I have a nice Tuff Shed in my back yard as my workshop. I put it in the northwest corner of the yard, behind our big Douglas Fir tree, to make it a little less of an eyesore and keep it mostly out of direct view from the house. It's got a foundation under it and everything. Great little box to do woodworking jobs in, build fun stuff, rebuild a motorcycle, etc. It's my workshop.

Problem is, there's no power out there. So I run a 100' heavy duty extension cord across the lawn, and have a seriously janky breakout box inside the workshop to power tools, lights, etc. And regularly pop the fuse on the GFCI at the house, because electrical loads over long runs of wire act weird...

So finally took my father-in-law up on his offer (yes, he passed two months ago) and am getting two 20A circuits run out to the shop professionally.

The electrical contractor is FANTASTIC (As You Wish Electric in King County, WA if you are interested), and for about $3800 they are running power from my breakout panel AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF MY HOUSE all the way out to the northwest corner of my property where the Tuff Shed is.

They hooked me up with the trenching company to dig the trench out to the shop (60 feet, approx) while avoiding my 100-year old Douglas Fir tree's roots. FOR $4500!!!

I was talking to the trenching guy and laughing because the HOLE is going to cost more than the entire new electrical line, all the hardware, and all the labor to install it!!

He said, "Oh yeah. I know. NOBODY wants my job! :-)"