Following an unsatisfactory EICR at a commercial property in Falmouth, we carried out the necessary remedial works to bring the electrical installation back into compliance - including fault rectification on the toilet lighting circuit and office light fitting work.
An EICR – Electrical Installation Condition Report – doesn’t always come back with good news. When this commercial property in Falmouth received an unsatisfactory result, the faults identified needed addressing before the installation could be signed off as safe and compliant with current BS 7671 wiring regulations. That’s where we came in.
The scope of remedial work covered a number of observations from the original report. Rather than working through them all one by one here, the two jobs that perhaps tell the story best are the toilet lighting fault and the office light fitting reattachment – both straightforward examples of what gets picked up during a condition report, and why acting on those findings matters.
The toilet lighting circuit had been flagging an abnormal voltage reading between Live and Earth – 39V, where you’d expect to see something far closer to zero. That kind of reading points to a fault in the circuit, whether it’s a wiring issue, a connection problem, or something else that’s developed over time. Left unaddressed, it’s not something you want in any area of a building, let alone a toilet room that people are using day to day. The fault was investigated on site and rectified, with the circuit then tested to confirm normal operation before we left.
In the middle floor offices, light fittings had been left hanging by their supply cables rather than being properly secured to the ceiling. It might sound like a minor thing, but a fitting supported only by its flex puts strain on the cable connections inside, and over time that can lead to loose terminations or worse. The fittings were reattached correctly to the ceiling, taking the weight off the cables and leaving everything as it should be.
Both of these are fairly typical of what shows up in a commercial EICR – faults that have often developed gradually and gone unnoticed until a formal inspection picks them up. The condition report process exists precisely to catch this kind of thing, and the remedial works that follow are what turn an unsatisfactory result into a satisfactory one.
Once all the identified observations had been addressed, the installation was tested and a new EICR was issued confirming a satisfactory outcome. An Electrical Installation Certificate was also produced to cover the circuits where work had been carried out, with the relevant Building Control notification submitted as required.
If your commercial property is due an EICR, or you’ve already received an unsatisfactory report and need the remedial works completing, get in touch and we can talk through what’s involved.
