Cooktops, heaters and gas lines installed, tested and certified. In a city apartment the first question is whether gas reaches you at all.
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In a house, gas is a supply to a building and the question is usually just whether the street carries it.
In the city that is not the shape of it. A good many buildings here have no gas whatsoever, and among those that do, it may serve only certain stacks rather than every apartment.
Where it does reach you, two further questions follow. Whether the riser has capacity for another appliance, since it was specified for what the building had when it went up. And whether new pipework would cross common property, which the building has a legitimate say in.
None of that is unusual or obstructive. It simply has to be answered before an appliance is bought rather than after it is delivered, and one conversation settles it.
In a building it is not only your problem. Get out, tell management on the way, and ring from outside.
Open what you can on the way, touch nothing electrical, and leave. In a building the next call after emergency services is building management, because the risk is not confined to your apartment.
Do not use the lift and do not knock on doors on the way past if that means delay. Get outside and call from there.
A licensed gas fitter answers when you ring us, and in a building emergency we will tell you to get the network's emergency line and management involved first.
And among those that do, it may serve only certain stacks rather than every apartment. Gas in a city building is not a given and it is not uniform.
So the first question about any gas work here is whether gas actually reaches your apartment, and that is answered by the building rather than by the street.
It is worth establishing before buying an appliance, not after.
Adding an appliance decades later is a capacity question rather than a preference. The riser carries a fixed load and it was calculated for the appliances originally installed.
Which means an apartment cannot simply be treated as a house with a smaller floor plan. What you add draws on something shared.
That calculation is the building's business as much as yours, which is why the next block matters.
Which the building has a legitimate say in, and raising it early is far easier than raising it late. Anything running outside your own apartment boundary is not yours to route.
Strata approval for that kind of work is a normal process rather than an obstacle, and it has a timeframe.
Starting the conversation before you order an appliance saves the situation where the cooktop arrives and cannot be connected.
Anything that vents through an external wall changes the outside of the building, which in a strata scheme is common property.
It also has to meet required clearances from windows, doors and vents, and in a tower those windows may belong to somebody else.
So a flue position is simultaneously a technical constraint and an approval question, and both have to be resolved before installation rather than during.
It is legally required, and in a shared building it is the record that work inside your apartment was done by somebody entitled to do it.
That matters to your insurer, to the building's insurer, and to whoever buys the apartment from you.
Building management may also ask for a copy, and providing one is straightforward if you have it and impossible if you do not.
Gas is licensed work in NSW with no small-job exemption. In a house that is a risk you take on yourself. In a building it is a risk taken on behalf of everybody in the stack.
Which is a reason buildings are entitled to ask, and a reason to be able to answer.
Anybody offering to connect an appliance in an apartment without issuing a certificate has told you something useful about how they work.
Pipe sized for the load, a pressure test that held, clearances taken from the manufacturer's instructions, a flue terminating where it should, and ventilation appropriate to the room.
In an apartment kitchen those rooms are small and frequently well sealed, which makes the ventilation item more significant than it would be in a house.
All of it is covered up on the day, which is why the certificate is the only durable account of it.
An appliance burning indoors consumes air from the room it is in. Apartment kitchens are small, well sealed, and frequently fitted with a powerful extraction hood.
A strong rangehood removing air from a tight room can work against an appliance rather than help it, and the two together matter more than either alone.
It is worth a look if the kitchen has been renovated since the building went up, which in most cases it has.
Building management, about whether gas reaches your apartment and what the process is for work touching common property. Then a licensed fitter, about capacity and flue position.
Both conversations are short and both are much cheaper before an appliance is purchased than after.
We are happy to have the second one over the phone from a photograph of the appliance plate.
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.
Legally required, and included on every gas job without being asked.
Whether the building has gas, and whether it reaches your apartment. That comes before any quote.
Whether the riser can take another appliance, and whether the building needs to agree to the pipework.
Installed and commissioned properly, sized for the appliance rather than for whatever was easiest to run.
Issued on the spot, and worth keeping with your records.
Leave the apartment, tell building management on your way out, and ring us from outside.
Call 1300 381 569Leave, and tell building management on your way out. Do not touch any switch and do not use a phone indoors. In a building this is not only your problem, and management can act on the whole building in a way you cannot. Ring us from outside.
Not always, and in the city plenty of buildings have none at all. Where a building does have gas it may serve only some stacks. It is the first thing to establish and it takes one visit or one conversation with management.
It depends on three things: whether there is a supply to the apartment, whether the riser has capacity for another appliance, and whether new pipework would cross common property, which needs the building's agreement. None are unusual obstacles, they just have to be answered before anything is bought.
The document a licensed gasfitter issues certifying the work was done to standard. It is legally required. In a building it is also the record that work inside your apartment was done properly, which matters to everybody else living there. We issue one on every gas job.
No. Gas is licensed work in NSW with no exemption for a small job. Unlicensed work cannot be certified and voids a home insurance claim, and in a building full of other households it puts people at risk who never agreed to it.
The installation we are connecting to, yes. Certifying a new appliance on a line losing pressure elsewhere achieves nothing, and in a shared building that is not a theoretical concern.
A leak test on the installation is $150 to $300. A cooktop connected and certified is $250 to $500. A new gas point within an apartment 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 the building and whether gas reaches your apartment. If you do not know, say so and that is the first thing we will establish.
Supply confirmed first, installation tested, and the certificate issued as standard.
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