What "commercial" actually covers up here
The commercial work we do most in the Highlands isn't factory or industrial. It's:
- Village and small-town retail — the shop with three tills, an EV point out the front and a stockroom heating problem.
- Guesthouses, small hotels, B&Bs — same compliance stack as a holiday let but multiplied. EICR, PAT, fire detection, kitchen equipment testing.
- Offices and small workshops — a partnership office, a joiner's workshop, a mechanic's unit. Annual PAT, five-yearly EICR, thermal check on the board every couple of years.
- Working farms and estates — cattle sheds, workshops, feed stores, holiday cottages on the same estate. Multiple buildings on one supply, often on old SWA runs that need eyes on them.
- Distilleries, community halls, churches — one-off inspections and small remedials, coordinated with whoever's using the building.
What all of it has in common: someone's insurance renewal, licence application or building warrant depends on the paperwork being right. That's the job. Certificates that will pass an insurer or an inspector without a second look.
Planned shutdowns, worked round the trading day
The biggest cost of a board change or a rewire on a commercial site isn't the wire and the labour — it's the downtime. Get that wrong and you've cost a shop a Saturday's takings.
Before we quote anything with a shutdown in it, we ask: when's your quietest day? Can you close early Wednesday? Can the fridge freezer go on a genny for six hours? Can we phase the work so the tills stay live and only the back office is off? Nine times out of ten there's a way to do the job with almost no impact on trade — but you have to plan for it.
Kitchens, cold rooms, tills, alarm systems, CCTV — we sequence the shutdown so the critical stuff is off for the shortest possible window and provide the relevant reports and certificates.
Insurance and paperwork that stands up
Our work is led by an SJIB-registered electrician, and we carry £5m public liability. Every certificate is issued under BS 7671 (current amendment), signed off by Kelvin as a competent person, and lodged digitally so you always have a copy and can email one to the insurer, the letting agent, the building surveyor, or the licensing officer without ringing us first.
If you're audited on your electrical compliance — insurer visit, licence renewal, health-and-safety inspection — the paperwork we've issued will read like it was meant to. That's the whole point.
