Cooktops, heaters and gas lines installed, tested and certified. We confirm what supply the property actually has first, because that differs sharply across this peninsula.
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In a master-planned development, gas is settled once for the whole scheme at the time it is built. So the answer is consistent within a building, and it can be completely different in the one beside it.
In the older detached housing it is the ordinary situation: whether the street carries gas, and whether that particular property was ever connected. Those decisions were made individually over decades.
That means the supply question has two different shapes here, and getting it wrong wastes a visit or an appliance order.
So we confirm what is actually connected before quoting, and we pressure test what we are connecting to rather than only the appliance going on the end of it.
Leave the building, tell your neighbours on the way if it is an apartment, touch no switches, and ring from outside.
Open up, get everybody out, touch nothing electrical on the way, and ring from outside. In a scheme, tell building management as well, because the risk is not confined to your dwelling.
Turn the gas off at the meter if you can reach it safely. In an apartment that may be a shared meter room you cannot enter, in which case leave it.
A licensed gas fitter answers when you ring us, and where the network's emergency crew is the right first call we will tell you so.
A master-planned development decides gas for the whole building at construction, and individual dwellings inherit that decision along with the riser that serves them.
So whether gas reaches your apartment is a question about the scheme rather than about the street, and the building manager can answer it in a sentence.
It is worth asking before buying an appliance rather than after.
Whether the street carries gas, and whether that property was ever connected. Both vary house by house in the older half of the suburb.
A meter on the wall with a service line from the street answers the second question immediately. The first is a call to the network.
It is not a difficult thing to establish. It is simply a thing worth establishing before a conversation about appliances starts.
Adding an appliance is a capacity question, because the riser was sized for the building as built rather than for what anybody wants to add decades later.
And anything crossing common property needs the building's agreement, which is a normal process with a normal timeframe.
Raising both early is much easier than raising them once a cooktop has arrived and cannot be connected.
That applies in a house as much as in a scheme. The line has a capacity and so does the meter, and a new appliance has to fit inside both with the existing ones running.
The input rating on the appliance plate is the number the calculation runs on, and a photograph of it is enough to get started.
Where the sums do not work, appliances starve each other, and a burner that drops off whenever somebody runs a shower is nearly always this.
Anything venting through an external wall changes the outside of the building, which in strata is common property regardless of which dwelling it serves.
It also has to meet required clearances from windows, doors and vents, and in a multi-dwelling building those openings may belong to somebody else.
So a flue is simultaneously a technical constraint and an approval question, and both get resolved before installation rather than during.
Certifying a new appliance on a line losing pressure elsewhere achieves nothing, so the existing installation gets tested as part of connecting anything new.
That occasionally finds something, and when it does we tell you before doing the work rather than after.
It is why a straightforward appliance swap sometimes turns into a slightly longer conversation. We would rather have it than not.
Because the parts that matter are invisible once it is finished. Sizing, pressure testing, clearances, flueing and ventilation all get covered up on the day.
A working appliance tells you the gas got there. It tells you nothing about the diameter of the pipe, whether the line held pressure, or where the flue ends up.
The certificate exists to record exactly those things, which is why it is worth keeping and worth chasing if you never got one.
Gas is licensed work in NSW with no small-job exemption. In a freestanding house that is a risk taken on your own behalf. In a scheme it is taken on behalf of the building.
Which is a reason a building is entitled to ask about it, and a reason to be able to answer.
Anybody offering to connect an appliance without issuing a certificate has told you something useful about how they work.
Legally required, issued by the licensed gasfitter, and the only durable proof that work behind a wall was done by somebody entitled to do it.
Keep it with the property papers. It is what an insurer asks for after an incident and what a conveyancer asks for at sale, and it cannot be recreated later.
In a scheme, building management may ask for a copy too, and providing one is straightforward if you have it.
Fixed price agreed before anything starts. These are indicative 2026 ranges and the Certificate of Compliance is included in every one of them.
The installation pressure tested, with a written result.
Connected, tested and certified, with the certificate handed over.
Depending on the run and what it has to pass through.
Installed and certified, sized for the appliance rather than for convenience.
Legally required, and included on every gas job without being asked.
Whether gas reaches you, and in a building what the scheme was built with. That comes before any quote.
A pressure test on what we are connecting to, so nothing is certified over an existing fault.
Installed and commissioned properly, sized for the appliance rather than for whatever was easiest.
Issued on the spot, and worth filing with the property papers.
Leave the building first, tell the neighbours if it is an apartment, and ring us from outside.
Call 1300 381 569Get everyone outside first. Do not touch any switch and do not use a phone indoors. In an apartment building, tell your neighbours on the way out rather than assuming somebody else has. If the meter is safely on your route, turn it off. Then ring from outside.
Not always, and it depends what the scheme was built with. A master-planned development settles that question once for the whole building at the time of construction, so the answer is consistent within a building and can be completely different in the one next to it. Worth confirming before you buy an appliance.
There it is the ordinary situation: whether the street carries gas and whether the property was ever connected. Those houses each made their own decisions over decades, so it varies property by property rather than building by building.
It depends on the supply, on capacity, and on the owners corporation where anything crosses common property or would be visible externally. None of those are unusual obstacles, they just need answering before anything is ordered rather than after.
The document a licensed gasfitter issues certifying the work was done to standard. It is legally required and it is the only durable record the job was done properly. Keep it with the property papers, because insurers ask for it and so does a conveyancer at sale. We issue one on every gas job without being asked.
No. Gas is licensed work in NSW with no exemption for a small job or a capable owner. Unlicensed work cannot be certified and voids a home insurance claim, and in a building with other households it is not only your risk.
A leak test on the installation is $150 to $300. A cooktop connected and certified is $250 to $500. A new gas point run and certified is $450 to $1,200 depending on the run. A heater bayonet is $300 to $600. The certificate is included in all of it.
Tell us whether it is an apartment or a house and whether gas is connected already. Those two answers decide whether this is straightforward or a supply question first.
Supply confirmed first, whole installation tested, and the certificate issued as standard.
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