Licensed gas fitting
across Prospect

Stop reading and act. Do not touch a light switch, a power point or anything that could spark, and do not use a phone inside the building. Open doors and windows on the way out, turn the gas off at the meter if you can safely reach it, get everyone outside, and ring from outdoors. We answer 24 hours and treat it as the highest priority job we take.

Because most of a new run is a trench, and this is not easy ground to trench. Prospect sits over Sydney's largest body of igneous rock, and the material is quarried for road base precisely because it is hard. Add heavy clay above it, which is difficult in its own way when wet and close to concrete when dry, and the digging becomes the substantial part of the job rather than an afterthought.

With the route walked and the ground discussed, not on metres alone. The same warning applies here as to drainage excavation: a price given on length is an estimate until somebody has thought about depth and what is under the line. A good quote states what it assumes and what changes if rock is met shallower. Ask for that before agreeing, because afterwards you have a half-finished trench and no leverage.

Frequently, and it is worth asking. Going around a driveway rather than under it, following an existing service trench, or taking a slightly longer path through softer ground can all cost less than the short direct route. On flat sedimentary ground the shortest line is usually cheapest. Here it often is not, and a fitter who has walked the route will know which applies.

It can, and it is worth understanding. Heavy clay shrinks and swells with moisture, so a buried service laid in it experiences movement that a line in stable ground does not. That is not a reason for alarm, and modern materials handle it, but it is a reason to take any smell near the line seriously rather than assuming it will be nothing.

Very often, yes, and that is the cheap version of this trade. Connecting an appliance to a point that already exists is straightforward work with no ground involved at all. The costs here are entirely about new runs. So the first question worth asking is whether the point you need already exists somewhere near where you want it.

A leak test and make-safe is $200 to $450. Connecting an appliance to an existing point is $250 to $550, with no excavation involved. A new gas point or run is $450 to $1,200, and on this ground where it lands in that range depends on the route far more than the distance. The compliance certificate is included on every gas job.