Commercial Electrical Installations in Surrey
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Lighting
Commercial Lighting in Surrey
Are you looking for commercial lighting in Surrey for your office, school, shop or restaurant? We would be glad to help.
We are NICEIC registered commercial electricians who install and upgrade lighting in occupied commercial premises.
Work with us and you can expect LED replacement of older fittings, lighting installed zone by zone so areas stay in use, set-out planned against how your space is actually used, and certification handed over on completion.
So whether your premises is in Weybridge, Guildford, Epsom, Woking or anywhere across Surrey, get in touch for a free, no-obligation chat to discuss your requirements and an estimate.
New lighting going into one of the floors on a project in Weybridge, Surrey.
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Why lighting gets replaced
Why Surrey businesses replace commercial lighting
Businesses replace commercial lighting for running cost, for maintenance, or because the space simply looks wrong. Most of the jobs we quote involve at least two of the three.
Running cost is the reason people say out loud. Older fluorescent and discharge fittings draw considerably more power than LED equivalents, and in a building where the lights are on ten or twelve hours a day that adds up.
Maintenance is the reason facilities managers care about. Every failed tube and failed ballast is a call-out, access equipment, and someone's afternoon. A floor of ageing fittings generates a steady trickle of small jobs that never quite justify replacing the lot, until you add up a year of them.
Appearance is the reason it finally gets approved. Yellowing diffusers, a couple of dead fittings, and two different colour temperatures across one ceiling make a building look tired regardless of how well it is run. In retail and hospitality it goes further than that. The lighting is part of what you are selling.
Weybridge, Surrey
An office relight in Weybridge, start to finish
These two photographs are the same office building in Weybridge. The first is the floor stripped back with the original fluorescent fittings still in the grid and first fix cabling dropped in. The second is a finished floor.
The second floor was completed, then the first floor the week after. Phasing it that way meant the building never lost both floors at the same time.
Scope
Commercial lighting work we carry out
- LED upgrades and replacement
- Replacing fluorescent, halogen and older fittings with LED, from single-area swaps to whole buildings.
- Office lighting
- Panel lighting in grid ceilings, suspended linear fittings, meeting rooms and reception. See office electricians.
- School and hall lighting
- Classrooms, halls, corridors and stairwells, programmed into the school holidays. See school electricians.
- Retail and display lighting
- Track and spotlights, window and feature lighting, with switching arranged for display use. See retail electricians.
- Hospitality lighting
- Dining, bar and lounge lighting with the switching and dimming split so the room works morning and evening. See hospitality electricians.
- External lighting
- Car parks, entrances, yards, signage supplies and security lighting.
- Lighting controls
- Presence detection, daylight linking, time switching and sensible circuit zoning - specified where they genuinely earn their place.
- Emergency lighting
- Installed alongside general lighting while access is already in place. See emergency lighting.
Retail lighting
Retail lighting: set-out matters more than the fitting
Track lighting is the standard answer for retail because you can move the heads as your merchandising changes. What you cannot move is the track.
So the useful conversation is not about which spotlight to buy. It is about where the wall bays are going, where the gondolas sit, where the till point is, and how the window display gets lit and switched independently of the shop floor.
That has to be settled before the ceiling closes and before the shopfitter finishes. Retrofitting track into a completed shop is possible and considerably more expensive than doing it in the right order.
Working with us
How easy it is to arrange a commercial lighting installation
Zone by zone, with each area handed back as it is finished.
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Tell us about the job
Send us the premises type, what you need doing and when you need it done. If you have drawings, a schedule or a previous report, send those too.
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We survey and estimate
We look at the installation, agree the scope with you and put it in writing. You get an estimate you can take to whoever signs it off.
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We book the work around you
We agree dates that suit your operation, turn up when we said we would, and hand over the certification when the work is finished.
Commercial lighting across Surrey
We install and upgrade commercial lighting throughout Surrey, in office floors, school halls, shop units and hospitality venues. For the wider picture of what we do, see our commercial electricians in Surrey page.
Lighting is often installed alongside emergency lighting while access equipment is already in place.
More services
Other commercial electrical services we offer in Surrey
Most jobs cross more than one of these. If yours does, say so when you enquire and we will estimate it as one piece of work.
Commercial EICR Testing in Surrey
Periodic inspection and testing of your fixed installation, with a clear report you can act on and hand to your insurer.
Commercial Electrical Maintenance and Repairs in Surrey
Fault finding, repairs and planned maintenance that keep your premises trading and your staff working.
Emergency Lighting in Surrey
Emergency lighting installation, additions and periodic testing, with the certification and logbook entries to match.
Commercial Rewiring and Upgrades in Surrey
Partial and full rewires, distribution upgrades and containment renewal, phased so your premises stays open.
Commercial Fire Alarm Systems in Surrey
Fire alarm installation, extensions, alterations and servicing for commercial and education premises.
Get in touch
Send us a message
If you're in need of trusted commercial electricians, we'd be delighted to assist. Provide a little bit of information in the form below and we'll be back to you within 24 hours to discuss further. There is no charge for the conversation or the estimate, and no obligation to proceed.
Questions we get asked
Commercial lighting questions
What businesses ask before committing to a lighting replacement.
Is it worth replacing fluorescent fittings with LED?
In most commercial buildings with older fluorescent fittings, yes. LED draws less power, lasts considerably longer, and removes the maintenance cycle of replacing tubes and failed control gear.
The size of the saving depends on how many hours your lights are on, how many fittings you have and what you are paying per unit, so it is not a number we can put on a page. We can tell you the fitting count and the load before and after, which is what you need to work it out for your building.
Can you swap the fittings without replacing the wiring?
Often yes, particularly in a suspended ceiling grid where the new panel goes into the same aperture and onto the existing circuit. That is the quickest and least disruptive kind of lighting job.
It is not always possible. If the existing wiring is in poor condition, if the circuit arrangement will not suit the new layout, or if you are changing where the fittings go, then more of the installation has to change. We tell you which situation you are in after the survey.
Do we need lighting controls, or are they a gimmick?
It depends entirely on the building. In spaces that are intermittently occupied, such as corridors, stores, toilets and meeting rooms, presence detection genuinely reduces run hours. In a space that is occupied continuously all day, it saves very little and adds something else to go wrong.
The control that pays for itself most often is the least sophisticated one: splitting the circuits sensibly so people can switch off the part of the building nobody is in.
How disruptive is a lighting replacement?
A like-for-like panel swap in a grid ceiling is one of the least disruptive commercial electrical jobs there is. We work zone by zone, and each zone is usually back in use the same day.
It gets more involved when the ceiling is not a grid, when the layout changes, or when the wiring needs replacing too. Those jobs get phased or moved outside your operating hours.
Can you do the lighting for a shop fit-out?
Yes. Retail lighting is its own discipline: track set-out, display and window lighting, and switching arranged so the window can run when the shop is closed. It has to be planned against the fixture layout, and it has to be installed before the ceiling closes.
See shop and retail electricians for how we handle retail premises.
Do you install emergency lighting at the same time?
It is usually sensible to. If the access equipment is already up and the ceiling is already open, adding or replacing emergency lighting at the same time costs far less than coming back to do it separately.
See emergency lighting.
Upgrading the lighting at your premises?
Send us the building and the fitting count, and we will survey it and come back with a free estimate.