Of Gas and Electricity

I think you DO have to 'fill in a form' these days to get the discount. I remember helping someone translate a letter last year, and my recollection is that it came from the GPL supplier, but I'm not 100% sure about that. The comune should be able to help point you in the right direction. If you go onto your comune website and search for "zone non metanizzate" you'll probably find something. Good luck! Regarding the re-wiring - it is sometimes difficult if you don't have a whole house installation done, because the electrician may well suggest that he'll do it without a certificate. The snag from his point of view is, if he agrees to certificate the work, he is in effect taking responsibility for everything - even though a different electrician has had a hand in it. Speak to the electrician who did the recent work and ask him if he will give you a certificate.

Technically, for electrical systems you require at least a DIA.  However, you must have it certified, otherwise you can't sell your house.  You can pay the original electricial if he is qualified to issue a certificate, though you will find another to certify the plant even though you will pay over the odds... 

i think you can sell your house even without a certificate although it will loose you money.. by signing a decleration at the act in front of the notary that the services have not been checked and are not certified  

In response to adriatica - it is good that he points out that you CAN sell your house without any certification (plumbing or electrical), which means you have the option to chase up the certification (or just forget about  it). If you can get the certification (often this involves only asking for it, frequently it isn't 'offered') then it is worthwhile having it, and you can 'demand' certification if one plumber or one electrician has done the whole job - but it is not the end of the world if (for whatever reason) you have not got your impianti certificati.

You can only sell without certification if you say that you have never touched the system and it is at it was when it was installed.  That could be 50 years old.  If you have done work and want the buyers to know it must be certified.

What is the value of the certifiaction for the buyer - if one discovers, as we did, that part of the plumming is broken and we had to tear down a big part of the outer wall in order to fix it.

to be honest, certification has no value at all apart from in new builds or fully renovated property..as in almost a new build, what happens at the moment is that you pay a geometra a few 100 euro and you get a certificate for the act.. its just another way that they have the right to take money off of you.. of course you have to make your own choices and do the best for you, but when buying you can consider it just as much value as a survey for example in the UK, unless you are buying new.. it means and does nothing and thats basically it

Thanks for the reponses. I will chase up the electrician for a certificate as I think he should be able to supply one. That said I think that, for us, it is probably only a box ticking exercise/ means of recourse to the electrician if anything goes wrong over the next few years. We dont have any intention of selling and if our kids  do decide to sell (which hopefully will be at least 20 years in the future!!) I guess a 20 year old certificate wont have much relevance then and they would have to get new certification at that time anyway. Richard

We are buying a fully renovated property from a developer. Will we automatically get a certificate guaranteeing the plumbing and electrical work from the developer, or do we have to ask for one from the contractors? And what is the DIA that Ram referred to? Thanks in advance for any replies.