Cable tray
Perforated and return flange, set out straight and level, cut ends deburred and capped.
Commercial & containment
Commercial electrical work and cable containment across Kent
Shops, offices, cafes, warehouses and units being fitted out. Containment, distribution, power, lighting, and the maintenance that keeps it running afterwards. Lanaway Electrical is Lanaway Organisation Ltd, company number 16879639, and it is two people: Louis and his son Finley, working out of Folkestone across Kent. That is the whole firm, and it is the point. The person who prices your job is the person you ring when something goes wrong, and the price is fixed and agreed before anything starts.
What we do on commercial sites
Tube work
Steel and PVC conduit, bent on site, saddled at proper centres, runs square to the building.
Ladder rack
Heavier horizontal runs and risers for the big cable, spliced and fixed so nothing moves under the pull.
Box trunking
Square section with a lift off lid, so the run stays accessible long after the fit out.
Heavy duty pulls
Off the drum, over the rollers, through the bends and into the run, without stretching or scoring anything.
Armoured cable
SWA sub mains to units, plant and outbuildings, glanded and terminated properly.
Boards and power
Distribution boards, sub mains, small power and the circuits that feed the floor.
How we price commercial work
Commercial is priced after a look, and there is no honest way round that. Two units the same size can be a week apart in labour depending on what is above the ceiling and what is already in the ground. Anyone quoting a commercial fit out down the phone is guessing, and a guess gets corrected on your invoice.
So it goes like this. Send drawings, a scope, or just photos of the area, enough to see what the runs are. Louis comes and looks. Quote visits are usually Friday evenings or Saturday mornings, because he is out on jobs Monday to Friday. You get a fixed price in writing before anything starts, and the number agreed is the number invoiced.
What moves a price:
- Length and difficulty of the runs, and how much of it is straight.
- Height and access. Everything above three metres costs time before it costs cable.
- What you are fixing to. Blockwork, steel and plasterboard are three different jobs.
- Whether the existing board has spare capacity or a new one is needed.
- How much has to happen outside trading hours.
- How much of the space you can hand over at once, and who else is working in it.
What does not move it: us finding the job harder than we expected. If we have seen it and priced it, that is our problem, not a variation. Genuine changes to the scope are priced and agreed before they are done, never added at the end.
Smaller work and maintenance visits run on the published rate, £80 for the first hour and £48 an hour after that, and a fault find is £80 to £180. Those are a guide, not a quote. Fixed price once we have seen the job. The rest of the price guide is on the site so you can see what we charge before you ring.
We are not VAT registered, so there is no VAT on the invoice. On commercial that matters less than it sounds, because a business that is registered for VAT reclaims it anyway. It is a real saving on domestic work and we only claim it there.
Why us
We are not going to tell you we are the biggest or the oldest, because we are neither. The company was incorporated in November 2025 and there are two of us. Here is what is true, and what it is worth on your site.
- The man who prices it is the man who does it. No estimator handing a job to a fitter who has never read the quote. No chain of subcontractors between you and the person doing the work. No call centre in between. You have Louis's mobile number, and he was stood in the room when the price was worked out.
- Containment is judged on the wall, not in a brochure. Straight, level, supported at proper centres, cut ends finished, joints made properly. There is warehouse cable containment, commercial distribution board work and cafe pendant lighting photographed on this site. They are our jobs. Look at the lines and decide for yourself, which is a fairer test than anything we could write here.
- A fixed price before work starts. You are not carrying the risk of us misreading the job.
- Two people means honest capacity. If your programme is bigger than we can hold, you are told at the quote stage rather than in week three. A firm that never turns work down is a firm that will one day be somewhere else when you need it.
- Reviews you can read. 5.0 on Google from 14 reviews, and 17 published on this site in total, including the Facebook recommendations.
All completed work is inspected, tested and certificated through a registered contractor we work with, and we provide all the required certificates.
Questions we get asked
Can you work round our trading hours and our programme?
Tell us the hours in your first message and the quote comes back built around them instead of needing a second conversation. Louis and the team are out on jobs Monday to Friday, so out of hours work is a scheduling question, and you will get a straight yes or no on your dates rather than a maybe. Where one long shutdown is not an option, the work can be staged over several visits so you lose an hour at a time instead of a day.
What do we get at the end, for the file?
All completed work is inspected, tested and certificated through a registered contractor we work with, and we provide all the required certificates. Tell us at the start what your handover file needs and it gets built as the job goes rather than chased afterwards.
How big a job will you take on?
Single runs through to full fit outs and refits: containment packages, board changes, sub mains, lighting schemes and maintenance for shops, offices, cafes, warehouses and small industrial units. Two people sets a ceiling, and that ceiling gets stated at the quote instead of discovered halfway through. If the job is too big for us, we will say so and you have lost nothing but the look.
Who is actually on site?
Louis and Finley do the work, start to finish. The inspection and testing is done by the registered contractor we work with, so nobody has to be told twice what the job is and nothing gets lost between the quote and the work. On a busy site that is worth more than it sounds.
Send us the job
Drawings, a scope, or just photos of the area, enough to see what the runs are. You get a price or a clear next step back, and nobody turns up unless you ask them to.
Ring 07840 429873, email info@lanawayelectrical.co.uk, or send the details through the form. If you want to see the rest of what we do first, the full list is on the services page.