Fifteen years in the trade, first in Italy then on the Côte d’Azur. From bringing a consumer unit up to standard to rewiring a whole property, the same craftsman surveys, quotes and installs.
An electrical installation is judged on what you cannot see: the cable sizes, how well the terminals are tightened, how clearly the consumer unit is labelled. GR Solution works for private clients as well as estate agencies, architects and building firms, in Nice and the surrounding towns.
Replacing an old installation, in an occupied home or an empty flat: removal, pulling in the new circuits, fitting the accessories and recommissioning. Every circuit is labelled and recorded, so the next person to work on it can find their way.
Replacing the consumer unit, adding RCDs, separating circuits, earthing. It is the item most often requested before a sale or a letting, and the one that genuinely protects people.
Planning the light points, creating separate circuits, dimmers and controls. Well-arranged lighting transforms a room far more reliably than an expensive fitting.
Blinds, heating, lighting and sockets controlled from a phone. Installed on one simple principle: everything must still work by hand the day the hub fails.
Survey of the consumer unit and the available supply, a dedicated circuit, the charge point and its protection. In a block of flats, the cable route and the managing agent’s consent are arranged in advance.
A breaker that keeps tripping, a dead socket, an RCD that goes at night: the fault is traced with a tester before anything is opened up. The quotation comes once the cause is known, never before.
Alarm panel, door and motion detectors, siren: the system is installed and set up for your home, then commissioned with you. You come away knowing how to arm it, disarm it and what happens when it goes off.
Indoor and outdoor cameras, recording, and remote viewing if you want it. They are aimed at your own property, never at the street or the neighbours: that is the rule set out by the French data protection authority (CNIL), and it is what keeps disputes away.
Call the craftsman who will do the work. No switchboard, no call back in three days. The visit to prepare a quotation is free.
You describe what you need by phone, by email or through the form. A quick reply.
The state of the installation, the constraints of the building, the options available. Nothing is priced without having been seen.
Items, materials, labour and timescale, in writing and explained if you wish.
The job run to the agreed dates, the place left clean, and still reachable after handover.
The business is based in Nice and along the Côte d’Azur. Gabriele also works in Genoa, which helps owners and professionals managing property on both sides of the border.
Nice and the surrounding towns, as far as Monaco, Antibes and Cannes: flats, villas, year-round and holiday lets, business premises.
+33 7 44 82 82 83Flats in the historic centre, older buildings, seafront developments. The constraints of the building stock are familiar, and dealings can be in Italian.
+39 349 604 3319French law does not require you to carry out the work. It requires an electrical inspection report in the sale file once the installation is more than fifteen years old. That report flags the faults, it does not fix them. In practice a heavy report either scares the buyer off or gets used to negotiate the price, so many sellers prefer to deal with the worst points before the viewings. We look together at what is worth putting right and what can stay as it is.
It sets the minimum for a domestic installation in France: earthing, residual current protection, number of circuits, sockets per room, protection around water points. It applies to new builds and to full renovations. On an existing installation that you only modify in part, it is the part you touch that has to comply. That is why adding a circuit to a board with no earth makes no sense: the supply has to be dealt with before anything is added.
One day in a home where the circuits already exist and can be identified. Two to three days if circuits have to be created, an earth run in, or the link back to the meter reworked. The power is off for most of the work, and the installation is put back into service before the site is left.
Yes. In a French co-ownership, an occupant can have a charge point fitted at their own expense on their parking space without the general meeting having to vote on it. This is the right to a socket. You notify the managing agent by registered letter with a description of the work. The agent can only object before a judge, and only on serious grounds. The real question is technical: where the supply comes from and how the consumption is metered.
Making the installation safe is the owner’s responsibility: a rented home has to be fit to live in, which means no electrical risk. The tenant covers minor upkeep, such as replacing a bulb or a switch. An ageing consumer unit, a missing earth or a missing residual current device are the owner’s responsibility, even when it is the tenant who notices.
Describe in a few lines what you need and where the property is. Gabriele will call you back to arrange a visit.