--- title: "Emergency lighting in Southampton | NICEIC approved · From £145" description: "Covering Eastleigh, Whiteley and Chandler's Ford · Trading since 2009 · Call 07366 896562 · Emergency lighting testing in Southampton for offices, shared…" canonical: "https://mci-electrical.co.uk/commercial-electrician-southampton/emergency-lighting-testing" --- # Emergency lighting in Southampton > Covering Eastleigh, Whiteley and Chandler's Ford · Trading since 2009 · Call 07366 896562 · Emergency lighting testing in Southampton for offices, shared… Need commercial emergency lighting testing in Southampton? MCI Electrical checks workplace fittings and records results for offices, industrial units and shared commercial buildings. ## How much does emergency lighting testing cost in Southampton Testing with the certificate is priced from £145, and that buys the visit, the function and duration tests on the fittings in the booked area, and the written result. Larger dock warehouses, multi floor city blocks and sites with high bay fittings take longer and cost more than that starting figure. - Emergency lighting testing and certificate: from £145; £145 for up to 10 luminaires, then £5 per additional luminaire. - Failed lamps, batteries and fittings are extra: repairs are £65 an hour and a new fitting is priced from £195. - A night visit where a lighting failure is threatening cold store stock is a separate booking at £105 an hour. ## Emergency lighting testing in Southampton We test emergency lighting across Southampton and the docks so offices, warehouses, shops and port units keep a lit way out when the mains fail. ### Port and logistics units Nursling, Mauretania Road and the Western Docks move people at odd hours who still need a lit path if a circuit trips. ### City centre offices and shops Blocks around Northam and Above Bar go dark on both floors at once when the shared supply drops. ### Landlords and managing agents Tenants on First Avenue and Empress Road ask for a current lighting certificate before signing or at each rent review. ### Food and marine premises Cold stores lose stock when lighting fails, and salt eats the fittings faster than a dry inland unit. ## Emergency lights around the docks and city Salt, dust, shared supplies and old fabric all change what fails when the fittings are put on battery. ### Millbrook Trading Estate and First Avenue Yard dust coats bulkheads and exit signs until a fitting looks fine from the floor and then fails under test. ### Nursling Industrial Estate and Mauretania Road High bay fittings sit a long way up, and testing from a wall switch only drops a lighting row rather than the circuit. ### Western Docks and the port estate Enclosures corrode until they no longer keep the damp out, even where the lamp still strikes for a moment. ### Empress Road, Northam and Above Bar One floor may carry new LED fittings while the next still has nickel cadmium sticks a decade old. ## What happens on the day We arrive, we test, and we leave a certificate, with the company on it from the first call to the paperwork. ### Walking the escape routes You or the site contact meets us at the unit, shop or office and we walk the fire exits, stairs, plant rooms and toilets that people genuinely use, not a tidy plan pinned to a wall. Every fitting seen on that walk is written down, so nothing on a high landing or a rear yard door gets missed because a pallet was parked in front of it. That list becomes the schedule the test is run against. ### Function and duration tests The lighting circuits feeding the fittings are isolated and every lamp should strike straight away. The fittings then stay on battery for the duration your last certificate or fire risk assessment calls for, usually three hours in commercial premises. Lamps that flicker, go out early or never strike at all are recorded. On dock units the glands and enclosures get looked at while the duration is running, because that is dead time otherwise. ### Certificate and a talk through the failures When the duration finishes the supply goes back on and the certificate is written, priced from £145. Failures are listed by where they hang, such as rear stair, loading door or high bay row three, rather than by a code you would have to decode. Repairs are quoted at £65 an hour, or a replacement fitting from £195, and the certificate is handed over on the same visit. ## Why customers book MCI Electrical The docks air, the shared supplies in the city centre and the cold stores where a dark aisle is no small thing are all already familiar ground. ## Recent emergency lighting work in Southampton Recent visits include duration tests on warehouse bulkheads at Nursling, exit signs in Above Bar offices, and corroded fittings facing the Western Docks where the weather had got in. ## Emergency lighting testing questions in Southampton These are the questions we get from dock units, city offices and shop landlords before they book. ### How much does emergency lighting testing cost in Southampton? Testing with the certificate is priced from £145, which covers the visit and the written result for a typical shop, office or small unit. A large warehouse at Nursling Industrial Estate or a multi floor block off Above Bar costs more than that, because the duration test takes longer and there are far more fittings to reach and record. The figure is confirmed before the date is set. ### How often do docks units need the test? Plenty of commercial premises work on a three year cycle, but marine and logistics units standing in salty, dusty air usually belong on something shorter. Cold stores and food logistics tend to come round sooner as well, because a lighting failure there costs stock and not just time. The interval on your last certificate and the conditions found on site both feed into what gets recommended. ### Do you test high bay fittings? Yes. Warehouses on Mauretania Road and around Millbrook need proper reach to the fitting rather than a glance from the floor at a green pilot lamp. Any high bay that fails to strike, or drops out before the duration ends, is recorded with its row and position. Where you would rather change the fittings than keep testing tired ones, LED high bay work is priced from £680. ### What if lamps fail on the day? They go on the certificate as a failure with a location attached. Putting them right is quoted at £65 an hour, or a replacement fitting from £195 where one is beyond saving. Parts are not swapped during a test visit unless that work was asked for in writing beforehand, because a test that quietly turns into an install stops being a test of what you actually had. ### Can you come out of hours? Calls are answered at any hour. Booked tests sit in opening hours so the building can be walked with your staff and the isolation settled face to face. Where a night shift or a cold store needs someone after close, attendance is £105 an hour, and that visit exists to get the lighting safe or working again, with a full duration test following in daylight. ### Will the test shut the whole building down? Only the lighting circuits feeding the emergency fittings are isolated, not the incoming supply, wherever that can be avoided. Mixed use blocks around Northam and the city centre often share one supply between a shop and the offices above, so the isolation window is settled on arrival with both sides and power goes back on as soon as the duration has run. ### Do you cover Ocean Village and Bitterne as well as the docks? Yes. Commercial space at Ocean Village, the Bitterne parades, offices near Above Bar and the Western Docks all sit on the same run from Eastleigh. Give the postcode and say how to get onto the estate or into the block, because half the delay on a city centre visit is finding someone with a key to the riser cupboard rather than doing the work itself. ### What counts as a pass? A fitting passes when it strikes immediately on losing the mains and stays lit for the full duration the building needs, with an enclosure still keeping damp and dust out. A lamp that glows on mains proves only that a charging light works. That distinction matters most on the port estate, where a fitting can look perfectly healthy from the floor and last four minutes on battery. ## Towns we cover from Eastleigh The week out of Eastleigh takes in Chandler's Ford, Botley, Hedge End, Segensworth, Whiteley and Southampton, including Millbrook, Nursling, the port estate, Northam, Above Bar, Ocean Village and Bitterne. ## Other electrical work in Southampton The same visit often sits beside a wiring inspection, appliance testing, a board upgrade, fault tracing, a high bay lighting change or a run of data cabling. - [Electrician in Southampton](https://mci-electrical.co.uk/commercial-electrician-southampton): Commercial electrician in Southampton for testing, emergency lighting and workplace charging across docks, industrial estates and city premises. - [Emergency lighting (all areas)](https://mci-electrical.co.uk/services/emergency-lighting-testing): Emergency lighting testing in Eastleigh by MCI Electrical. MCI Electrical tests fittings and duration, then issues the certificate from £145. - [All areas](https://mci-electrical.co.uk/): Company details, services, coverage, contact options and quote request. ## Book Online Book a Southampton emergency lighting test with the address, the size of the unit and any access times for the docks or the city centre. ## Business facts - Service area: Eastleigh, Whiteley, Chandler's Ford, Hedge End, Southampton - Hours: Every day 00:00–23:59 - Phone: +447366896562 - Email: team@mci-electrical.co.uk - Pricing rules: Fixed wire testing is priced on the number of boards and circuits, not by the hour.; Emergency lighting is priced per light, and the three hour test is priced separately.; Repairs are priced item by item off the report, so you choose what to do and when.; Work outside your trading hours costs a different rate, and I tell you what it is before I set off.; Quotes are free, rescheduling is free, and there is no callout fee. ## Book Online - [Book Online](https://mci-electrical.co.uk/#chat): Send the job details and request a quote from MCI Electrical. ## Sitemap - [Full sitemap](https://mci-electrical.co.uk/sitemap.md): Complete machine-readable page directory.