Electrical installation and testing
Electrical contractors and periodic inspection firms, where the certificate is the product and it gets typed twice.
Where it breaks
A small sample of the problems we hear most often in electrical installation and testing. Not a complete list, and not all of them will be yours.
- 01
The test sheet gets transcribed
Results get written down on site and typed into certification software back at the office. It is the same data twice, a day apart, and the second pass is the one that goes to the client under your scheme registration.
- 02
The observations are unsold work
An EICR comes back with coded observations. The C1s and C2s are work that has to happen and you are the firm that found them. The remedial quote gets written when someone has time, and a landlord under pressure to complete remedials inside twenty-eight days of the report will use whoever gets back to them.
- 03
The five-year cycle is somebody else's diary
A rented property needs an EICR at least every five years, with the report to the tenant inside twenty-eight days. That is a renewal you could book the day you issue the report, and almost nobody does, so the property gets re-tested by whoever is quoting when the landlord remembers.
- 04
Notifiable work notified late
Domestic work that falls under Part P has to reach building control through your competent person scheme inside the scheme's window. It relies on somebody uploading it after the job, so the ones that slip are the small jobs that finished on a Friday.
- 05
Assessment week costs you a fortnight
Scheme assessment means sample certificates, calibration records and qualification evidence produced on demand. All of it exists, none of it is in one place, and the preparation comes out of billable time.
- 06
Materials never get back to the job
Van stock and merchant purchases get reconciled to jobs late or roughly, so the job that made no money looks the same as the one that did until the quarter closes.
What we'd build
A small sample of the kind of thing we build. What we'd actually scope depends on which of the problems above is costing you most.
Certification from the engineer's own record
Test results captured once, on site, and turned into the certificate and schedules without a second pass in the office. A photograph of the board fills in the circuit schedule, the ways, the ratings and the device types, so the part of the certificate that is pure transcription stops being typed at all.
The second typing pass gone, and certificates issued on the day of the test.
Observations priced as remedials
Coded observations pulled out of the report, priced against your rates and issued as a quote with the ones that are a landlord's legal problem flagged first. The firm that found the fault gets the first quote in rather than the third.
The firm that found the fault gets the first quote in, inside the landlord's twenty-eight days.
Re-tests booked the day you issue
The next periodic inspection diarised from the date on the certificate and the client contacted ahead of it, so the five-year cycle becomes your renewal rather than an open tender.
The five-year cycle becomes your renewal rather than somebody else's open tender.
Notification tracked to completion
Notifiable jobs flagged at booking and watched until the notification is actually lodged, with anything still open inside the scheme's window escalated rather than discovered at assessment.
Part P notifications lodged inside the scheme's window, including the ones that finish on a Friday.
The assessment evidence built as you work
Certificates, calibration dates and qualification records collected against the scheme's requirements continuously, so assessment week is a review instead of a fortnight of preparation.
Assessment week becomes a review instead of a fortnight out of billable time.
Job costing that closes weekly
Labour, materials and van stock attributed to the job as they happen, so the loss-making job type is visible while you can still stop quoting it that way.
The job types that lose money visible while you can still reprice them.
Recognise any of these?
Thirty minutes with a founder. Walk us through the problems your team lives with and we'll talk about whether any of it has to stay that way.