Electrical Contractors Editing and Proofreading Services

A condition report lands on a landlord's desk with fourteen observations on it. Three are coded in a way that means somebody could be electrocuted this week; the rest range from mildly untidy to a recommendation. The landlord is not an electrician, reads the summary, sees the word "unsatisfactory", and either panics about everything or fixes the cheapest items and files the report.

We edit what electrical contractors produce — electrical installation condition reports and their observations, installation and minor works certificates, observation coding and its explanation for clients, quotations for remedial work arising from reports, test result schedules and their presentation, design and load documentation for installations, periodic inspection frequency recommendations, landlord and duty holder guidance, method statements for live and dead working, handover and operation documentation, and fault-finding and repair reports. Our editors work on the report a non-electrician has to act on.

The observation and its coding is where a condition report either produces action or produces filing, and the failure is a code letter with a clinical phrase after it. "C2 — Potentially dangerous" beside "absence of RCD protection to socket circuit" tells a landlord nothing about what could happen to whom. We work through these so each observation states the location precisely enough to be found — which board, which way, which room — since the electrician quoting for the remedial work should not have to survey the building again; so the code is accompanied by a plain sentence saying what could actually happen and to whom, because the difference between a code that means somebody could die and one that means the labelling is untidy is not conveyed by a letter; so the recommended remedy is specific enough to be priced, given that a report producing four wildly different quotations has failed the client; so anything requiring urgent attention is separated physically at the top rather than sorted into the table by circuit number; so limitations are stated in the same way — what could not be tested, what was not accessible, and what that means for the overall assessment; and so the summary says plainly what the client must do first, second and when. Reports written this way get the dangerous things fixed.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including reports, test results and client information. We are editors rather than electricians or inspectors, and we offer no view on coding, test results, compliance or remedial work. What we can do is make the report tell a landlord what to do first.