Electrical Services for Schools, Colleges and Academies

Lake Electrical offers professional electrical services for schools, colleges and academies. It is vital that they must be safe, compliant, and properly documented to meet regulatory, safeguarding, and insurance standards.

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School EICRs and fixed installation testing

Lake Electrical works with school business managers, academy trusts, and estates teams across Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex, providing professional electrical testing, certification, and installation services.

Lake Electrical carries out Electrical Installation Condition Reports (EICRs) in line with current wiring regulations (BS 7671:2018+A2:2022). Our inspections cover fixed wiring systems, distribution boards, circuit protection devices, earthing arrangements, and related electrical accessories.

Testing is carried out using calibrated equipment, with all findings risk-coded to highlight immediate safety issues, required remedial work, and recommended improvements. Once complete, formal certification is issued to provide clear evidence of compliance for academy trusts, insurers, and local authorities.

Staffing carrying out Electrical Services for Schools, Colleges and Academies

Testing is carried out using calibrated instruments, with results assessed against current regulatory standards. Observations are risk-coded to highlight immediate safety issues, required remedial works, and recommended improvements that support ongoing compliance.

Once complete, formal certification is issued, providing documented evidence of inspection for insurers, commercial landlords, managing agents, and compliance records.

Lighting upgrades, maintenance and installation works

Educational environments often include a mix of modern electrical systems and older legacy wiring, which require ongoing maintenance and planned upgrades.

Lake Electrical installs energy-efficient LED lighting in classrooms, halls, sports facilities, and external areas, improving light quality while reducing energy use and long-term maintenance costs.

Our planned maintenance programmes include scheduled inspections, emergency lighting testing to BS 5266 standards, and full compliance documentation.

We also deliver electrical installation works for new classrooms, ICT infrastructure, science labs, catering areas, and refurbishment projects, all carried out by DBS-checked engineers working under strict site safety procedures.

Electrical remedial works following inspection

Where inspection reports identify Code C1, C2, or further investigation (FI) observations, Lake Electrical provides fully certified remedial works. These may include upgrading distribution boards, installing RCD or RCBO protection, correcting circuit issues, and improving earthing and bonding arrangements.

All remedial work is retested and certified on completion, ensuring full compliance with current regulations.

Supporting education providers across the South East

Lake Electrical specialises in electrical services for schools, colleges and academies across the south east including Kent, Sussex, Surrey and London. We work in the education sector, to deliver certified inspections, compliance reporting, and professionally managed installation and maintenance programmes.

 

FAQs - Regulatory Standards and Compliance Requirements

  1. BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 (IET Wiring Regulations)
     Defines the requirements for the design, installation, inspection and testing of electrical installations
  2. Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
     Require duty holders to maintain electrical systems in a condition that prevents danger to staff, pupils and visitors.
  3. BS 5266 Emergency Lighting Standards
     Sets the inspection and testing requirements for emergency lighting systems in education environment
  4. NICEIC Certification Standards

We work on many projects, including electrical contracts for offices and businesses, churches and places of worship plus high end luxury homes

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Customer Testimonials

Our clients love the efficiency and professionalism.

"Lake Electrical were selected from the short-list of contractors because not only was the value appropriate but the quality of service, trustworthiness & finished product was a guarantee. The electrical works undertaken & service you get when dealing with them is first class & I would be happy to recommend them to others. We'll continue working with them going forward."

Cameron

Farringdon, London

"We are delighted with the results, particularly the effect the lighting has had on brightening up the interior and making it so much easier to read our hymn books – and most importantly, The Bible! We love being able to dim and brighten the lights as necessary and you were very helpful once the project was complete in adjusting the angle of the lights to get the beams just right. We found you and your staff friendly, co-operative and professional throughout the project, with an understanding of the needs of an operational church, ensuring materials were cleared away and the church was safe and the electrics usable for service on the Sundays. Your adaptability in making sure that what was provided was workable and fitted well with the historical fabric was also much appreciated. As with all projects some changes were inevitable and we were very happy with the way these were suggested and dealt with. We would be happy to recommend your services to other churches for this type of work."

Heather Knowler

Chart Sutton

"It is essential in our industry to have a great relationship with an electrician or electrical support service and we have that in Lake. The confidence to know we have professionals to help you get back up and running or to give you valued advice to keep our operation running smoothly is invaluable. We highly value our relationship with Lake. Simply they are utterly reliable, highly professional & really great people!"

Cameron Leslie

Farringdon, London

"On behalf of our management company I'd like to say thanks for the extremely helpful and professional service given by you, Lucy and your colleagues. During the planning and decision making period you answered a number of queries over an extended period and offered alternatives we hadn't asked for or were unaware of. We thought this great service. Thanks too for honouring a quote which was some months old by the time we made a decision! You and your colleagues were very polite, organised and unobtrusive yesterday. We would like to extend our thanks and compliments for this and for the great clearance after the work – the hallways were left spotless! Our cleaner came today and was very impressed!"

Clare

Tonbridge

"Lake Electrical's team worked seamlessly with all the other contractors & assisted them when required to ensure the sequence of works remained on course."

Mark Cooper, Enaflo Interiors Ltd

Paddock Wood

"I found the staff at Lake Electrical to be efficient, courteous and unobtrusive. They were very knowledgeable and came up with some really innovative lighting solutions. I'm delighted with their work and would wholeheartedly recommend them."

Michelle

Tunbridge Wells

"Thank you for a brilliant job, 5 star service!"

Carrie

Tonbridge

"I would have no reservations about recommending their services to prospective customers or other businesses that are looking to work with a professional electrical contractor."

Sharon

Kent

"Very neat, efficient workmanship, would recommend Lake Electrical Ltd to anybody!"

John

Tunbridge Wells