Dinsa Advises to avoid the bad praxis in the Energetic Certification of Houses

Dinsa, first company TIC certified by Aenor in supplies and installation of equipments of energetic efficiency, has detected cases in which companies or professional, real or supposed, are realizar energetic certificates that infringen the legislation and can involve to the own consumers.

According to the company, the process of certification has two bases: a technological, use of suitable programs, and another human, that is in which incide Luis Cabrera, responsible of energetic efficiency of Dinsa, when affirming that “of average, the study for the energetic certification needs around 5 hours of work to realizar with guarantees. Inside this, would go in the visit to the real estate, the collected and treatment of the data, the analysis detailed, the proposals of improvement and other formalities. If we multiply these 5 hours by the wage of a professional specialist, already can go doing us an idea of which has to be the cost approximated simply of the hand of work in an energetic certificate”.

In front of the apparition of bad praxis in the tarificación of the service, the Ministry of the Treasury and Public Administrations has published a resolution by which establish official prices for the expedition of the Energetic Certificates in all the national territory. Like this for houses of until 80 m² the price is of 184,34 € (VAT no included), and of 222,69 € (VAT no included) until 150 m²; to these amounts it is necessary to add 20 € (more VAT) by the processing of the register of the certificate in front of the competent authority.

“Before hiring to a company to transact the certificate of energetic efficiency, I always would recommend to the consumer that ensured that it will visit the real estate”, affirms Cabrera. “The professionals of the sector generally have previous experience, provable and contrasted in matters like energetic auditss or projects of energetic efficiency. I would avoid to turncoats and pirate in the measure of the possible, because, looking for empty legal to reduce costs to the maximum, can finish involving to the owner in his fraudulent practices”.

In the greater part of Europe, the prices of the energetic certificates oscillate between the 200 and 600 euros, with exceptions very striking like Denmark (from 730 euros by law) and United Kingdom (above 1.000 euros). The rule approved by Spain, in force from 20 November 2013, situates this cost in 184 euros, one of the most competitive.

The energetic certification of buildings is necessary from 1 June for any operation of dealers and rent of houses in Spain, what turns it into a new procedure and stranger and a sector where it is necessary to have a special care in the election of the professionals that realizar the certificates.