Industrial commando plugs

We can PAT test electrical equipment with industrial type plugs but there is different ways of pricing such work due to the extra time it takes to inspect them and the fact that there are a lot more repairs required with such equipment.

We can’t offer the cheapest prices for these appliances, and we always recommend you contact us for a personal price, but in most cases we will be charging per hour for such work.

If you’re booking us to PAT test your business, say the office, and have a few tools that need doing as well, we’re likely to do them at the same rate, but for a job where we have to wander around a big factory looking for appliances we’re going to charge a more time-based rate.

400v (red) or three-phase equipment is different; we can check these but there are many different types and we don’t have every adaptor so we will do our best to help you with these. We only do 400v equipment on our hourly rate, unless you have the odd one or two mixed in with a bigger job then we charge a fixed rate of £2.00 per item.

Industrial or Site using cable mount plugs 16amps + is a bit more specialised, and in practice very different to PAT testing standard 13amp plugs. The engineer needs a different toolkit, specialist testing equipment and adaptors for all the different types of cable mount plug available, and all that adds up to a lot more money to set up to do.

If you have 400v equipment we recommend you contact as a specialist 3-phase electrical company; such connectors can be wired in many different formats and so they need an industrial electrical engineer to check them fully. We can do basic checks on certain types but there are so many options you’d be better seeking an expert. We can however help with single phase, 110v or 230v connectors as well as normal ’13 amp’ plugs.

If you book us to do a job and inform us that there are 110v (yellow) and 230v (blue) single phase appliances to test then we will quote for these, but if you don’t tell us you run the risk of us not being able to do them at that appointment, as we don’t always carry these adaptors or the necessary toolkit for repairs.

If we can do them, there is a standard charge of £1.50 per appliance, + vat. If we can’t a new quote will be provided to return another day.

In general we usually quote for these as a fixed price for the job, or a time-based price.