Once a month, we use an emergency light test key to briefly cut power to your circuits and watch what happens next. Every light should switch straight to battery power, no delay, no flicker, no gaps. This is the emergency lighting flick test small, fast, and easy to overlook, which is exactly why it gets missed so often. We don’t overlook it. We check every fitting, not just a sample, because a fault in one corner of a building is still a fault. Bulbs dim before they die. LEDs develop dead spots. Batteries lose charge quietly, months before they fail outright. These monthly emergency light checks catch all of it early, while a fix is still cheap and simple before it turns into an emergency you didn’t see coming. And because building regulations expect these emergency lighting tests monthly, staying on top of them keeps you compliant without you having to think about it.

This is the big one: your annual emergency lighting system test, and it pulls everything together. Once a year, one of our qualified engineers works through your entire emergency lighting system from top to bottom. That means a full duration test, a physical check of every fitting and circuit, a review of battery health and charging performance, and a direct comparison against British Standard BS 5266, the rulebook your system is legally expected to follow. We check things a monthly test simply can’t catch: corrosion inside fittings, circuits under strain, components nearing the end of their working life. You get a full written report at the end, showing exactly where your system stands and what, if anything, needs attention. This is the document that proves compliance if a fire officer, insurer, or auditor ever comes asking. Skip it, and you’re relying on hope. Book it, and you know.

Nobody wants to sit through a report full of technical terms they need to Google. So we don’t write them that way. When we find a fault a dead LED, a failing battery, a circuit that’s not holding load we tell you in plain English: what it is, where it is, why it matters, and how urgent it is. Some faults need fixing that week. Others can wait for your next scheduled visit. We tell you which is which, so you can make a fast decision without needing an engineering degree to understand the problem. No inflated urgency to sell you extra work. Just an honest answer.

A light switching on tells you half the story. The fitting itself tells you the rest. We check the physical condition of every fitting and every set of emergency light circuit casings, seals, mounting, and wiring connections because a loose connection or a cracked casing can take a system from “working” to “failing” without any warning sign in between. Worn circuits are a common, quiet cause of emergency lighting fittings underperforming or cutting out early, and they don’t always show up in a basic power test. We look for them anyway, because how long your emergency lighting lasts often comes down to details this small.