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If you’re a landlord or property manager searching for the gas safety check compliance certificate cost in Victoria, the short answer is somewhere between $250 and $450+GST per check, depending on how many gas appliances are on the property. But the price only tells part of the story, what actually gets checked, who’s legally allowed to do it, and how often it’s required matter just as much if you want to stay compliant and keep tenants safe.

Yes. Under the Residential Tenancies Regulations 2021, rental providers in Victoria must have a gas safety check carried out at the property every two years. The check has to be performed by a gasfitter holding Type A Appliance Servicing accreditation, not just any licensed gasfitter, and not a general handyman. Once completed, the compliance report must be made available to the tenant at the start of a new tenancy, or within 7 days of a tenant requesting it.

This isn’t a box-ticking exercise. Energy Safe Victoria strongly recommends the same full-service standard for all gas appliances, rental or not, because the risk it’s protecting against, carbon monoxide leaking from a cracked heat exchanger, is invisible, odourless, and potentially fatal.

What a Gas Safety Check Actually Covers

A proper gas safety check is a full service of every gas appliance connected to the property’s supply, not a quick appliance test. It covers two distinct parts.

Appliance Servicing

For each gas appliance, this includes cleaning dust and debris from burners, pilots, fans, filters and air intakes, checking the heat exchanger for cracks, verifying gas supply and operating pressures, confirming reliable burner ignition, checking for flame abnormalities, and testing safety devices. Heating appliances also get a combustion spillage test, the actual carbon monoxide check. A gas heater service typically takes 60 to 75 minutes; other appliances take 15 to 30 minutes each.

Gas Installation Checks

Separately, the technician checks pressure retention on the main gas line, confirms the gas regulator is accessible for servicing, checks that appliances like cooktops are properly restrained against tipping, verifies clearance from combustible surfaces, confirms adequate ventilation, and checks that gas isolation valves are correctly installed. If the property runs LPG cylinders, those get checked too. This half of the process typically takes another 20 to 50 minutes.

Skip either half and the check isn’t compliant, a carbon monoxide test alone, without the appliance service and installation checks, doesn’t meet the regulatory requirement.

What It Costs

Pricing generally scales with the number of gas appliances on the property rather than being a flat fee. For a single appliance, expect somewhere around $250 to $300+GST. With two or more appliances, common in larger homes with a gas heater, a gas cooktop, and gas hot water, the cost typically runs $350 to $450+GST. Bundling the gas check with electrical safety and smoke alarm checks in the same visit often brings the combined price down to around $550+GST for all three, since a single callout covers the lot.

Get a written quote before booking, and confirm the price includes the full appliance service, not just a compliance report generated from a partial inspection.

How Often You Need One

Every two years, for the life of the tenancy. It’s worth booking ahead of winter rather than after the first cold snap, heaters that have sat unused for months are exactly where cracked heat exchangers and pilot faults tend to surface, right when they’re switched back on and running for hours at a time.

What Happens If You Don’t Get One Done

Beyond the compliance risk, an unchecked gas heater with a cracked heat exchanger can leak carbon monoxide into a living space without any smell or visible warning sign. For landlords, failing to meet the two-year check requirement also creates a real gap if something goes wrong, insurers and tribunals both look at whether the required checks were completed and documented.

Local Considerations for Older Rentals

A good share of rental properties across Geelong, the Bellarine Peninsula, and the Surf Coast are older weatherboard homes running ducted or wall-mounted gas heaters that have been in place for well over a decade. These units see the heaviest seasonal use and the highest risk of heat exchanger wear, which makes the full-service standard, not a shortcut CO test, genuinely important rather than a formality.

Book a Compliant Check

If you’re due for a gas safety check on a rental property, Newflo Plumbing’s licensed gasfitters carry out full compliance checks across Geelong, Torquay, Anglesea, Portarlington, Drysdale, and the wider Bellarine Peninsula, with upfront pricing before any work starts. Get in touch for a quote and we’ll get you booked in before the report’s due.