I just don’t think its a good idea to splice a main power line in the yard. Besides, it might cost more to dig the trenches and pull through the crawlspace. I still think pull a new wire from the main is a better solution. You have to go through the crawl space any how.
BTW, you can have an outside subpanel, so it won’t ruin your inside decoration.
We have a similar situation - there is an existing 50 amp breaker in our main panel and a line for a “hot tub.” (Funny how many home owners wanted a hot tub but never got it - we too did ask the builder to put a hot tub breaker for us at House1!) We will be putting a junction box where the line ends instead of running a new wire to the panel. Why? Because we will have to disassemble the dang side of the kitchen to do the latter. The line is entombed in the walls. A junction box is a much cheaper solution sometimes.
Those of you who put the line for a hot tub and never actually installed a hot tub are way ahead of those of us who did install the damn hot tub.
(Thanks, Mr. VeryHappy. Now go use the damn thing!)
Yes, I fought the hot tub the whole way! I let H put in the lines which have been hanging out of a piece of conduit in the sun for over 15 yrs on the side of the yard. The exposed wire will need to be cut and the junction will occur at the base of that piece of conduit sticking out of the ground. At one point we ‘inherited’ someone’s beat up above ground hot tub but that lasted only a couple of years before I finally got it hauled out of the yard to the dump.
I personally do not want one and was just indulging H’s fantasy that we were going to get one in the future. He was an active surfer and he just jumped into the pool after surf sessions and that water was warm enough for him compared to the ocean.
I have loaded another photo of the view opening up. I have had 2 guys working for 2 days straight, 4 man days, just to clear all of the overgrown stuff away from the front of the back room. I also had my gardener remove a giant bird of paradise that was over 12 ft tall and a mature Sago Palm. The mature Sago Palm has been transplanted to another area in front of the house and we will see if it survives.
We are on our 3rd dump run of greenery pulled from the front yard
Glad you are trying to save the palm!
My in laws had a hot tub at their home on a sloped lot, the hot tub was about three stories below the street. When it was time to get rid of the hot tub, FIL hired some local labor and he cut it up with a chain saw and had the guys tote the manageable pieces up to a trailer to take to the dump!
That view is to die for!
In my photo that I loaded this morning, there are 3 large palms still remaining. 2 of the palms are going to stay and get cut back to improve the view. But there is a triple pygmy date palm that is in the foreground. I am trying to decide if it needs to be pulled out to totally open up the view.
The 8 ft wide window is going to get replaced with french doors in the middle and 2 operable single hung windows on each side. We will have to expand the opening 1 ft to the right to accommodate some structural posts between the french door (5 ft wide) and the two 18" wide operable windows.
@coralbrook - when H and I retire maybe we should rent out our house and move into your studio with our cats! I love that view.
That one tree will not make or break the rental so if you’re unsure, keep it for now.
I vote for losing the pygmy date tree and REALLY opening up the view. Perhaps it can be transplanted elsewhere?
Is this going to be a slider door to a patio with BBQ area? In that case, would the renter want some privacy?
I think the slider door and patio are on the back side of the house. I do recommend a window covering, especially with that afternoon and setting sun streaming in. Great for a living room, but maybe not always in a bedroom.
Ha!
Nice boat. 
Actually the door and windows are in the front of the house where the view is. They do need window coverings because sun sets straight out and anyone coming to the front door can see into the room. There is not really an issue of privacy from street because we are raised high off the street. I’m trying to decide between French doors, which I will have to order custom to outswing because there will not be enough room to swing inside… or a sliding door which will not require any room for swinging in or out and could have a screen.
Issue is French doors are more stylish than sliders and it’s the front of the house and I want it to look good.
CB, my vote is for a Pella fiberglass slider!! Make the side windows all the way to the ground. That way, it creates that effect of a glass wall (this is what we did in the MB, and I am enjoying the view it opened up). I am not a fan of French doors. They look stylish, but they really take away a lot of the view. I wish I could show a photo of our slider, but I lost the original of my avatar photo, and I don’t want to replace my grandkitties …
Vinyl or fiberglass slider would cost a lot less
I have Marvin fiberglass sliders on my three season porch, they are great.
Fiberglass is much better than vinyl IMO because it is so much stronger than vinyl that the stiles and rails can be literally half as thick. you wind up with noticeably more glass surface. And it never needs painting.
You can’t really see how big the patio is from the satellite photos or the flickr photos, but I’m guessing it’s not that big. Outward opening french doors could eat up a lot of the patio space in order to have room to open.
Patio isn’t built yet, but it can really only be about 6ft deep. So I think it will be a slider because no room for doors to swing in our out