For periodic inspections, the original installations are the owner's responsibility, and everything you have had installed since — kitchen, partitions, machines, charging station — is your responsibility as the operator.
New work must be declared to the grid operator (electricity distributor) and inspected by your electrician. Then, within 6 months, we carry out the acceptance inspection for you under the OIBT (the Swiss Low-Voltage Installations Ordinance) — without stopping your business.
The original installations belong to the owner; what you had installed afterwards is your responsibility — and the OIBT requires you, as the operator, to report any defect you notice without delay.
We inspect one workstation at a time. Without disrupting your activity, during your quiet hours.
One amount announced beforehand, all inclusive, report included. No hours appearing along the way, no second-visit charge as long as the appointment stands.
The shop unit converted in 2019, the partition in the back office, the compressor, the charging station: each of these jobs should have been declared to the grid operator by the electrician, then followed by an acceptance inspection by an independent body within 6 months. Almost nobody orders it — and you are the one held liable at the next inspection. We regularise: inspection of the installation as it stands, defects listed, file put back in order.
A photo of the letter from your grid operator, or simply a description of your premises and the work done. You receive a written answer: what falls to the owner, what falls to you, and what needs to be inspected.
Assess my premisesYes. Depending on how the premises are used, a new inspection comes round every 5 or 10 years (5 years for SH3 installations without a separate protective earth conductor, whatever the use), not counting the acceptance inspection due within 6 months of any work — that is a long time, and it gets forgotten.
Because they worked on your installation: the law then forbids them from inspecting it. They keep everything else, and any corrections are theirs to make.
It can be regularised. That work should have been declared to the grid operator and followed by an acceptance inspection — we inspect the installation as it stands, list any defects, and the file is put back in order. Better to do it now than to discover it during a claim or a periodic or spot inspection by the grid operator.
You receive a list: what, where, and by when. Your electrician corrects, lets us know it is done, and we close the file.