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Fixed Wiring Inspections cost

Carl Haycock

hi all,

Looking for some guidance. We carry out fixed wiring inspections on our Uk commercial properties every 5 years.  These are mixed office, warehouse and assembly / lab spaces within 3 buildings.  

We have an on site electrician for the general maintenance / small jobs as well as a separate service for PAT testing.  Our regular competent contractor has quoted nearly £100k to carry out the testing which seems massive to all the costs I see quoted online and I find it hard to believe our competitors abroad are spending this kind of sum every 5 years.  i know it is hard to give an opinion without size and we use circa 2300Mwh per annum but any thoughts as to whether this is completely off track or not?

regards

Carl

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    A couple of thoughts ...

    As Mike says, £100k is a full time job for a well-paid individual plus NI and overheads. There are normally 220 working days in a year so at 5 - 10 circuits per day, that would be 1100 to 2200 circuits. Is that about right? It seems a lot.

    The consumption of an medium house is around 2.5 MWh per year, so if the cost of inspection is proportional to consumption, that is the equivalent of 1000 houses. £100 each would be cheap.

    What did you pay last time?

  • 0 in reply to Chris Pearson

    £100k is a full time job for a well-paid individual plus NI and overheads

    But if you're only doing it once every 5 years...

      - Andy.

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