How Do You Run Electricity And Water To Outbuildings And Gardens?
Perhaps you have a workshop, cook house, barn, or other type of outbuilding some distance from your house. Or, maybe you have a thirsty garden or orchard. You could make much better use of these areas, and with a lot more ease, if you had power and water run to them. But, the cost to hire out the work is beyond your means. Could you do it yourself? Plan the path for your water and power lines. Ideally, water and electrical lines would be buried, as you likely need to mow or walk near their paths. Lay out and measure the distance from the power and water source to the location you want to supply. ***Take care not to run your path over existing electrical or other buried cables. Purchase the necessary materials. For this project I suggest installing the utility cables inside PVC pipe. This will protect the buried cables from the elements and from accidental contact. ***You can also choose to bury electrical cables without enclosing in PVC pipe if you use UL rated wire, like Romex, that i
