Commercial & Industrial Services
What We Do
We understand that running a business has many demands and whether your business is expanding or has maintenance issues, having an electrical problem, is one you can often do without. We can help with all your electrical requirements and will if needed work around your business and not your business around our work.
You’re not looking for an electrician. You’re looking for a team that understands how your business actually runs, the pressure, the pace, and what it costs when things don’t go to plan.
From our base in Chester, our core team regularly supports businesses as far as Leeds, across the West Midlands, up into Cumbria and out through North Wales, but the reality is, we’ll go wherever the job demands. Because in commercial and industrial environments, it’s not about postcode, it’s about performance. Deadlines matter. Downtime costs money. And when you’ve got people, processes and production relying on your systems, you need a team on site who can slot in quickly, think commercially and deliver without hand-holding.
We work with businesses that can’t afford guesswork. That means clear communication from the start, understanding the brief properly, and often reading between the lines to get to what you actually need, not just what’s been asked for on paper. Our team are used to working alongside facilities managers, site managers and operational leads, keeping projects moving while minimising disruption to day-to-day operations.
That’s why we’ve built our approach around how your business operates, not how it suits us. Our Dark Sparks programme means we work nights and weekends as standard, fitting around your production schedules, your teams and your customers to keep disruption to an absolute minimum. Whether it’s planned works, upgrades or reactive support, we adapt to you and your business, not the other way round.
You’ll get clear, honest quoting from the outset, with no grey areas and no surprises halfway through. Just as importantly, you’ll get a team who understand exactly what you’re trying to achieve, commercially, operationally and practically, and who take responsibility for getting it done properly.
Electrical Condition Reports
The British Standards recommend that all electrical installations are periodically tested, to ensure that the installation is in a good condition for continual use and a condition report given to the end user or client. Commercial and industrial installations should be typically inspected every 5 years.
Additional Power & Lighting
We can carry out lighting audits showing energy consumption and comparison with LED installations, typically giving 80% savings. We also offer finance options as the LED lights come with3-5 year warranties. This, along with the low energy usage, often equates to less than the current monthly cost of running incandescent and fluorescent lighting. We can even carry out free lighting designs for both new and existing installations.
As more equipment requires electrical power we can help with everything from additional sockets to distribution boards and supply upgrades. With more electronic equipment now being used in helping us run our busy lives it is important to protect these installations with surge protection. This can be done at source, where the supply enters the building, at each individual distribution board or even across individual circuits. These devices not only protect IT equipment from voltage spikes, but also LED light fittings and heating controls. High Voltage spikes not only occur when the supply is switched on, but also from high voltages imported from local lightning strikes.
Installation & Maintenance
Our engineers are competent in installation and maintenance in all areas of installations including;
- Data networking
- Emergency lighting
- 3 phase power
- Fire alarms
- CCTV
- Intruder alarms
- Dimming lighting installations
- Office automation
- Heating - including inferred, under floor and space heating
- Fault finding
- Door entry systems
- External power and lighting
FAQs
Installation of additional circuits, or alterations to existing circuits, can largely be done without turning off any electrical supplies. Installing the cable runs and containment can all be done with the power on. However, connections at distribution boards, or final connections where extending existing circuits will require some down time in power. In the case of a single circuit being extended, safe isolation procedures will allow us to just isolate that circuit. In the case of having to open the cover of a distribution board to connect a new circuit, the complete board will be isolated.
We understand that to have the electrical supply turned off has a big impact on running a business. Staff unable to access to, data, the internet, or areas of the building can be very costly to any business. That is why we will schedule out of hours work, so that your business will not be affected.
Our normal hours of business are Monday to Friday 08.00 – 17.00. However, we do specialise in planned electrical maintenance and installation. This work can be scheduled in advance to suit your needs if a normal working week will have an impact on your business and would normally be discussed at the design stage. Our aim is to minimise disruption as much as possible, both from a health and safety prospective to your staff and/or customers and from an economic point of view.
That is entirely at your discretion. We are often left unattended to do work overnight or at weekends without the business owners or staff having to be onsite, including in banks and retail outlets. All we ask for is the contact number to call and confirm entry/exit from the building.
Typically, every five years, though in some circumstances it may be different. For example, a new installation may not need testing for ten years as it would be considered still to be in a fair condition for continual use after such a relatively short life time. However, it is recommended that the installation is inspected and tested at any change of ownership/occupancy.
Emergency lighting should have a full drain test of the batteries every 12 months to ensure that in the event of a power failure, they will last the full duration of their designed output.
The main objective of emergency lighting is so that people, especially those not used to the layout of the building, can safely navigate their way out. Sometimes in a small room a single light showing the exit maybe enough, but where we have a long corridor, or a room with several obstacles to navigate around, additional lighting maybe required; this is more prevalent, when in the event of a fire, smoke is making visibility to see obstacles difficult.
The second objective of emergency lighting is so that any emergency services entering the building have sufficient light to safely navigate the building.
All our work comes with a statutory 12 month warranty. However, as we only use high quality products and do not use low budget materials we offer a three year parts and labour warranty on all our work, so you can have piece of mind that the electrical installation will be of a good quality that will last. We call it our “maintenance free guarantee” Please see our terms and conditions for more information.
