Commercial electrical work

If you run a business from a premises, the Electricity at Work Regulations put a duty on you to keep the electrical system in a condition that doesn't give rise to danger. In practice that means a periodic inspection at a sensible interval, and being able to show it.

The interval isn't the same everywhere. An office is a very different environment to a workshop with dust, damp or heavy machinery, and the report itself will recommend the next date based on what it found.

Most commercial work can be staged so the disruptive parts land when you're closed. Testing a distribution board means isolating circuits, and that's a lot easier at 7am than at midday.

• Circuit-by-circuit isolation planned in advance, so you know exactly what goes off and when.
• Early starts, evenings and quiet days where they help.
• Tills, refrigeration, servers and anything with a startup cost identified before anything is switched.

A staff or customer charge point is increasingly something businesses are asked for, and the key question is how many sockets your existing supply will actually carry.

• A load assessment first, spare capacity is usually the limiting factor, not the chargers.
• Load management across multiple units, so the site's maximum demand stays inside what the supply allows.
• Whether you need to meter or recharge usage, which affects which units are suitable.
• The Workplace Charging Scheme, which is grant support per socket for businesses, charities and public sector organisations. Rates and eligibility are set by Government. Check GOV.UK for the current position.

Emergency lighting isn't fit-and-forget. It has a testing regime, brief monthly function tests and an annual full-duration test, and the results need recording in your fire safety documentation.

We can install, test and record it, or just take on the annual test if you're handling the monthly checks in-house.