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Fixed wire testing in Maidstone
Maidstone is Kent's administrative centre, home to Kent County Council, Maidstone Borough Council, the county courts and a large public sector estate. Around them sit thousands of commercial premises: town centre offices and shops around Fremlin Walk and Earl Street, business parks such as Eclipse Park and 20/20 at junction 7 of the M20, and industrial units at Parkwood, Allington and Quarry Wood in Aylesford. We work extensively across all of these areas and attend as soon as possible, at a time that suits your site, so that disruption is kept to a minimum. This page covers our local service; for the wider county see our fixed wire testing in Kent page.
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Sites and sectors we test in Maidstone
Much of our Maidstone work is in offices, council and public buildings, schools and academies, care homes, retail units and warehousing. Healthcare sites around Maidstone Hospital in Barming and the Kent Medical Campus tend to need more frequent inspection and phased testing so that clinical areas stay live, and we plan those visits in detail beforehand. Distribution and light industrial premises at Parkwood and Aylesford usually carry higher loads and older boards, so we allow extra time for testing three phase distribution and confirming earthing and bonding before signing off.
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Areas we cover around Maidstone
From Maidstone our engineers also cover Bearsted, Aylesford, Barming, Loose, Tovil, Parkwood, Allington, Penenden Heath, Detling, Boxley, Otham, Langley, Larkfield, Ditton, East Malling, West Malling, Harrietsham, Lenham, Headcorn, Marden, Staplehurst, Yalding and the villages between Maidstone and the M20 and M2.
We have dedicated pages for other Kent towns as well:
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About fixed wire testing and EICRs
Fixed wire testing, formally an Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR), is the periodic inspection and testing of a building's permanent wiring, distribution boards, protective devices, earthing and bonding. It is how duty holders demonstrate that an installation is being maintained safely under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, and most insurers, landlords and accreditation schemes expect to see a current report. Observations are coded C1, C2, C3 or FI so that anything dangerous is dealt with first. For a full explanation of what the inspection involves, how often different buildings should be tested and what the codes mean, see our main Fixed Wire Testing service page.