For what the cost difference is you might as well buy a generator to power it as other things can be plugged in. Everyone can spread it - Anyone can catch it. Stay home - the life you save can be your own!

Unless you are able to get a very cheap generator with a large enough VA output then a new one will set you back several hundred pounds. Another option would be to hire a gennie but this too will be dead money lost

It's only to do some cementing in the garage and to put down a barrier against water running in across the front

I think I might head down the hire route if they do one in the correct size Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

landy19840 wrote:

Base of street lights?!? Don't thinks so!

Years ago in lancashire, the old sodium concrete street lamps were converted, the top section was cut off and replaced with a modern discharge unit. The base was fitted with a 110v Transformer with a 13A plug on it, obviously easiest and cheapest way for the council to perform the upgrade.
There are a few left around the county, most have since been replaced with steel poles and new electrics.

So you see, you learn something every day

Must be a northern thingy, never seen a 110v street light after years of working on them