Gas fitting across
Abbotsford

Get 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.