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Pretty huge shed for an allotment! More like a small unfinihshed (at the start of the article) studio-bungalow that happens to be surrounded by allotments...

Did it already have electricity hook up? Water makes sense for an allotment, but you can legally just pipe it in unmetered to your new house? And what about waste water & sewage?

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In a comment here they mentioned that they use a composting toilet, a jug for gray water, and drinking water in a jug with a spout. They have to manually empty the gray water and composting toilet.

Thanks - just not at the time I commented, I did read all three or four others first. :)

He mentioned the electrical wiring in the post.

> The first thing I started on was the electrical wiring. To actually supply the house with power I had to dig a 0.5 meter deep trench from the start of the garden to the house. I did it by hand with a shovel.

Yes but I was specifically asking about the hook-up, whether there was already a connection to the grid ready to be wired in to the shed/house and appliances. (And actually, same confusion about metering applies as for the water.)

Interesting project, I'm just hungry for more detail!

I was also wondering if Denmark requires permitting and a licensed electrician and plumber for the work that was done in the post.

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