The figure follows the lights and sockets fitted inside the building named, after the feed has been tested. A new feed, when the old one cannot cope, is a separate line. Building the stable or garden room is not included. - Power to a shed or garage: from £450 - A feed that fails is not loaded with extra sockets. - The house consumer unit is changed only on its own booking. - Garden lamps away from the building belong with outdoor lighting. ## Outbuilding and summerhouse electrics across Chipstead We serve Chipstead from our base in Banstead. - High Road - Outwood Lane - Starrock Lane - Hazelwood Lane - How Lane - Coulsdon Lane - Hazel Way - Chipstead station - Shabden Park ## What happens on the day Garages, stables and garden rooms around Chipstead are often still fed by a cable that cannot carry what is now plugged in and switched on. We test that feed before we add a light or a socket. Shabden Park and the detached houses off Outwood Lane and Starrock Lane are typical of plots with a second building. A newer consumer unit in the house does not mean the feed to the stable is adequate. We do not put the building up. ### Test the feed that is there The cable from the house to the garage, stable or garden room is identified and tested. Its result decides whether anything can be added. ### Add only what the feed can carry A light or a socket is fitted inside that building only when the feed tests as fit. If it does not, the addition waits and the feed is written up as its own job. ### Keep the house unit in its role The house consumer unit is not swapped because a stable needs a socket. A recent fascia in the house says nothing about the cable in the stable. ## Questions about Chipstead outbuildings ### The house unit is new. Is the stable feed fine? Not from that. A newer unit in the house can front older cabling, and the feed onward to a stable is a further question that the tests answer. ### What if the feed is too small? We stop adding load. A larger feed to that stable, garage or garden room is priced as its own circuit, not hidden inside a socket. ### Do you build the garden room? No. The structure, the base and the lining stay with the builder. We deal with the electrical feed and the fittings inside. ### Are Shabden Park plots different? The test is the same. Detached homes off Outwood Lane, Starrock Lane and Shabden Park often have a separate building, and that building is written on its own. ### Can the cottage on High Road use this visit? Yes, when the cottage has a garage or garden room to supply. The cable that follows the cottage itself is not replaced on this visit. ## Other services in Chipstead - [Electrician in Chipstead](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/electrician-chipstead): Electrician in Chipstead, Surrey (CR5) — the Reigate and Banstead village, not Chipstead in Kent. 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