Video for electricians: putting a registered face on the job

A landlord has three EICRs due across a small portfolio and a shortlist of two registered electricians. On paper he cannot separate them: both hold the certification, both quote sensibly, both have reviews. He watches a ninety-second film on one firm's site, the electrician talking through how he inspects and certifies a rented property, a real EICR job on screen, a tenant thanking him for turning up when promised. That firm now feels like a safe pair of hands for the whole portfolio. The decision was made before either electrician answered the phone.

This is what sets your trade apart. Choosing an electrician is fundamentally a safety judgement, whether it is a landlord protecting himself against a £30,000 penalty for a missing EICR or a homeowner worried about the smell near the fuse board. People are not buying a price, they are deciding whether to trust a stranger with something that can hurt them. Seeing and hearing a real registered person answers that in a way words on a page never will.

The maths makes it sharper still. There are around 50,400 electrical firms in the UK, mostly small local outfits that look near-identical online, right down to matching Part P registration. Video is one of the few levers that makes you unmistakably you. For the wider picture, start with our full guide to marketing for electricians.

Honest, brief and useful. It shows the people, the work and the standard so the customer feels they have met you already. It never strains to be a television advert.

Start with a genuine team introduction: plain workwear, real faces, the van, and a clear line that you are registered and self-certify your notifiable work. Add a handful of real-job walkthroughs shot on a phone as you go, a minute or two each on an actual consumer unit, rewire or fault-find. Round it off with a couple of customers filmed in their own homes rather than reading a script, because a wary homeowner trusts another homeowner long before they trust the electrician.

Where it lives matters as much as what it says. Good video is placed where the decision happens: the homepage, each service page, the Google Business Profile, even attached to a quote. It is not lumped in with everything else on one crowded page where the customer cannot find it. Clips cut from the anchor film double as social posts, and our social media guide for trades businesses covers which platforms are worth an electrician's time. Landlords should see an EICR job; homeowners should see a fuse board done right. Among around 50,400 UK electrical firms, that visible, credible presence is the difference between the one who gets called and the one who never knew they were passed over. Real people, real jobs, real voices, ahead of stock footage every time.

Audit the foundations first, honestly. If reviews are arriving, your site works and states your registration, and calls get answered, you are ready to let video amplify what is already there. If any of that is wobbly, steady it first, because video pushes people towards your presence and your presence has to bear the weight.

Then keep the first attempt small and genuine. On the next job you are proud of, a clean consumer unit swap or a neat rewire, spend two minutes at the end filming a walkthrough on your phone. Have someone hold the camera while you say, in your own words, who you are, that you are registered, and how you work. That rough footage will teach you more about what actually converts than any guide, and it costs nothing but a bit of nerve.

When you want the anchor film made properly, or you would rather hand it over entirely, our video production service exists to make honest video that shows the people and the work, not to chase an advertising award. Either way, book a 30-minute growth call and we will tell you straight whether video is your next best spend, or whether something else deserves the money first.