Hobart’s specialist gas heater service & compliance team.
Annual AS 4575 servicing on Type-A space heaters, console units and log-fire effect heaters. Carbon monoxide leak checks and spillage testing. Flue and chimney inspection to AS/NZS 5601 clearances. New installs with Certificate of Compliance lodged. Heater replacement and reverse-cycle conversions. Across Hobart, Glenorchy, Clarence and Kingborough — licensed under the Tasmanian Gas Safety Act 2019.
Five gas heater services.
From a $240 annual service through to a $5,500 like-for-like replacement or a full gas-to-electric conversion. We hold the Tasmanian Type-A gas work authorisation, the public liability cover required by AS 5601, and the manufacturer training to service the major Hobart brands — Rinnai, Braemar, Vulcan, Pyrox and Real Flame.
Annual gas heater service
AS 4575 service of Type-A heaters. Burner clean, injector check, gas pressure test, pilot inspection, ambient CO test, flue spillage test, condition report. ~$200–$450 depending on unit type and access.
See annual servicing →Carbon monoxide leak check
AS 4575 negative-pressure spillage protocol. Ambient CO logging while heater fires. Flue draft test. Compulsory after any reported headache / nausea symptoms. ~$180–$280 standalone, included in annual service.
See CO leak checks →Flue & chimney inspection
Internal flue camera, condensation and corrosion check, AS/NZS 5601 clearance audit, draft test, terminal cap and cowl inspection. Critical on tight-sealed retrofit homes. ~$200–$350.
See flue inspections →New heater installation
Type-A space heater install to AS 5601, flue install, gas pressure-test, Certificate of Compliance lodged with TasNetworks Gas. Rinnai, Braemar, Vulcan, Real Flame. ~$1,200–$2,500 supply-and-install.
See new installs →Heater replacement & upgrade
Decommission old gas, install new like-for-like or convert to reverse-cycle heat pump. Tasmanian Energy Saver Loan Scheme advice. STC paperwork on RC conversions. ~$2,000–$5,500 like-for-like.
See replacements →Three things every Hobart gas heater service should get right.
Hobart runs its heaters harder than anywhere on the mainland.
Hobart’s mean July overnight temperature is around 3°C and the heating season runs late April through to October — close to seven months. Around 60% of detached homes in the Greater Hobart LGAs use natural gas or LPG as the primary heating source. That works out to roughly 1,500–2,000 burner hours per season on a typical living-room heater, against maybe 600–800 on the same model in Sydney. Wear on burner jets, pilot assemblies, fan motors and heat exchangers accumulates far faster than the manufacturer warranty assumed — which is why the two-year AS 4575 service is the bare floor, not the target. Most of the heaters we condemn each winter were last serviced more than four years ago.
Sealed-envelope retrofits have changed the CO risk profile.
Hobart’s housing stock is being progressively upgraded with double glazing, ceiling insulation, weather-sealed doors and mechanical exhaust fans — particularly in Sandy Bay, Battery Point and the inner suburbs where the bones of the home date to the early twentieth century. The unintended consequence is that an open-flued space heater that was perfectly safe in the 1980s can now spill combustion products back into the living room because the kitchen rangehood, bathroom fan and clothes-dryer extraction together create enough negative pressure to reverse the flue draft. AS 4575 has a specific negative-pressure spillage test for exactly this scenario, and it is the test we see skipped most often.
The Tasmanian Gas Safety Act is not optional — check the paperwork.
Under the Tasmanian Gas Safety Act 2019 and the supporting regulations, every gas installation, alteration or replacement in the state must be carried out by a licensed gas-work practitioner and the work must be notified to the gas safety inspector via a Certificate of Compliance. That certificate is what your insurer, conveyancer and any future buyer will ask for. We lodge it on every job — new installs, replacements and relocations — and we’ll provide a copy of past certificates we have on file at no cost if you’re selling. If your last installer didn’t lodge one, the appliance is non-compliant on paper even if the workmanship was correct.
Where we service & install.
Greater Hobart — City of Hobart, Glenorchy City, Clarence City and Kingborough LGAs. Inner sandstone, eastern shore, northern suburbs and the Kingborough growth corridor. Same-week service slots through most of the heating season, faster turnaround in the shoulder months.
From booking to certificate — 5 stages.
Booking
Phone or online quote form. Most annual services booked within the week. Urgent CO concerns or heater-out failures jumped to same-day or next-day during winter.
On-site service
45–90 minutes per appliance. Burner strip and clean, injector inspection, gas pressure manometer test, pilot assembly check, ambient and spillage CO readings, flue draft test.
Condition report
Written report with photos, gas pressures, CO ppm readings and any deficiencies. Pass / pass-with-notes / fail rating. Within 24 hours of the visit.
Repair or replace
Parts repair where viable (pilot, thermocouple, fan motor, gas valve). Full replacement quote where the unit is past economic life or non-compliant on flue clearances.
Certificate & record
Service sticker on the appliance, Certificate of Compliance lodged for any installation work, digital service record emailed for your insurance or landlord file.
Ready to book your gas heater service?
45–90 min on-site. Written condition report within 24h. Certificate of Compliance if any installation work is involved.