Gas Line Repair in Huntington Beach, CA

Plumbing Tips

What the Coast Does to a Gas Line

Indoors, steel gas pipe can last as long as the house. Outdoors in Huntington Beach it has a harder life, and outdoors is where we find most of the trouble:

• Rust at the meter and the riser — the pipe that comes out of the ground and runs along the side of the house sits in salt air all year, from Huntington Harbour to the tracts inland, and threads and fittings are where the rust starts. A leak here is often the one the utility finds and shuts off.

• Backyard fire pits, grills and outdoor kitchens — each fire feature needs a properly sized branch with its own shutoff, in pipe and coating meant for burial and for this air. We extend the line and test it before anything is lit.

• Restaurant gas lines on Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway — commercial kitchens add and move equipment constantly, and the gas piping has to keep up. Our commercial plumbing page explains how we work around a restaurant’s hours.

Why did the gas company shut off my meter and tell me to call a plumber?

Because the leak is on your side of the meter. The utility looks after the pipe up to and including the meter; everything after it belongs to the property owner, and the gas stays off until that piping has been repaired and holds pressure. That repair and that test are what we do. In a slab-foundation tract home the fix is sometimes a new section of exposed pipe outside and sometimes a rerouted line, and we show you which before quoting.

Where does a Huntington Beach gas permit come from?

The Building Division of the City of Huntington Beach, part of Community Development, through the Permit Center at City Hall on Main Street. New lines, extensions and replaced runs generally need a permit and an inspection; a minor like-for-like repair may not. You have two ways to handle it: pull the permit yourself, or have us pull it and pay our administrative fee on top of the city’s.