Commercial
Small and mid-sized commercial premises: a shop, a restaurant, an office suite, a tenant fit-out. Work scheduled around trading hours where that is what the job needs.
Premises
Small and mid-sized commercial property — the scale a service contractor works at, rather than industrial plant or new-build packages.
The work
Commercial electrical work divides fairly cleanly into keeping premises running and changing what they can do.
A circuit that keeps tripping, a bank of lighting that has failed, equipment that will not start. The same diagnostic approach as residential work, with the difference that downtime has a cost — so establishing the fault quickly matters more than it does in a house.
Replacement, upgrades and relocation as layouts change, including LED retrofits and the control changes they often need. Also exterior, car park and security lighting, and emergency and exit lighting where premises require it.
Panel replacement, additional panels and distribution to serve new equipment or a changed layout, and correcting the accumulated modifications that most commercial panels acquire over a few tenancies.
Circuits sized for the equipment they serve: kitchen equipment, compressors, machinery, HVAC. A commercial kitchen or a workshop is mostly a set of dedicated circuits, and getting the sizing and protection right is the whole job.
Reconfiguring a unit for a new tenant or a new use — removing what the last occupier needed, adding what this one does, and leaving the distribution documented rather than guessed at by whoever comes next.
Scheduled maintenance on distribution equipment, and correcting items raised by an inspection, an insurer or a fire marshal. Corrective work is written up so you have a record of what was found and what was done.
Scope
Being clear about this is more useful than claiming everything.
This is a residential-and-light-commercial electrical service. Commercial work is taken on at the scale of shops, restaurants, offices, workshops and rental property: repairs, lighting, panels, equipment circuits, fit-outs and maintenance.
Not taken on:
If a job is outside that, we would rather say so on the first call than find out on site.
Questions
Where the job requires it, yes — that is normal for commercial work, because shutting down a circuit that serves a till, a walk-in cooler or a treatment room during trading is usually worse than the inconvenience of an early start. The scheduling is agreed as part of scoping the work rather than assumed, since out-of-hours working affects how the job is priced and staffed.
Industrial plant and process electrical work, utility infrastructure, high-voltage and medium-voltage distribution, and large new-build construction packages. This is a service contractor's commercial capability — small and mid-sized premises, tenant work, repairs, lighting and distribution — rather than an industrial contracting business, and saying so is more useful to you than a capability claim that falls apart on the first site visit.
Yes. Repairs across a portfolio, void-period work between tenancies, and correcting items raised by inspections are all within scope. Documented work is particularly relevant for rental property, because a written record of what was inspected, found and corrected is what an insurer or a future tenant dispute will ask for.
Yes — a written record of what was found, what was done and what remains outstanding, along with the permit and inspection records where the work required them. On commercial premises that paperwork is frequently the reason the work is being done, so it is treated as part of the job rather than an afterthought.
Tell us what the building is, what is happening, and whether it has to be done outside trading hours.