Installation, testing and maintenance of commercial emergency lighting systems to BS 5266 standards. For offices, retail, schools and commercial premises across East Lancashire.
Emergency lighting is one of those things you hope you never need – which is why it’s the system most likely to be quietly failing in the background. Batteries don’t last forever. Fittings get painted over. Test buttons stop being pressed. Five years go by and what was once a compliant emergency lighting system is now a string of dead luminaires no one’s noticed.
BS 5266 – the standard for emergency lighting – requires monthly function tests and annual full-discharge tests on every emergency luminaire. The annual test takes three hours of battery operation to be valid. Most commercial premises don’t do this. They mean to. It never gets done.
We install, test and maintain emergency lighting systems under one contract. Installation to current standards, monthly tests recorded centrally, annual full-discharge tests certified, and any failures rectified inside the same visit. The fittings that don’t pass get replaced – we keep stock for the common types so it’s a same-day fix.
Where you’re starting from scratch we’ll design the system to BS 5266, install it, commission it and certify it. Where you’ve inherited an existing system we’ll inspect it, test it, and either certify what’s there or rectify what isn’t.
We walk the building, identify every emergency luminaire, check the existing test records (or note their absence), and identify any obvious failures or missing coverage.
Within forty-eight hours we send a quote covering inspection, testing, certification and any remedial work needed. If the existing system needs design work we cost that separately.
Annual three-hour discharge test on every emergency luminaire. Failures identified, replacements scheduled or done on the spot where stock matches.
Monthly function tests recorded - either automatically on self-test fittings or via a scheduled visit on traditional fittings.
Annual certificate issued, log book updated, soft copies emailed. Ready for your fire risk assessor or insurer.
28 fitt
Average emergency luminaire count on a small commercial site
3 hr
BS 5266-required full-discharge test time
85 %
Percentage of new installs we spec as self-test fittings
70 %
Failed fittings replaced on same visit where stock matches
Monthly function tests and annual full-discharge tests, per BS 5266. Function tests can be brief. Full-discharge tests require three hours of battery operation.
Self-test fittings test themselves automatically on a programmed schedule and flag failures via an LED indicator. Manual-test fittings require someone to physically operate a test switch. Self-test cuts out the monthly visit labour.
Typically four to five years for sealed nickel-cadmium batteries, longer for lithium where fitted. Most failures we see are batteries that have aged out rather than wider system faults.
Yes. We do annual full-discharge testing and certification on systems we didn’t install – assuming the system is BS 5266 compliant to start with. We’ll flag any compliance gaps separately.
We give you a remedial quote on the same day. Common-stock items we can replace on the visit; specialist fittings might need ordering in, usually within a fortnight.
Yes – design to BS 5266 from drawings, lux calculations, fitting specification, install, commissioning and certification. Quoted as a full package.
Free site survey. Quote and payback figures within forty-eight hours. No pressure, no follow-up calls if it’s not for you.