Running Pipes, and More!

If you have gas-powered appliances in your home, they'll be connected to gas lines. These lines can leak over time, which creates a safety hazard. That's why you want to carefully approach this problem and ideally follow these protocols. 

Vacate Home Immediately

If you start smelling gas odors around your home, it's important to get your family out of the home immediately. This will prevent you from breathing in harmful odors as well as safeguard your family from potential explosions or fires.

Then once you're safe, you can contact a plumber or gas line repair expert to see what repair tactics need to be implemented right away. You don't want to try staying in your home and finding the source of the leak because that will only expose you to dangerous conditions. Let professionals handle this leak just to be safe.

Find Out Which Gas Line is Leaking

If there are multiple gas lines incorporated throughout your home because you rely on a lot of gas-related appliances, then you need to find out which line is leaking. Then your repair tactics will be more focused and thus have more of an impact.

Let a plumber or representative from a gas company come out and make this assessment. They can use their years of training to properly identify the line that's causing the leak issue around your property. They can then assess the damage to see if the line can be repaired or not.

Make Sure a Quality Epoxy Solution is Used

Once the right gas line is targeted for causing the leak, you need to restore the line where there's structural damage. It could be a small hole or tear that's causing gas to leak out. The most important thing to remember when fixing this structural issue is to use a high-quality epoxy solution to cover it up.

That should seal the damaged portion of the line and thus keep gas from leaking out. You'll want to speak to a plumber or gas specialist to find high-quality epoxy that's going to provide a long-term seal that you don't have to question or adjust any time soon. 

Gas line leaks can happen around residential properties, whether it's because the lines are just old or weren't installed correctly in the beginning. As long as you respond quickly to this leak and let professionals help you figure out gas line repairs, you can keep this issue from getting worse over time.