⚠️ If you smell gas
Don't touch any switch. Leave the building. Call FortisBC at 1-800-663-9911 from outside. Then call us on 604-865-7979.
Licensed gas fitters — contractor licence LIC-00215637 — working across Burnaby, typically reaching the city in 90 minutes. Most residential gas work runs $500–$2,500.
Burnaby is a detached-housing city with yards, decks and patios, and that shapes what we're called for here more than anywhere else in our service area.
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Outdoor gas lines — the Burnaby job
More outdoor gas line work happens in Burnaby than in Vancouver, and the reason is simply that more people here have a back garden to put a BBQ in.
A permanent gas line to a BBQ, fire table or patio heater ends the propane tank cycle — no running out mid-cook, no exchanging cylinders, no storing them. It's a modest job on most Burnaby lots because the gas supply is usually already in the house and the run is short.
Cost is driven almost entirely by distance and route: from the existing supply, out through the rim joist or foundation, and to the appliance location. $800–$2,500 covers most of it. Buried sections to a detached patio or outdoor kitchen cost more.
⚠️ Best done between spring and early autumn — the ground is workable and you have the summer to use it. Everyone books in June; April is quieter and the same price.
Gas fireplaces in the post-war housing
Burnaby Heights, Capitol Hill and Willingdon Heights are full of 1940s–60s houses, and a large number have had a gas fireplace or insert fitted into an original wood-burning fireplace at some point in the last thirty years.
Two things come up constantly on those:
Annual servicing that hasn't happened. Glass seals degrade, burners need cleaning, venting needs checking. An unserviced gas fireplace is a combustion safety question, not just an efficiency one.
Units at end of life. A gas insert fitted in the 1990s is now thirty years old, parts are scarce, and replacement is usually the answer. The existing chimney is generally reusable as a venting chase with a new liner, which keeps the cost down.
The chimney issue in older Burnaby houses
Same as we see on tank replacements here, and it applies to gas work generally: many post-war Burnaby houses had a furnace and a water heater sharing one masonry chimney. When the furnace was replaced with a high-efficiency unit venting through a sidewall, the water heater was left venting alone into a flue sized for two appliances.
That affects draft, and draft on a gas appliance is a carbon monoxide question. We check it whenever we're doing gas work in a house of that age.
The towers
Metrotown, Brentwood and Lougheed suites frequently have no suite-level gas at all, or gas limited to an existing fireplace. If you're in a tower and considering a gas appliance, the answer may be no — and we'll tell you before anyone quotes.
What we do in Burnaby
Gas line installation · appliance hookups · gas fireplace installation and annual servicing · outdoor BBQ and fire table lines · leak detection, 24/7 · permits and safety inspections · meter and regulator relocation, coordinated with FortisBC
Gas permits are issued by the City of Burnaby, not Technical Safety BC. Technical Safety BC: Jurisdiction
Installing, modifying or upgrading any part of a gas system in a single-family or duplex dwelling requires a City gas permit. City of Burnaby: Residential Trade Permits
منبع: Technical Safety BC: Jurisdiction — https://www.technicalsafetybc.ca/about/jurisdiction-information · City of Burnaby: Residential Trade Permits — https://www.burnaby.ca/services-and-payments/development-permits-construction/residential-trade-permits · checked 2026-09-11
