People who have stables at home - electricity and water?

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People who have stables at home - how do you get/pay for your electricity and water?

Do you run the electricity from your house on the same meter and pay as if it were household electricity? Or do you have a separate meter and if so do you pay different rates?

Likewise, do you have water that runs as an agricultural supply and do you have a meter? Or does it come under your household bill?

Trying to work out whether to run the water from the house (20m) or from the field (500m!) to the stables...
 
My electric runs from our house supply but we connected in to the trip box in the garage across to the yard, underground via armoured cable, you must use this sort of cable. The stable block has its own trip box also for safety. The water to the yard at the moment runs via a hose from our outside tap but it will eventually connected properly with the heavy duty blue water pipe as i had trouble with the hose freezing during the winter. Armoured cable is expensive so take the shortest route. Everything is on the houshold bills
 
We have a genny for the electric during the winter months and we collect rain water in huge storage tanks. We have five horses/ponies and very very rarely run out. Putting in mains electricity and water worked out astronomical so we had to rethink. Works out quite cheap really. I even have spotlights which work off the genny if I need to ride after work when it's dark.
 
We've gotta thing called an Elimileak which basically monitors how much water we use. We had a mega leak a few years ago and the bill came to nearly a thousand quid :( - so we had this fitted. If you want to know about it, PM me (I shan't get commission!)

It will bleep if you have a leak & you can set it for various time spans, i.e. hour, day, week etc, so if there's a leak within that time you'll know.

We've got a stopcock between us and the stable supply, and the field supply also has shut-off valves if needed, just to be safe.

The electric comes from the house and is billed all as one unit, as is the water. We have two DIY livery's normally and they have access to the water and electric as well, all included in their livery, i.e no separate meters. However if there is a misuse in future we'd have to think about putting in meters, but probably the cost-effectiveness of that wouldn't work out anyway.
 
Leccy comes from the house - it has its own circuit in the fusebox and runs out via armoured cable underground to the barn, where it goes through another fusebox/RCD thingy.

Water - I have two IBCs that collect water off the barn roof, so don't generally need mains water, though I can and have run a hosepipe from the outside tap on the house on odd occasions.
 
We've got huge water bowsers, one that supplies the stable barn and the other supplies the field - it's unusual for them to run out (but they are low at the moment due to the lack of rain we've had) In winter, they froze up so we had to bucket water across from the house - Electric is linked across from the house with it's own fusebox but this was done before we moved in - all on household bills :)
Kate x
 
Electricity via armoured cable from the house supply, water from an agricultural supply.

Water was already like this when we purchased our home 2 years ago and water company won't allow us to tag into our house supply as we are not metered :rolleyes:
 
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eleccy and water from house

our water is metered. We have a blue pipe laid under the garden, it has various stop cocks so it isn't on all the time so that any leaks arent running all the time. We turn a tap on at the house to turn it on. We also claim non return for what the horses drink off the sewage charges
 
Our electric runs from the farm building's supply. Electricity runs to the parlour/dairy and is then phased to the house afterwards.

Water is on a meter for the entire house/farm, due to it all being registered as a business address.
 
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