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Gas Fitter Chisholm

Chisholm Plumbing Co is the gas fitter for Chisholm and the nearby Maitland suburbs, connecting cooktops, ovens, heaters, barbecues and pool heaters, servicing gas water heaters and finding leaks, with licensed gas fitters on every job. Ring (02) 4915 2998 or send the form and tell us the appliance and where it will sit.

Licensed plumbers and gas fitters · NSW Lic. 359278C

Last updated September 2026

Plumber working on a gas oven connection
Freestanding gas cooker connected in a kitchen

What a Licensed Gas Fitter Does

Only a licensed gas fitter may work on a gas line. That covers:

  • Connecting and swapping gas cooktops, wall ovens and upright cookers
  • Running new gas lines and bayonet points for heaters and BBQs
  • Fitting and repairing gas water heaters, whether a tank or an instantaneous unit
  • Connecting gas pool heaters
  • Testing and certifying existing lines after renovations or appliance changes
  • Finding and repairing gas leaks, from the meter to the appliance

Every joint on that list is pressure tested before the fitter leaves.

Chisholm Gas Fitting Services

Pick the page that matches your job.

Gas Appliance Installation

Anything that burns gas in or around the house, piped in and certified, with extra runs and new bayonets costed before work begins. Our appliance connections page explains what an install involves.

Gas Leak Detection and Repair

A smell of gas, a hiss from a pipe or a gas account jumping for no reason means the system needs checking. The fitter traces the escape with a gas detector, fixes the fault and pressure-tests the run. Our gas leak repairs page puts the safety steps first.

Plumber beside a newly installed continuous-flow gas hot water unit

How Do You Spot a Gas Fault Early?

Gas faults give warning before they become dangerous. The signs worth acting on:

  • A rotten-egg smell indoors or around the meter box
  • A cooktop flame that has turned yellow or orange after burning clean and blue
  • A pilot flame that won't hold, or a heater that locks out and won't relight
  • Hissing near a line, connection or appliance
  • A gas bill jumping with no change in how you cook or heat

If you notice any of these, deal with it straight away. A gas fault is urgent at any hour, and the emergency plumber page explains after-hours visits and how they are charged.

How Is a Gas Job Priced?

"They were incredibly efficient and professional, happily answered all our questions, and gave us clear advice on what to do, with a quote supplied promptly." Sharni

On gas work the figure depends on what the inspection finds, and you should know it before any line is cut or appliance unbolted. The quote rests on:

  • The appliance, because a single bayonet is a small job next to a long new run out to a pool heater
  • How far the appliance sits from the meter, because longer runs use more pipe and labour
  • Access, since lines under floors or in roof spaces cost more labour than runs in the open
  • The hour, with night and weekend visits billed on a dearer rate that is named first

Booking a Gas Job, Step by Step

  1. 01

    Ring or send the form

    Call (02) 4915 2998 or use the form to explain the fault. We ask enough to bring the right equipment the first time.

  2. 02

    A fixed price first

    A plumber inspects the job and names a fixed figure up front. Nothing gets started until you give the go-ahead.

  3. 03

    Tested before it's lit

    The gas fitter isolates the line, does the work, then pressure-tests every joint and sweeps the area with the gas detector before any appliance is relit.

  4. 04

    Covered for a year

    Every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work. If something we did isn't right, ring the same number.

Gas Lines Through a Young Estate

The housing stock here shapes the gas work

Chisholm was gazetted in 2007 and the Waterford estate filled in around it in one building wave, so the gas lines, bayonets and heater points in most homes date from the same few years and were fitted at volume-build pace.

The first hot water units are ageing together

Some homes took gas storage or continuous-flow units at handover, and those have now passed ten years, so a repair-or-replace decision is arriving for many owners at once. Our hot water page weighs the two options.

Big households, busy appliances

With a median age of 32 and 3.2 people to a household at the last census, cooktops and heaters here feed young families. A certified check after any renovation or appliance swap confirms the line still holds pressure.

The run beyond the estate

Raymond Terrace Road forms the suburb's southern edge and leads to Thornton and East Maitland, which the same gas fitters cover. Inside the estate, Chisholm Plaza is being built as the town centre, and a new tenancy's gas work is covered on the commercial plumbing page.

When we're not the right call

a leak at the meter itself or in the street supply is for the gas network to fix, so ring their emergency number and they isolate it. If a cooktop's electronic ignition or power supply is the fault rather than the gas side, an electrician handles that part.
Gas fitter at work on a kitchen oven

Gas Fitting Questions Chisholm Households Ask

Do you install gas cooktops and BBQs around Chisholm?

Yes. Bayonet points, upright cookers, wall ovens, outdoor BBQs and pool heater runs all fall within our licence. You approve a set price before the fitter starts, and the job carries our 365-day warranty on all work.

My gas hot water unit came with the original estate build. Is it worth fixing?

That turns on the fault and the unit's age. A pilot assembly or gas valve on a younger heater is a sensible repair, but the handover-era units have now clocked a decade, and a replacement can cost less over time than fixing one part after another. You get both prices and choose.

What should I do if I can smell gas inside the house?

Get everyone outside first and leave switches, appliances and phones alone while you are still indoors. Once outside, call the gas network's emergency number and let their crew isolate the supply, then call us to find and fix the leak.

Does it cost anything for a gas fitter to come out and look at the job?

It costs nothing to get us out to your door (excluding after-hours). The gas fitter looks over the job and puts a fixed figure in writing, and nothing begins until you approve it.

Need a plumber? Call or send the form

Call (02) 4915 2998 or send the form below. Available 24/7, you see a fixed figure ahead of any work, and every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work.

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