95 - Repair of computers and personal and household goods

This Chapter has been extracted from the ONS Explanatory Notes and provides a more detailed explanation of possible activities that could fall within the SIC Codes related to the Chapter.

This division includes the repair and maintenance of computers peripheral equipment such as desktops, laptops, computer terminals, storage devices and printers. It also includes the repair of communications equipment such as fax machines, two-way radios and consumer electronics such as radios and TVs, home and garden equipment such as lawn-mowers and blowers, footwear and leather goods, furniture and home furnishings, clothing and clothing accessories, sporting goods, musical instruments, hobby articles and other personal and household goods.

Excluded from this division is the repair of medical and diagnostic imaging equipment, measuring and surveying instruments, laboratory instruments, radar and sonar equipment, see 33.13.

95.1 Repair of computers and communication equipment

This group includes the repair and maintenance of computers and peripheral equipment and communications equipment.

This group includes the repair of electronic equipment, such as computers and computing machinery and peripheral equipment

95.11 Repair of computers and peripheral equipment

This class includes the repair and maintenance of:
- desktop computers
- laptop computers
- magnetic disk drives, flash drives and other storage devices
- optical disk drives (CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW)
- printers
- monitors
- keyboards
- mice, joysticks, and trackball accessories
- internal and external computer modems
- dedicated computer terminals
- computer servers
- scanners, including bar code scanners
- smart card readers
- virtual reality helmets
- computer projectors

This class also includes the repair and maintenance of:
- computer terminals like automatic teller machines (ATM's); point-of-sale (POS) terminals, not mechanically operated
- hand-held computers (PDA's)

This class excludes:
- the repair and maintenance of carrier equipment modems, see 95.12

95.12 Repair of communication equipment

This class includes repair and maintenance of communications equipment such as:
- cordless telephones
- cellular phones
- carrier equipment modems
- fax machines
- communications transmission equipment (e.g. routers, bridges, modems)
- two-way radios
- commercial TV and video cameras

95.2 Repair of personal and household goods

This group includes the repair and servicing of personal and household goods.

95.21 Repair of consumer electronics

This class includes repair and maintenance of consumer electronics:
- repair of consumer electronics:
• television, radio receivers
• video cassette recorders (VCR)
• CD players
• household-type video cameras

95.22 Repair of household appliances and home and garden equipment

This class includes the repair and servicing household appliances and home and garden equipment:
- repair and servicing of household appliances
• refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, clothes dryers, room air conditioners, etc.
- repair and servicing of home and garden equipment
• lawnmowers, edgers, snow and leaf blowers, trimmers, etc.

This class excludes:
- repair of hand held power tools, see 33.12
- repair of central air conditioning systems, see 43.22

95.23 Repair of footwear and leather goods

This class includes repair and maintenance of footwear and leather goods:
- repair of boots, shoes, luggage and the like
- fitting of heels

95.24 Repair of furniture and home furnishings

This class includes:
- reupholstering, refinishing, repairing and restoring of furniture and home furnishings including office furniture

95.25 Repair of watches, clocks and jewellery

This class includes:
- repair of watches, clocks and their parts such as watch cases and housings of all materials; movements, chronometers, etc.
- repair of jewellery

This class excludes:
- industrial engraving of metals, see 25.61
- repair of time clocks, time/date stamps, time locks and similar time recording devices, see 33.13

95.29 Repair of other personal and household goods

This class includes repair of personal and household goods:
- repair of bicycles
- repair and alteration of clothing
- repair of sporting goods (except sporting guns) and camping equipment
- repair of books
- repair of musical instruments (except organs and historical musical instruments)
- repair of toys and similar articles
- repair of other personal and household goods
- piano-tuning

This class excludes:
- repair of hand held power tools, see 33.12
- repair of sporting and recreational guns, 33.11

 

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