Electrical Compliance in Peterborough: One Contractor, Every Certificate Current

LS Elec covers the full compliance stack under one roof: EICRs to BS 7671 (18th Edition), emergency lighting testing and certification to BS 5266, fire alarm compliance to BS 5839, and thermal imaging inspections that catch overheating connections before they become failures. When a report raises defects, the same team quotes and completes the remedial works — including consumer unit upgrades where an installation has fallen behind the standard.

We also look after the newer assets that increasingly sit on compliance registers: EV charge points, which we install and maintain, and existing solar PV systems, which need periodic servicing and inspection like any other part of the installation.

If you let residential property in England, the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 require an EICR at least every five years, a copy given to tenants within 28 days of inspection, and any C1 or C2 defects remediated within 28 days. Local authorities can fine landlords up to £30,000 per breach.

If you run a business, school or care home, the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 place a duty on you to maintain electrical systems so as to prevent danger. A current EICR — backed by emergency lighting and fire alarm certificates where those systems exist — is the accepted way to evidence that duty to the HSE, your insurer and anyone else who asks.

Compliance fails quietly. A certificate expires, nobody notices, and the gap only surfaces when an insurer, an auditor or a tenant's solicitor asks for the paperwork. We close that gap by holding a renewal register for every client: each certificate we issue is logged with its expiry date, and we contact you well before anything lapses to book the re-inspection.

For portfolio landlords and letting agents, that means one supplier holding the dates for every door you manage. For facilities and estates teams, it means EICR, emergency lighting and fire alarm renewals landing on a single, predictable schedule instead of three separate ones.

Inspection and testing happens in occupied buildings, so we plan around the people in them. Schools book us into holidays and half-terms. Care homes get a room-by-room approach that keeps disruption to a minimum. Landlords and agents get tenant liaison and access handled properly, and commercial clients can have testing scheduled outside trading hours.

Every report comes back in plain English, with defects explained and remedial work priced clearly so decisions can be made quickly. We work across Peterborough and the surrounding towns — Stamford, Spalding, Market Deeping, Bourne, Whittlesey, Oundle, Yaxley, Sawtry, Huntingdon and March.