Gas Leak Detection Rathmines
Gas leak detection in Rathmines needs a licensed gas fitter, and any smell of gas comes first: clear the house, then ring the gas network's emergency line. With everyone outside, we find the escape with a gas detector and a pressure test, price the repair as a fixed figure and certify the pipework after a clean retest.
Where this page sits. It runs under the gas fitting hub, which covers the full range of gas work, and the same plumber in Rathmines who finds the escape also fixes it.
Licensed plumbers and gas fitters · NSW Lic. 359278C
Last updated September 2026
What Are the Signs of a Gas Leak?
Natural gas has no odour until the supplier adds one, which is why a whiff matters. Any of these means stop and act:
- The rotten-egg odour added to gas, strongest by the meter or behind a cooker
- A faint hiss from a pipe or fitting on a still evening
- A lazy yellow flame on a burner that should burn blue
- Grass browning in a line over where a gas pipe runs underground
- A dull headache or light-headed feeling indoors that clears once you step out
Any one of those alone earns a check. Two together, get outside and ring for help.
How We Track a Leak Down
Each step narrows the search until one joint or length of pipe is left:
- 1
Make the site safe
The gas is isolated at the meter before anything else happens.
- 2
Pressure test the line
The run is charged and a gauge is left to settle; a falling reading proves gas is getting out.
- 3
Sweep with the gas detector
The detector is passed along every fitting, in the subfloor and outside, until it registers gas.
- 4
Price the fix
The repair is priced as one fixed sum, and the spanners stay in the bag until you agree.
- 5
Test again and certify
The repaired line gets a second pressure test, and the paperwork includes a compliance certificate.
How Is a Leak Traced and Priced?
Gas repairs are priced on the escape itself:
- Reach: a joint under a low cottage floor or behind a wall lining takes longer than one on an exposed outside run
- Size of the fix: a remade fitting versus a new length of gas pipe
- Old copper and galvanised pipe of different ages need different joiners to mate safely
- Timing: a night or weekend gas call runs at its own rate, agreed on the phone
We provide up-front, honest quotes that will always match the final price, should you decide to go ahead.
Cottages First, Gas Lines Later
Six decades of houses, six decades of pipe
Salt air shortens what sits outside
"We had an urgent gas problem that required immediate attention at our home…on a Friday afternoon. … Identified the issue, fixed and tested" Lee
When We're Not the Right Call
If the escape is at the meter or out under the road, the gas network repairs it through their emergency number.
When the culprit is a worn-out cooktop or heater rather than pipe, a replacement is handled through gas appliance installation. Water dripping from a hidden pipe is a separate job again: water leak detection.
Gas Leak Questions From Rathmines
What should I do first if I can smell gas inside my home?
Walk everyone out and leave every switch, plug and phone charger alone as you go. Out on the street, phone the gas network on its emergency number, then us on (02) 4093 0558. We are Available 24/7 and send a licensed gas fitter to trace and fix the pipework on your side.
Do you find leaks on the meter side as well as the house side?
We handle everything downstream of the meter, meaning the pipe and the appliances it feeds inside your fence. The meter and the street main are the gas network's, reached on their emergency line.
Can you pressure test a gas line in an old cottage?
Yes. Postwar weatherboard and fibro cottages can carry gas pipe of several ages joined together. Testing the full run under pressure proves whether it is tight, and the detector finds a weeping joint before any wall lining comes off.
Is a gas smell an after-hours job?
Yes. A gas smell does not wait for morning, and we are Available 24/7 for it. A night visit runs at a higher rate than a daytime one, and that rate is inside the fixed figure you approve.
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