PAT Testing Services Essex
Essex Electrician ensuring your appliances are safe
We offer PAT testing for all types of businesses including: offices, schools, local government and council premises, factories, retail premises, care homes, nightclubs, hotels, public houses shops (hair salons, beauty salons etc) as well as local authority premises.Ensuring that your business complies with the most current and up-to-date Health and Safety legislation as well as the insurance requirements for employee and public liability.
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The pricing Schedule above includes:
- A PAT Test Certificate
- Plug rewiring (as required)
- Complete visual inspection on all equipment
- All PAT scheduled tests on the latest PAT test equipment
- Pass labels (and fail labels)
- Certificate of testing
- Fuse replacement (if required at no extra cost)
- Minor faults are fixed and retested immediately.
- PAT test results
We carry out all forms of industrial electrical installations from the design and construction, through to Routine maintenance
Our PAT testing charges are above, currently our minimum charge for PAT testing is £150.00. Feel free to contact us regarding a PAT Testing quotation
If you have already got a quote, then please can you inform us and make us aware who the quote was from and how much it was and we will do our very best to match it and probably improve on it.
If and when you are comparing quotes, remember that the final quote you get from us will be the price you pay, there will be no extra or hidden charges for rewiring plugs or for changing fuses, additionally for pat testing services that are carried within Essex and East London, we do not charge for the extra mileage.
We carry out all forms of industrial electrical installations from the design and construction, through to Routine maintenance
PAT Testing Procedures
Your PAT testing will be carried out by our own City and Guilds qualified, full trained PAT testing engineers (we will not sub-contract) in accordance with the codes of practice for testing and service inspection of electrical appliances that are portable.
You will find that our PAT testing service is of the highest standard and as you can see above our prices are very reasonable. The points below detail the inspection and testing procedures which our PAT test engineers use
- Full Inspection (visual) - The portable appliance is checked over visually to ensure that there is nothing damaged, to ensure that the electrical flex has no signs of damage, the plug is looked at and examined ensuring the flex is correctly and safely secured to it , opening it up to check the fuse is correctly rated for the appliance and the wiring has been done correctly, finally check for overheating and damage / splits on the plug's plastic casing.
- Insulation Resistance Test - This test is used to test Class I & II appliances, a 500v DC current is passed to the electrical appliances to measure the resistance which should be within the ranges > 1.0 Mohm for Class I appliances and > 2.0Mohm for Class II appliances.
- Earth Continuity Test - The Earth Bond test, only for class 1 appliances to check that they are earthed correctly. Due to the sensitivity of IT equipment we perform special 'soft tests' on the
- Substitute Leakage Test - A gentler version of insulation resistance testing, used on appliances with voltage limiting devices.
- Touch Leakage Test - Used to measure protective conductor current between earth and live parts in class I appliances or from live parts to the appliance enclosure for Class II appliances.
- Polarity Test - This test checks that there are no crossed wires.
- Load Test or Functional Test - To confirm that the appliance operates accordingly
