Test and Tag Avonhead

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Most businesses own more plug-in gear than they realise: heaters, kettles, computers, chargers, power boards, extension leads and power tools. We work through every room, workshop and storeroom at your Avonhead premises so nothing is skipped, and can test before opening, after hours or in stages to keep your team working.

Avonhead Mall, Sports Grounds and Growing Classrooms

Avonhead Mall has served the suburb since the 1960s, and like most neighbourhood centres it mixes food, retail and service businesses, each with its own small set of counter, kitchen and office equipment. Smaller tenancies can usually be finished in a single early visit. The cold here is a bigger factor than in many suburbs, because Christchurch Airport next door averages about 50 nights a year below freezing compared with 23 in the city centre, so heaters in shops and back rooms run for months and are worth testing before winter.

Avonhead Park, Crosbie Park and Ferrier Park give local sports clubs their grounds, and clubrooms tend to hold urns, fridges, heaters, scoreboards on plugs and speakers. Gear carried out to the sideline on a wet Saturday should run through a portable RCD, and the RCD itself is tested and push-button checked as part of the visit.

Avonhead School opened in 1959 and has grown to 22 classrooms to cope with overcrowding. Growth like that brings new devices, extra chargers and relocatable classrooms fed by extension leads, which is exactly where testing tends to find tired cords and overloaded boards. A full round in the holidays sets every new item on the register with a retest date that suits how it is used. Older relocatable rooms are often the best place to start, since their leads have usually been in place longest.

Local tip: Avonhead sports clubs can test sideline gear at the start of the season, before it spends months going in and out of wet car boots.

Test and Tag in Avonhead: Local Conditions

West Christchurch takes in the Sockburn industrial estates beside Hornby, retail around Riccarton and Hornby, and education sites near the University of Canterbury in Ilam. Larger sites can be tested in stages.

Christchurch winters bring portable heaters out of storage.

Homes in Avonhead

Avonhead's mid-century homes were mostly wired in plastic-sheathed cable, which ages well, but the boards often have rewireable fuses or early breakers, few spare ways and RCD protection on some circuits or none. The 1940s homes are old enough that rubber-insulated cable may still be present and should be checked. A renovation is a good time to bring the board up to current rules.

Nearby Christchurch Airport averages 50 nights a year below 0°C, compared with 23 in the city centre.

Our electricians are in and around Avonhead Mall and Avonhead Park and the rest of Avonhead most weeks. For everything else, see electricians in Avonhead.

How We Handle Test and Tag in Avonhead

Anything that fails in Avonhead is labelled and removed from use, and you hear about it before we leave. With your approval we replace failed plugs, leads and power boards.

Pricing: a free quote and a fixed price agreed before we start. You get a written, itemised quote, and small jobs can be quoted from photos.

Test and Tag Jobs We Do in Avonhead

Extension lead and power board testing
Workshop power tools
Early childhood centre equipment
Warehouse testing in stages
Office equipment test and tag