What does a commercial electrician do for a small business?
Keeps your premises safe, legal and working, and makes changes when the business does. Most of our commercial work is for small and medium premises where one reliable electrician is easier to deal with than a large contractor.
Typical jobs include:
- LED lighting conversions
- Fluorescent fittings swapped for LED panels, battens or high-bays.
- Repairs and fault finding
- Tripping circuits, failed lights and dead sockets.
- Remedial work
- Items from an EICR put right and recorded.
- Fit-outs and alterations
- Sockets, lighting and data points for a new layout.
- Three-phase connections
- Supplies for machinery, compressors and kitchen equipment.
- Emergency lighting
- Fittings installed, replaced and tested.
What are a business's legal duties for electrical safety?
Under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, employers and anyone in control of premises must keep electrical systems safe and maintained. In practice that means regular inspection, fixing faults promptly and keeping records.
Guidance commonly recommends a periodic inspection (EICR) every five years for offices and shops, and more often for some premises such as those with heavy use or public access. Your insurer or landlord may set their own interval, so check your lease and policy. Emergency lighting to BS 5266 typically needs a brief monthly function test and a full-duration test once a year.
Can electrical work be done without closing the business?
Usually, yes. We plan the work around your trading hours, which can mean early starts, weekends or doing the job in phases so only one area is affected at a time.
Where the power has to go off, we agree when with you in advance and keep the shutdown as short as we can. For a shop or office, that might mean swapping lighting one zone at a time or fitting new sockets before staff arrive. We keep the work area tidy and safe, and we tell you before we isolate anything that runs tills, servers, fridges or alarms.
How is commercial electrical work priced?
Every job gets one fixed price, agreed in writing before work starts. Smaller jobs, such as a lighting swap or a few new sockets, are often priced from photos. Fit-outs, larger maintenance jobs and three-phase work usually need a survey visit first.
If we find something during the work that wasn't visible beforehand, such as damaged cable above a ceiling, we stop, show you and price it separately. Nothing extra is done without your approval. That makes costs easy to sign off, whether you own the business or manage the building for someone else.
Can you handle other trades at the same premises?
Yes. Norman also does plumbing, air conditioning, handyman work and property maintenance, so one visit can cover several jobs across trades. A unit in Braunstone might need new lighting, a dripping tap fixed in the kitchenette and shelving in the stockroom.
Put it all on one request and you get one fixed price and one person to deal with. For premises that need regular attention, you can book routine checks and repairs job by job, each at a fixed price, so small problems are picked up before they close a till, a kitchen or a workshop. If you manage several units, each one can have its own fixed price and photo record.