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If you smell gas right now

Don't look for the leak yourself. Get everyone, pets included, out of the house. Don't flip light switches, use a lighter, or start a car in an attached garage. From outside or a neighbor's home, call your gas utility's emergency line or 911. Once the utility has made things safe, call us and we'll handle the repair on the house side of the meter.

Where the utility stops and we start

The gas company owns the line up to and including the meter. Everything after the meter, the piping that runs through your yard, crawl space, attic and walls to each appliance, is the homeowner's responsibility. That's the piping we repair and install.

Gas line work we do

Repairing a leak or a failed fitting. Older black-iron piping can corrode at threaded joints, flex connectors wear out, and shutoff valves stick or weep. We find the failure, replace the bad section, and test the whole run.

Adding a line for a new appliance. A gas range, a dryer, a tankless water heater, an outdoor kitchen, a fire pit or a standby generator all need a correctly sized line. Sizing matters: a tankless unit or a generator can draw far more gas than the line that fed your old tank-style water heater was built to deliver, so we calculate the load before we cut a pipe.

Replacing or relocating an existing line. Remodels often mean moving a range, dryer or furnace. We reroute the piping, cap what's abandoned, and test the new layout.

Shutoff valves and flex connectors. If an appliance doesn't have its own accessible shutoff, we add one so you can isolate it without turning off the whole house.

How we test every gas job

After the work is done we pressure-test the piping and check every joint we touched or connected. We confirm the appliance lights and runs correctly, and we explain what we tested. Where your city requires a permit and inspection for the work, we pull the permit and coordinate the inspection so you aren't left chasing it.

Signs of a gas problem that aren't an emergency but shouldn't wait

A faint, intermittent gas smell near an appliance, a pilot light that keeps going out, a yellow or orange burner flame instead of blue, soot or scorch marks around an appliance, or a gas bill that jumped with no change in how you live. Any of these is worth a visit. If the smell is strong, treat it as an emergency and follow the steps above.

Carbon monoxide is a separate risk

A gas leak and carbon monoxide are different problems. CO comes from incomplete combustion in a furnace, water heater or stove, and you can't smell it. Every level of your home with sleeping areas should have a working CO alarm. If an alarm sounds, get outside first, then call for service.

What it costs

We charge a flat dispatch fee of $29 for plumbing, applied toward any approved repair. You get a written quote before we start, with no hourly billing. A simple connector or valve swap and a full new line to an outdoor kitchen are very different jobs, so we price each one after we've seen it.

Related services

Planning a fuel-fired upgrade? See tankless water heater installation, tank water heater replacement, furnace installation, or a standby generator that runs on natural gas.