Commercial electrician in Whiteley
Planning commercial electrical work in Whiteley or Segensworth? MCI Electrical provides fixed wire testing, commercial lighting, power distribution and workplace charging for business premises.
“I have worked on commercial premises across Eastleigh and Southampton since 2009. I quote the job, do the work and sign it off myself, so you always deal with the person who knows your building.”
Electrician in Whiteley and Segensworth
- We look after commercial electrical and data work on the business parks at Whiteley, Segensworth East, West and North, and Solent Business Park.
- Suspended ceilings on Solent Business Park are still packed with T8 fluorescent panels that hum, flicker or simply stop.
- Segensworth East aisles run on discharge high bay fittings that sit far above a ladder, so one dead lamp darkens a run.
- Segensworth West rows feed several tenancies from one intake, and the names written on the breakers stopped matching years ago.
Electrical work around Whiteley Way and Solent Business Park
- These parks went up as speculative offices and sheds in the 1990s and 2000s, and that stock decides the jobs.
- Single storey distribution units where reaching a failed high bay fitting means hiring access before anything can be swapped.
- Terraced rows sharing one incoming supply, where mapping each outgoing way back to its tenancy is the first hour of any job.
- Assembly units where press and conveyor circuits were added over the years and never written onto the schedule.
Electrical services in Whiteley and Segensworth
One visit can cover wiring tests, escape lighting, appliance testing, a board, three phase, machine power, office or high bay LED, charge points, cabling, cameras, a shop refit or a satellite dish.
What happens on the day
Every job on these parks follows the same order, from signing in at the gate to handing the paperwork over.
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Signing in and reading the board
Some parks want a visitor book and a permit before anyone goes past reception, so that is done first and the time is allowed for. Then it is straight to the intake and the distribution board. On a Segensworth West terrace the outgoing ways get mapped to tenancies before a single one is switched off, because the label on the breaker is often the name of a firm that moved out. In a shed, access for high bay work is confirmed before a lamp change is even started.
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Doing the priced work
Testing, a board swap, ceiling lighting, a charge point or a data run happens next, in the order it was priced. A server cupboard or a till line that cannot drop is kept live and everything else comes off around it. Where repairs off an inspection were part of the booking, they get put right while the ways are already open and the parts are on the van, rather than leaving a list for a second morning on the same floor.
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Certificate and handover
When the tools are back in the van the matching certificate is written: wiring test, escape lighting, appliance records or an installation certificate for a board, charge point or three phase run. The site contact is walked through what moved on the board, and every way is marked with the tenancy, machine or lighting row it actually feeds. On a shared terrace that is often the first readable schedule the row has had in years.
Why customers choose MCI Electrical in Whiteley
MCI Electrical plans Whiteley work around the unit address, site access, operating hours and the board or equipment included in the agreed scope.
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Recent work from MCI Electrical
These photographs show work completed across the wider service area covered by MCI Electrical; they are not all presented as jobs completed in Whiteley.
Towns we cover from Whiteley
Whiteley and Segensworth sit on the same round as Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh, Botley, Hedge End and the Southampton estates and port.
Eastleigh, Whiteley, Chandler's Ford, Hedge End, Southampton
Whiteley electrician questions
These are the questions unit holders and facilities managers on the parks actually ask.
How much is fixed wire testing in Whiteley?+
A commercial wiring inspection is priced from £195, and that buys the test of the installation in the unit plus the certificate at the end. On these office floors the interesting part is usually the socket rings, which have been extended for extra desks without anybody updating the schedule. Repairs that the report calls for are charged at £65 an hour and quoted before they are started.
Can you test emergency lighting in a Segensworth warehouse?+
Yes. The battery lighting over the escape doors is tested and certificated from £145, including holding the fittings on battery for their full duration rather than checking that a green light glows. Racking changes are the usual problem here, because a new aisle layout can leave an exit run with no fitting over it. Adding fittings where they are missing is priced from £195.
What does a distribution board replacement cost?+
Swapping or upgrading a board is priced from £950. That is the usual band on a Segensworth West terrace where the old board cannot take the loads sitting on it or where the labelling has collapsed to the point that nobody dares switch anything off. The intake and the tenancy split are checked first, because on some terraces the board is not the only thing that has to change.
Do you fit workplace EV chargers on the business park car parks?+
Yes, and a single charge point on a board with a suitable way is priced from £1,250, grant backed jobs included. The large surface car parks along the junction 9 corridor tend to have supply capacity to spare, which keeps the groundwork and supply side smaller than a tight town centre plot ever allows. Several bays for overnight vans are charged at £75 an hour.
How much is PAT testing for an office on Solent Business Park?+
Appliance testing is priced from £95, and that covers the run of kettles, monitors, laptop chargers, fans and workshop tools a floor usually presents. Each item is inspected at the plug, the flex and the casing before the electrical tests are run. Passes get a dated mark, fails get tagged and written down against the room, and nothing that failed is left plugged in.
Can you add three phase for a machine on Segensworth North?+
Three phase power is priced from £1,400 and a supply for a single machine is priced from £480 where it can land on an isolator from the existing board. Which of the two applies depends on the incoming supply, so that is measured before a figure is written. Assembly units here often have older machine circuits that never reached the schedule, and those get traced at the same time.
What does LED lighting cost in a Whiteley office or a high bay shed?+
Changing an office ceiling to LED is priced from £480 once the fittings have been counted. Warehouse and high bay lighting is priced from £680, and that figure carries the access needed to reach fittings that sit well above a ladder on Segensworth East. Swapping a shed to LED usually pays for itself fastest, because each failed discharge lamp otherwise costs an access hire on its own.
Do you work out of hours if a board trips after closing?+
Yes. Attendance outside opening hours is charged at £105 an hour, and the phone is answered at any time of night. Booked testing and installation stay in opening hours so the building can be walked with your own staff and the isolation settled properly. A night visit makes the fault safe or gets the load back on, then the lasting repair is priced in daylight.
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A Whiteley or Segensworth unit can be booked in, naming the board, the shed or the car park involved.