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Gas abolishment and disconnection

Once every gas appliance is gone, removing the gas meter is what ends the daily supply charge for good. It’s the final step in getting your home off gas.

A common sign

“We don’t use gas anymore, but we’re still getting a gas bill.”
Most gas bills include a daily charge just for being connected. Until the meter is removed, that charge keeps coming, even if you use no gas at all.

About gas abolishment and disconnection

Finish the job and stop the gas bill.

Turning appliances off isn’t enough to end your gas bill. The connection itself has a daily charge. Removing the meter, often called abolishment, permanently disconnects your home from the gas network.

The process usually involves your gas retailer and the network that owns the pipes, and a licensed gasfitter makes the pipes inside your property safe. A specialist can help you work through each step in the right order.

Helps with

Gas bills for a home that no longer uses gas

Helps with

Finishing the switch to all electric

Helps with

Old gas pipes and appliances left behind

Before you start

Make sure every gas appliance is gone first, including any heater, cooktop, hot water system or outdoor barbecue that runs on mains gas.

Not sure where to start?

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Gas abolishment and disconnection specialists

Find gas abolishment and disconnection specialists near you.

A few of the 73 listed across Australia

Work by Cool AZ Pty Ltd.

Cool AZ Pty Ltd

4.9 36 Google reviews

Split system air conditioningAir conditioning servicingGas abolishment and disconnectionSwitchboard upgradesDucted reverse cycle heating and cooling

Serves Clyde and surrounding suburbs | Based in Clyde

A two storey white rendered home with a full array of solar panels and a waterwise garden.

Powerband Electrical

5.0 213 Google reviews

Rooftop solar installationHome battery installationDucted reverse cycle heating and coolingSplit system air conditioningHeat pump hot water systemsInduction cooktop installationHome EV charger installationGas abolishment and disconnectionSolar and battery upgradesSwitchboard upgrades

Serves Somerville and surrounding suburbs | Based in Somerville

A timber clad coastal home with solar panels on a curved roof, behind sand dunes and coastal heath.

Progressive Plumbing Group

5.0 44 Google reviews

Heat pump hot water systemsSolar hot waterGas abolishment and disconnection

Serves Ringwood and surrounding suburbs | Based in Ringwood

A sage green weatherboard cottage with a picket fence and solar panels, frost on the lawn.

Endpoint Plumbing

4.9 349 Google reviews

Heat pump hot water systemsSolar hot waterGas abolishment and disconnection

Serves Thomastown and surrounding suburbs | Based in Thomastown

Work by doENERGI.

doENERGI

4.9 17 Google reviews

Heat pump hot water systemsSplit system air conditioningRooftop solar installationHome battery installationHome EV charger installationHome energy assessments and auditsHydronic heatingDucted reverse cycle heating and coolingSwitchboard upgradesSolar hot waterSolar and battery upgradesThree phase power upgradesAir conditioning servicingGas abolishment and disconnection

Serves Noble Park North and surrounding suburbs | Based in Noble Park North

More in gas to electric

Other upgrades in this category.

Replace the gas appliances one by one, hot water, heating, cooking, and stop paying two connection fees to keep the house running.

An air-to-water heat pump outdoor unit with black insulated pipes on a concrete pad beside the curved rendered wall of a modern home, native garden around it and a living room through the glass doors.

Hydronic heating

Heats the water in your radiators or heated slab with an electric heat pump instead of a gas boiler. The pipes and radiators can often stay, though not always, so ask.

Two flat solar hot water collectors with a white storage tank above them on the dark metal roof of a modern home, the sun setting behind gum trees.

Solar hot water

Roof collectors with a boosted tank. A different product from a heat pump, and still the cheaper option on some rooftops.

A woman crouching at the edge of a backyard pool to test the water, with a pool heat pump beside the pool equipment and solar panels on the roof behind.

Pool heating

Warms the pool with an electric heat pump or solar collectors on the roof instead of gas. Pairs well with rooftop solar, and a pool cover keeps the heat in.

An electrician in safety glasses kneeling at a new switchboard in a garage, a home battery on the wall beside it and low sun through the open door.

Switchboard upgrades

An older board often cannot take an induction cooktop, a heat pump and a charger at once. This is the job that unblocks the rest.

Before you choose an installer

See our guides on switching from gas to electric.

All guides

Related goal

This is the last step off gas.

Haven’t replaced everything yet? See the full plan for getting off gas, from hot water to the cooktop.