Gasfitters Perth: Gas Work Is Its Own Licence, and a Leak Is Its Own Call

Smell gas at home? Leave the building, then ring the gas network operator’s emergency line before you ring any plumber. In Perth that operator is ATCO, and the meter and regulator on your property belong to it. Once the network has made the site safe, licensed gasfitters take the job from there, and MCN Plumbing Perth answers those calls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. New gas installation runs a line into a property that has never carried one. Gas fitting covers the pipework already in the ground, gas fixtures installation connects the appliance at the end of it, and gas leak repairs put right what the network has isolated. All of it is licensed gas work, and that licence is a separate ticket from the plumbing one.

If You Can Smell Gas Right Now

A gas smell is the one job that does not start with a plumber. Get everyone out of the building, leave the door open behind you, and use a phone outside. Don’t switch anything on or off on the way past, lights included, and don’t go looking for the source. From outside, ring ATCO’s gas faults and emergencies line. The network operator can isolate the supply, and until that has happened there is nothing a gasfitter can safely do at the property.

Where the network’s half ends is worth knowing before you need it. ATCO owns the meter and the regulator. Everything downstream of it, the pipework through your walls and under your floor and every appliance on the end of it, belongs to the property owner. That is the half a licensed gasfitter works on, and where a repair, a pressure test and a new connection all happen.

Carbon monoxide is the hazard with no smell at all. It comes off an appliance that is burning or venting badly, and nothing warns you the way escaping gas does. Carbon monoxide testing exists for that gap, and our gasfitters carry it out on gas appliances and their flues. If nobody has looked at your gas heater in years, book the test before the season you use it in.

Plumbing and Gasfitting Are Two Licences, Not One

Not every plumber can legally work on gas, and in Western Australia the licence draws that line. Gas work has to be carried out by a licensed gasfitter. Building and Energy, the state regulator issuing those licences, also requires your gasfitter to lodge a Notice of Completion for the job and fix a compliance badge to your meter box. That badge is the visible record that a licensed gasfitter did the work, and it is what to look for once anyone has finished at your gas.

Plenty of tradespeople hold both tickets, which is why the two trades read as one job from the customer’s side. So the useful question is not whether a company employs a gasfitter. It’s whether the person standing in your kitchen holds the gas licence for your job, and any licensed gasfitter answers that without hesitating.

Who Turns Up When You Book MCN Plumbing Perth

MCN Plumbing Perth has been on Perth jobs since 2015, and its founder, Milad Nasr, still runs the business. Qualified, licensed and fully insured plumbers do every job here, and anything involving gas goes to someone licensed for gas work specifically. The cover behind them currently runs to $20 million public liability and $50 million indemnity. If you want to see that licence, or the insurance behind it, before anyone opens a meter box, say so when you book or ask at your door. We’d rather you asked than wondered.

We work clean and non-invasively, so a gas job leaves the kitchen, the laundry or the meter box the way we found it, minus the fault. Then there is what stands behind the work after we have driven off. MCN Plumbing offers 100% guaranteed results across all of our work, which is a promise the business keeps, never a claim about jobs already done. There is a range of guarantees you can ask us about, and asking is the point of them. Across the group there is a 4.6 star Google rating from 395 reviews across MCN Plumbing, sitting with the two branches together and not with the newer Perth arm alone.

Same Day, or in the Middle of the Night

Gas faults keep no business hours, so MCN answers emergency calls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, gas included. Once the network has cleared us to attend, the aim is a gasfitter at your door within 90 minutes. A heater that won’t light on a cold night, an appliance stranded mid-install, a supply the network has shut off at the meter: those are the calls that arrive after five.

The booked half of the diary runs to a different promise. Any job booked before 10:30am on any day carries MCN’s guaranteed same-day service, non-urgent work included, from the cooktop connection you have been putting off to the gas point a renovation needs before the cabinetmaker arrives. That 10:30am mark is the string attached to it. Book before it and same-day applies; ring later and we schedule you the ordinary way.

Checks Worth Making Before You Book Gas Work

Gas is the trade where the qualification is the product, so four questions are worth putting to whoever you call, MCN included.

• Ask who is attending, and which licence they hold for this job. A company holding a licence and the person at your meter box holding one are different facts.
• Ask what the gasfitter tests when the work is finished, and how. A connection that works and a line that has passed a test are two different claims.
• Agree what you keep. The Notice of Completion and the compliance badge on the meter box are yours, and they are what the next tradesperson, tenant or buyer looks for.
• Ask where a guarantee stops. Whether it still holds at 9pm, on a Sunday or on a public holiday is worth hearing before you book, not when you need it.

From a New Gas Line to the Appliance at the End of It

Adding gas to a property that has never had it starts with new gas installation: the line from the meter to where the appliance will stand, sized for what you intend to run on it and tested before anything connects. Where the pipework is already there, gas fitting covers the alterations a renovation asks for, a relocated kitchen, a laundry losing its gas point, an alfresco gaining one.

Gas fixtures installation is the connection at the far end. A cooktop, an oven, a heater or a gas water heater, connected, tested and left working. Disconnections are gas work as well, so a bench replacement or an appliance delivery can need a gasfitter before the other trade starts.

Gas leak repairs are the one line here with an order attached. The network operator’s emergency line comes first. The repair follows once the site is safe, and a licensed gasfitter traces the fault, on a buried line, at a joint, or behind a wall where nothing shows, then tests the installation before gas goes back on.

We do this work at homes and business premises across the metropolitan area. That runs north east through Morley, Dianella and Inglewood, along the river at Maylands and Bayswater, south of it at Como, Riverton and Thornlie, and out to the business premises in Malaga.

Diagnosis First, Then the Quote

A gasfitter turns up carrying the parts and equipment your job needs, and diagnoses it at the property. The gasfitter puts the line under pressure to see whether it holds, and where gas is getting out somewhere you cannot see, non-destructive leak detection locates it before anyone opens up a wall or a driveway.

Then you hear what we found and what your options are, including the option of doing less than you rang about. Nothing begins until you approve the scope. We settle the price at that point. What we quote you before the work starts is what you pay when the gas goes back on, with no hidden costs.

Gas Work in Perth, Question by Question

Are plumbers and gasfitters the same trade?

Plumbing and gasfitting are licensed separately in Western Australia, so a plumbing licence on its own does not authorise gas work. Many tradespeople hold both licences and work across both, which is what blurs the line for customers. Ask which licence covers your job and the answer takes one sentence.

Who should I call if I have a gas leak in Perth?

A suspected gas leak goes to the gas network operator ahead of any plumber. Ring ATCO’s faults and emergencies line from outside the building and let the network isolate the supply. A licensed gasfitter picks the job up from there, finds the fault on your side of the meter and repairs it, and MCN takes those calls at any hour.

Who connects a new cooktop or oven?

A licensed gasfitter connects a new cooktop or oven. The appliance retailer’s delivery driver and the kitchen installer cannot, however neatly the appliance slides into the bench. Your gasfitter tests the connection at the appliance and leaves the compliance paperwork behind, and if the old unit goes out on the day, that disconnection is gas work too.

Is a gas hot water system a gas job or a plumbing job?

A gas hot water system splits down the middle of the one appliance: the water side is plumbing, while the gas connection and the flue are gas work. MCN sends someone licensed for both, so a repair or a replacement takes one visit and one licence holder.

Book a Licensed Gasfitter

Ring 0418 871 934 to book a gasfitter, and say which appliance or which line the job involves so the right parts travel out with them. If you would rather put it in writing, email info@mcnplumbingperth.com.au or send the enquiry form on this site. If gas is escaping right now, that call goes to ATCO first and to us second. The order never changes.