Fixed Wire Testing (EICR) Across Tonbridge

Fixed wire testing in Tonbridge

Tonbridge sits on the River Medway in west Kent, with a compact town centre, a large number of independent schools and colleges, and industrial estates along Vale Road, Cannon Lane and Sovereign Way. Nearby Tunbridge Wells adds a substantial office and retail base plus the Longfield Road and North Farm industrial areas, and Paddock Wood to the east is a major distribution hub with large warehousing on Transfesa Road. Many premises here occupy older buildings where the wiring has been added to over decades, which makes a thorough EICR particularly valuable. This page covers Tonbridge and the surrounding area; for the whole county see our Kent fixed wire testing page.

Sites and sectors we test in Tonbridge

Education is a significant part of our work in this area, from boarding schools with residential blocks and sports facilities to primary schools and nurseries, where testing is planned around holidays and term dates. We also inspect offices in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells, hotels, pubs and restaurants, care homes, churches and community buildings, and the warehousing and workshop units on Vale Road, North Farm and in Paddock Wood. For older and listed buildings we take particular care to identify undocumented alterations, mixed cable types and inadequate earthing.

Areas we cover around Tonbridge

From Tonbridge our engineers also cover Hildenborough, Hadlow, East Peckham, Paddock Wood, Tunbridge Wells, Southborough, Pembury, Leigh, Penshurst, Edenbridge, Sevenoaks, Wateringbury, West Malling, Kings Hill and the villages of the Medway valley and the High Weald.

We have dedicated pages for other Kent towns as well:

• All of Kent
• Maidstone
• Sittingbourne
• Dartford
• Medway

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.