Fixed wire testing and commercial EICRs
Periodic inspection and testing of the fixed electrical installation in shops, offices, restaurants, warehouses, HMOs and blocks of flats. Planned around your trading hours, with a full EICR for your insurer, landlord or fire risk assessor.
What is fixed wire testing, and how often is it needed?
Fixed wire testing is the commercial name for an electrical installation condition report: an inspection and test of everything wired in, from the distribution boards and sub-mains to the final circuits, sockets and lighting. IET guidance suggests every five years for offices, shops and most commercial premises, every three years for industrial units, and every year for places like swimming pools and caravan parks, or sooner if your insurer asks. A small unit with up to 12 circuits costs from £220 including VAT, and larger sites are priced from £20 per circuit, quoted in writing.
- Distribution boards and sub-mains inspected
- Every circuit tested, three-phase included
- Earthing, bonding and RCDs checked
- Observations coded C1, C2, C3 or FI
- Remedials priced separately, never pushed
- Testing out of hours so you keep trading
Fixed wire testing prices
Prices include labour, materials, testing, certificate and VAT. The written price is the price you pay unless you change the job.
How it works
Send your details
Tell us the number of boards and roughly how many circuits, or we survey for free.
Plan round you
Testing booked out of hours or in sections so you keep trading.
Inspect and test
Every board and circuit inspected and tested, with each observation coded.
Report and remedials
EICR within two working days, and any remedials priced line by line.
Fixed wire testing questions
Not answered here? Ring 07703 295654 and ask an electrician.
The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 require businesses to keep their electrical installation safe, and a periodic EICR is how you show it. Most insurers, landlords and fire risk assessments ask for one, and private rented homes in England legally need one every five years.
Fixed wire testing covers everything wired into the building: boards, cables, sockets and lights. PAT testing covers the appliances that plug in. Most businesses need both, and we can do them on the same visit.
Some tests need circuits switched off for a short time. We plan that with you, test out of hours or a section at a time, and keep tills, fridges and servers running wherever we can.
You get a clear, itemised price for each remedial item. Once the work is done we retest and issue a Satisfactory report. There is no obligation to use us for the remedials.
A small shop or office usually takes half a day. Larger buildings can take several days or nights, and we give you a programme before we start.
Registered and assessed
NAPIT registered. Member number 75762.
NAPIT is one of the UK’s government-approved registration schemes for electricians. To get on the register, a firm’s work, qualifications and insurance are checked by NAPIT’s own assessors, and it has to keep passing those checks to stay on it.
- Work checked on siteNAPIT assessors inspect our finished work against the current wiring regulations, BS 7671.
- Qualified and insuredWe had to prove our qualifications and insurance to join, and keep them up to date to stay registered.
- Building Regulations certificateWhen we fit a new fuse box, add a circuit or rewire, we register the work through NAPIT and you get a compliance certificate.
- Check it yourselfOur registration is public. Search member number 75762 on NAPIT’s register and it takes seconds.
On the NAPIT site, choose Member Number and enter 75762.
The registration is held by SB Electrical Group Ltd, the company behind Wired & Certified, so that is the name you will see on the register.
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