For those of you that know what we do, we are a commercial electrical contractors working in Nottingham, Derby and beyond. The vast majority of the electrical work involves working with companies who are completing office fit-outs and refurbishments. With this comes a lot of business owners who would like to know why the electrical work of an office fit-out or refurbishment is important.
I’d like to use this blog post to explain why making sure you look at the electrical works as part of your office refurbishment is vital.
Outdated Wiring
A lot of the office refurbishment work we are called in to look at involves buildings that were completed during the 90s, or earlier. With this, inevitably, comes outdated wiring.
The problem arises when companies start plugging lots of newer equipment into old plugs. Issues will start to occur including shorts, fuses being blown and even power cuts to your building. Bringing in a commercial electrical company to look at updating the wiring to make sure it can cope with what you will be using it for. This might be a cost upfront, but with the savings your business will make by cutting out potential shorts and power failures, the payback time is a lot shorter than you might think!
It Allows More Vibrant Lighting
This point applies especially if you are moving into an older building. If your company moves into an older building, there is a good chance that the lighting used within the building uses old filament bulbs. This is normally down to the fact that none of the previous landlords or tenants have brought in a commercial electrical contractor to complete an LED conversion.
Now is the best time to complete an LED conversion as, due to the energy saving, the payback for converting your building to LEDs is less than two years! However, there is also another reason that more and more companies are choosing to convert to LED lighting within their offices. Adding vibrance!
LED lighting allows companies to create very aesthetically pleasing lighting schemes within their buildings, take a look at one we completed for JD Garage Equipment in Hull!
LEDs allow you to do this kind of thing as they are easy and cost effective to run throughout your working hours and, thanks to colour-changing LEDs, you can now have them in your brand colours as well!
Completing Electrical Work Will Save You Money!
One of the main reasons for making sure the electrical capabilities of your building are in line with the requirements of your office refurbishment is because of the cost savings! We have mentioned before that switching to LEDs will save you money year on year when compared to filament bulbs. And, of course, allows you to promote your brand in a very smart but subtle way within your office refurbishment.
We also know that when the wiring of your building is not going to be able to cope with what you are using the building for, the risk of power failures and other serious issues is very high! If you were to suffer a power failure during a working day, the costs to your business could be astronomical! This can be in a variety of different ways including missed enquiries, lost business or data loss!
Making sure the building’s electrics are capable of holding the needs of the business is paramount to a successful office refurbishment.
For more information about our commercial electrical services, get in touch with us today. We cover Nottingham, Derby, Leicester and beyond!
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