A garden bar is a small building that gets used like a room — lights on, music playing, a fridge running and half a dozen things plugged in at once. Running an extension lead out from the house for that is exactly the arrangement that trips a breaker on a summer evening, or worse. This one was given a proper supply.
Getting power out there safely
The supply was run out along the fence line in protective conduit, terminated at a local isolator inside the bar so the building can be switched off entirely without going back to the house. A small consumer unit with RCD protection was fitted inside, giving the bar its own final circuits and its own fault protection.
Sockets and lighting
Sockets were set out along the worktop where they are needed — behind the bar for the fridge and the till, and at the serving side for anything a guest brings out. Lighting is a spotlight fitted to the exposed beam, which throws light down onto the bar top rather than flooding the whole space, and keeps the timber structure looking like the feature it is.
All work was tested and certified on completion. An outbuilding at the end of a garden is one of the places where corners most often get cut; done properly it is a permanent, weatherproof installation that will still be safe in ten years.
