Hoses & connectors: $100–$200
The brittle old flexible behind the cooktop: tiny part, outsized share of the leaks we find.
Licensed Gasfitters
Gas Fitting
Done Right In
Burwood Heights
Gas does not grade on a curve. A connection is either tested and certified or it is a liability with a warranty problem, so every gas job we do across Burwood Heights, from a cooktop swap to a full outdoor kitchen line, ends the same way: needle steady on the manometer, appliances burning blue, paperwork done.
- Licence 368473C, fully insured
- Certified to AS/NZS 5601, every single job
- Smell gas? Leave, then 131 909: before us
Why The Law Keeps Gas Licensed In Burwood Heights
NSW reserves every gas task, down to connecting an oven, for licensed gasfitters, and the logic is unsentimental: plumbing mistakes stain ceilings, gas mistakes burn houses and poison air. The leaks we attend have a recurring origin story, and it is rarely the pipework’s idea, it is a confident DIY connection or a handyman’s thread tape, discovered later by someone’s nose.
What the licence actually buys is the ending: the whole installation held against a manometer until the needle refuses to move, every appliance checked for a clean blue burn and honest ventilation, and the work done to AS/NZS 5601, the clause your insurer reaches for when something ever goes wrong. Across Burwood Heights and the Inner West, no gas job of ours skips that ending.
Old steel lines and what is inside them
Gas runs in older homes are frequently black steel, and steel corrodes internally over decades. The bore narrows with scale, which starves appliances at the far end of the run, and the wall thins at the low points where moisture collects.
Burwood Heights’ interwar and Federation homes still run original earthenware pipework that cracks and collapses as it ages.
An appliance that has become unreliable at the end of a long old run is often reporting on the pipe rather than on itself. That is worth establishing before it gets replaced.
Decommissioned lines nobody capped properly
Sizing is the quiet failure. Adding an appliance to a line that was adequate for the original load can starve everything else on it, so we check what the existing run can actually carry before extending it.
Older properties routinely have redundant gas pipework, a disconnected heater, a removed stove, a fireplace converted decades ago: and it is not always capped to any standard, or capped at all.
Those are found by pressure testing the whole installation rather than the part in use. It is the single most common reason an old house fails a test, and it is usually inexpensive to put right once located.
Gas that arrived long after the house did
A period home was not built with gas in mind. Whatever it has was added later, often several times, and the runs take whatever route was available at the time, under floors, through cavities, along the outside of a wall and back in.
Which is why the first job on an older property is usually establishing what is actually there. A pressure test tells you whether the installation is sound; it does not tell you where it goes, and both matter before anything is added.
Renting, and gas
A gas leak is an urgent repair under NSW residential tenancy law, and landlords are obliged to arrange it promptly. If you smell gas, ring 131 909 first and the agent second, the network operator does not wait for anyone's authorisation.
Landlords are also responsible for ensuring appliances are safe. If a heater in a rental has never been serviced and burns yellow, that is a request worth putting in writing rather than living with.
Renovating is the cheap moment
Gas lines, bayonet points and appliance connections cost a fraction of their normal price while walls and floors are already open. Retrofitting the same work later means opening finished surfaces and making them good again.
If a renovation is planned, it is worth deciding then about a future cooktop, an outdoor point or a heater, even if the appliance itself comes years later. Capping a prepared point costs almost nothing.
Selling, buying or leasing a property
Gas installations surface at transaction time. Buyers' inspections flag uncapped lines and old unflued heaters, insurers ask about compliance, and commercial leases usually require current certification.
A test before listing is cheap and removes a negotiating point. If you are buying an older property, having the gas installation tested before settlement is one of the better-value inspections available.
What it costs in Burwood Heights
Joints & fittings, $200–$600
Thread and valve leaks sealed properly and proven again on the gauge.
Pipe runs, $400–$1,500
Corroded or damaged sections replaced; concealed lines with access work run $800–$2,500.
Appliance connections, from ~$200
Connected, tested, certified. New line or bayonet to reach it quoted fixed on top.
The market rate, $120–$220/hr
Sydney's 2026 licensed-gasfitter range; attendance typically $80–$150. Certification is included, because without it there is no job.
No gas job of ours ends without holding pressure on a gauge, that is the receipt that matters. Figures here are indicative of the 2026 Sydney market rather than a quote from us, you get your own number as a fixed price before any work starts.
How A Gas Job Runs
Step 01
Step 01
Make It Safe
A suspected leak starts with isolation at the meter and ventilation, before diagnosis, before anything. No reading is worth taking on an installation still feeding a leak.
Step 02
Find It, Prove It
A manometer pressure test tells us the installation is losing gas; gas detection equipment and controlled testing narrow it to the joint, fitting or run responsible.
Step 03
Repair To Standard
The failed component or section is replaced, not doped up and hoped over, to AS/NZS 5601, whether that is one connector or a rerun line.
Step 04
Test, Relight, Certify
The whole installation holds pressure or the job is not finished. Appliances are relit and checked for correct burning, and you get the compliance side documented.
That Cooktop Won’t Connect Itself
Cooktop, heater or barbecue point: connected, tested and certified in one visit. The right way costs less than the redo.
No. Gasfitting is licensed work in NSW with no handyman tier, and that is not bureaucratic caution, unburnt gas and incorrectly burnt gas are both lethal, and the second is odourless. Unlicensed gas work also voids home insurance, invalidates appliance warranties, and surfaces during a sale.
The installation is isolated, brought to a set pressure and watched on a manometer for a defined period. If the needle holds, the system is tight; if it drops, gas is escaping and the test indicates roughly how much. It is the only way to know the condition of pipework you cannot see.
Indicatively: a pressure test and leak location $220-$450; a new bayonet or appliance point $350-$800 depending on the run; an appliance service $180-$320; a cooktop changeover $250-$500 where the point already exists. Market figures for 2026, not a quote, and every job includes the compliance certificate rather than adding it.
Not necessarily. Redundant pipework from a disconnected heater, a removed stove or a converted fireplace is not always capped to any standard, or capped at all. It is the single most common reason an old house fails a pressure test, and usually inexpensive to put right once located.
It can be, and testing is the only way to know. A period home was not built with gas in mind, whatever it has was added later, often several times, taking whatever route was available. The first job is usually establishing what is actually there before anything is added to it.
Older runs are frequently black steel, which corrodes internally. The bore narrows with scale and starves appliances furthest from the meter. An unreliable appliance on a long old run is often reporting on the pipe rather than itself, worth establishing before it gets replaced.
Get The Gas Done Properly In Burwood Heights
Licensed, pressure-tested, documented: every time. Smelling gas this minute? 131 909 from outside comes first.
