Emergency Lighting Cardiff
Escape route lighting installed, duration tested and logged to BS 5266, with the testing done outside your trading hours.
Emergency Lighting In Cardiff
Installed, Duration Tested & Logged
We install and maintain emergency lighting for offices, shops, warehouses, communal blocks and shared housing across Cardiff. Where we take a system over, we establish what is actually there first, because panels and fittings get added over the years without anybody writing it down.
Our emergency lighting services include:
- Emergency lighting design to BS 5266
- Maintained and non maintained fitting installation
- Illuminated and LED exit signage
- Escape route and open area lighting
- Annual three hour duration testing
- Monthly function testing and log books
- Self testing and addressable systems
- HMO and communal block installations
- Battery and fitting replacement
- Fire alarm servicing on the same visit
Every system is commissioned and certificated, with the log book completed before we leave site.
Need Emergency Lighting Installed Or Tested?
Three fittings in a converted terrace or a full commercial system, no job is too big or too small for our electricians.
Emergency Lighting Across Cardiff & Nearby
Cardiff based, so annual testing across several of your properties can be planned into one week.
We look after commercial premises and communal blocks across the whole city and out into the Vale.
Annual duration testing across several of your properties can be planned into the same week, outside trading hours.
Our Accreditations
- NICEIC Registered
- Part P Compliant
- BS 7671 18th Edition
- Safecontractor Member
- MCS Accredited
- RECC Member
- CHAS Member
- OZEV Approved Charge Point Installer
- Trustmark Member
- Fully Insured
Duration Testing & Log Books
The Part Premises Fall Behind On
BS 5266 expects a brief monthly function test, where the fittings are switched to emergency and checked to be lighting, and an annual full duration test where they run for their rated period, usually three hours, and are confirmed to still be lit at the end.
The annual test is the one that gets skipped, and it is the one that matters. Batteries degrade quietly. A fitting that lights up for ten seconds during a monthly check can be flat inside twenty minutes, and nothing about it looks wrong.
We carry out both tests across Cardiff and complete the log book properly, so there is a written history rather than a certificate and a shrug. Where fittings fail the duration test, we replace the battery or the fitting and retest.
Testing can be done outside trading hours, and we combine it with fire alarm servicing and PAT testing, so the premises are only disrupted once a year.
Emergency Lighting In HMOs & Blocks
Communal Areas & Escape Routes
Shared housing and blocks of flats are where landlords most often get pulled up on this, and Cardiff has a great deal of both. A converted terrace let room by room has a protected escape route through the hallway and stairs, and that route needs lighting that works when the power does not.
What is required comes from the fire risk assessment and any licensing conditions on the property. In practice it usually means non maintained fittings on the stairs and landings, cover at the final exit, and signage where the route is not obvious.
For blocks with communal areas, the responsibility usually sits with the freeholder or management company rather than individual leaseholders, and it is worth being clear about that before anyone spends money.
We can survey a property against its risk assessment and tell you what actually has to be installed, and we handle it alongside detection work where both are needed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our Emergency Lighting FAQs
How often does emergency lighting need testing?
A brief function test monthly and a full duration test annually, where the fittings run for their rated period, usually three hours. Both results should be recorded in a log book.
What is the difference between maintained and non maintained?
Maintained fittings are always on and remain on if the supply fails. Non maintained only come on during a failure. Which you need depends on the type of premises.
Does my HMO need emergency lighting?
Usually, on the protected escape route. What is required comes from the fire risk assessment and licence conditions, and we can survey against those and tell you.
Can you test outside working hours?
Yes. A three-hour duration test is disruptive during the day, so most of ours are done in the evening or on the weekend, often combined with fire alarm servicing.