Fixed Wire Testing in Swansea

Pinnacle Testing Solutions Ltd provide professional Fixed Wire Testing in Swansea. This is also sometimes known as an EICR (Electrical Installation Condition Report)

Is Fixed Wire Testing a Legal Requirement?

It’s not that straightforward unfortunately.

You will also need an up to date report to comply with the following regulations:

Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992

You must comply with these regulations to stay within the law, also your insurance will be invalid without an up to date report.

What we do:

Fixed wire testing involves testing the electrical installations within a building to ensure they are safe. Employers are legally required to comply with a number of workplace safety regulations which are designed to protect the health and safety of employees and visitors.

Following a visual appraisal and verification of the entire electrical installation. The following test procedures are applied where appropriate, in order to ascertain the safety of electrical installation:

Continuity – to ascertain that the earthing is continuous throughout the circuit.
Bonding Conductors Continuity – to ensure bonding is in place and effective.
Ring Circuit Continuity – ascertains whether or not the ring is complete.
Insulation Resistance – to test whether there has been any breakdown in insulation to the installation.
Polarity – to check that the installation is correctly wired.
Earth Fault Loop Impedance – to ascertain the Zs of the installation.
Earth Electrode Resistance – applies to TT systems only, to test the earthing rods.
RCD Testing – to check that Residual Current Device disconnects the supply in the event of a fault.
Functional Testing of Isolators and Breakers – to ensure that they disconnect the supply.

On completion of the testing a full report will be issued highlighting any remedial work that may be required. We can then offer you a quote for the work required or you are completely free to use whoever you choose to carry this out.

This ensures complete transparency in our testing.

Frequency of Testing