Cooktops, heaters and gas lines installed, tested and certified, with the paperwork handed over rather than promised. On a property with a muddled history that record is worth having.
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Gas work disappears the moment it is finished. The appliance sits there looking the same whoever fitted it, and there is nothing about a working cooktop that tells you whether the connection behind it was done to standard.
The Certificate of Compliance is what closes that gap. A licensed gasfitter issues it certifying the work meets the standard, it is legally required, and it is the only durable proof the job was done properly rather than merely finished.
It matters more than people think on a property with a long or muddled history. Owners change, memories are unreliable, and this is a suburb where even the administrative details have moved around: thousands of properties here changed council in the 2016 mergers. What survives all of that is paper.
Insurers ask for it. Conveyancers ask for it at sale. And the next owner will ask you what was done, which is a much easier conversation with a file than with a recollection.
Out of the house, hands off every switch, meter off only if it is genuinely on your way past, and call us once you are outdoors.
Ventilate, then get people out, then call from outdoors. That order matters more than anything else on this page.
Nothing electrical while you are still inside. No light switches, no extraction fan, no unplugging anything, and no phone call from the room that smells.
A licensed gas fitter picks up when you ring us. Where the right answer is the network's emergency line instead, we will say so rather than take a booking.
Issued by the licensed gasfitter who did the work, certifying it meets the standard. It is not optional and it is not paperwork the tradesperson does as a favour.
It records who did the work, what was done, and that the installation was compliant on the day it was signed.
If you have had gas work done and never received one, that is worth chasing rather than shrugging at.
A working appliance tells you nothing about the connection behind it. Gas that lights and burns says the appliance works, not that the pipework, the sizing or the flueing were done properly.
None of that is visible once a job is finished, which is exactly the point. The certificate is the record of the parts nobody can inspect.
Memory is not a substitute. Four years on, the tradesperson has moved and the invoice is a line in an old email.
The administrative history here is genuinely muddled. Boundaries have moved, the council that administers a street has changed within living memory, and records have followed those changes imperfectly.
Which means the paperwork you hold yourself is worth more than the paperwork you assume somebody else holds.
It is a small argument for keeping your own copy properly, and it applies to drainage and building records as much as to gas.
One at claim time, the other at sale, and neither accepts a recollection. Both are asking the same question in different words: was this done by somebody licensed to do it.
An insurer asking after a gas incident is the version that matters most, and it is the worst possible moment to discover you cannot answer.
Keep it with the property papers rather than in a folder of receipts. It is a document about the building, not a transaction.
Certifying a new appliance on a line that is losing elsewhere achieves nothing, so the existing installation gets tested as part of connecting anything new to it.
That occasionally finds something, and when it does we will tell you before doing the work rather than after.
It is also why a straightforward appliance swap sometimes turns into a slightly longer conversation. We would rather have it than not.
There is no small-job exemption in NSW, and uncertified work sits outside the system entirely. Nobody can issue a certificate retrospectively for work they did not do.
What we can do is inspect and test what exists and certify the current state of the installation, which is a different document but a genuinely useful one.
Where the work turns out to be non-compliant, we will say so plainly and tell you what it would take to put right.
Adding an appliance is a calculation against total demand rather than a connection. 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 it does not fit, appliances starve each other, and a burner that drops off whenever somebody runs a shower is nearly always this.
A continuous flow hot water unit is a large draw, and adding one to an installation sized for a cooktop changes what the rest of the system sees.
This is the point at which the existing work gets looked at, which is frequently more valuable than the new appliance. Older work here was done to the standard of its day.
That standard was not wrong. It is simply not the current one, and it is worth knowing before something is added on top of it.
Pipe sized for the run and the load, tested to pressure, appliances installed to the manufacturer's instructions with the required clearances, flueing that discharges where it should, and ventilation suited to the appliance and the space.
Every one of those is a specification rather than a judgement, which is why compliance is something that can be certified at all.
It is also the argument against unlicensed work. It looks identical on the day and the fault it leaves does not announce itself.
Fixed price agreed before anything starts. These are indicative 2026 ranges and the Certificate of Compliance is included in every one of them.
We put the existing installation under pressure and give you the reading.
Hooked up, proved, certified, and the certificate goes with you.
Priced on how far it has to travel and what stands between.
Fitted and certified, sized for what it will actually feed.
Legally required, and issued on every gas job without being asked for.
Certificates for previous work tell us a great deal about what we are connecting to.
A pressure test on what we are connecting to, so nothing gets certified over an existing fault.
Installed and commissioned properly, sized for the appliance rather than for whatever was easiest to run.
Issued on the spot, and worth filing with the property documents.
Get out of the house, leave the switches alone, and ring us from the footpath.
Call 1300 381 569Everybody out first. Do not touch a light switch or any other switch, and do not use a phone indoors. If the meter is safely on your way out, turn it off. Ring from outside. This is the one situation where leaving and doing nothing clever is exactly right.
It is the document a licensed gasfitter issues certifying the work was done to standard, and it is legally required. Practically it is the only lasting proof the job was done properly: insurers ask for it and so does a conveyancer at sale. We issue one on every gas job whether or not anybody asks.
You cannot retrospectively certify somebody else's work, and we would not pretend otherwise. What we can do is test the installation, tell you its condition, and certify anything we do. From that point the record exists, which is better than the position you are in now.
No. Gas is licensed work in NSW and there is no exemption for a small job or a capable owner. Unlicensed work cannot be certified and voids a home insurance claim, which makes it a poor way to save an afternoon.
The part we are connecting to, yes. Certifying a new appliance on a line that is losing somewhere else achieves nothing. If something else is wrong you hear about it before we leave, with a price attached rather than a vague warning.
Usually. The questions are whether gas reaches the property, what the run has to pass through, and whether the appliance you have chosen suits the supply. All answerable before anything is ordered, which is the cheap time to ask.
A leak test on the installation is $150 to $300. A cooktop connected and certified is $250 to $500. A new gas point 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 what you want fitted and whether you have certificates for any previous gas work. That second answer says more about the installation than the appliance does.
Installation tested, certificate issued as standard, licence number on the quote.
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