Electrical COC in Pretoria East: Selling? Sort the Certificate First.

What the law actually says

The Electrical Installation Regulations, 2009 (issued under the Occupational Health and Safety Act) require the user or lessor of an electrical installation to have a valid certificate of compliance. Regulation 7(5) says the user or lessor may not allow a change of ownership if the certificate of compliance is older than two years. In plain English: when a property changes hands, a COC older than two years can't be used for the transfer. A fresh one is needed.

Only a registered person may issue a COC: an electrical tester for single phase, an installation electrician or a master installation electrician, registered with the Department of Employment and Labour. And if the installation has been added to or altered since the certificate was issued (a new geyser connection, an inverter, outside lights), the new work needs to be certified too.

Who pays, and when you need it

In a standard property sale, the seller pays for the COC, including the repairs needed to pass. The conveyancer handling the transfer will ask for the original certificate, and a failed inspection can hold the whole transfer up while remedial work is scoped, done and re-checked. If you're thinking of listing, get the inspection done early. Finding out about a rewiring job a week before lodgement is nobody's idea of fun.

How a COC job runs on Completo

1. 1

   Post the job. Say it's for a sale, and roughly how old the house is. Takes about 60 seconds.

2. 2

   Verified electricians quote on the inspection.

3. 3

   You accept a quote and fund SafePay. Your money sits in a SafePay trust account, and Completo never holds it.

4. 4

   The inspection happens. If remedial work is needed, you approve that scope as its own stage, with photos.

5. 5

   Certificate issued, you approve, money released. Finished. Then paid. In that order.

Why staged payment fits COC work

A COC job often turns into “inspection plus surprises”: an earth-leakage unit that no longer trips, missing bonding, a distribution board from another era. With SafePay, each stage is funded and approved separately, so you're never paying blind for work you haven't seen, and the electrician can see the money for each stage is already secured before starting. Less suspicion in both directions.

Electrical COC by Pretoria East suburb

• Faerie Glen

  Boom-era houses that have been renovated, extended and lapa'd since. The old certificate often doesn't cover half of what's on the board today.

• Moreleta Park

  A huge suburb with busy property turnover: estates, townhouses and garden flats, each with their own COC questions.

• Lynnwood

  Grand old stands with decades of wiring history, outbuildings and pool pumps. Inspections here find things.

• Waterkloof Ridge

  Family homes held for decades. When they finally sell, the installation often predates modern earth-leakage protection entirely.

We also arrange COC inspections across the rest of our launch area in Pretoria East and surrounds. Wherever the sale is, the two-year rule is the same.

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