Gas Line Repair in South San Gabriel, CA

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Gas Line Work Around the Garvey Avenue Corridor

Much of the housing along and around Garvey Avenue has been standing for decades, and the gas piping inside it is often as old as the house. Three situations account for most of the calls we take here, and all of them fall under our gas line services:

• Original piping that has finally started to leak — older threaded steel gas pipe gives out at the joints and wherever it has sat against damp soil. We locate the leak, replace the bad section, or the whole run when it is past patching, and test the line.

• A line the gas company has shut off — when a SoCalGas technician finds a leak on the house side of the meter, the gas can stay off until the piping is repaired. That repair is our part.

• A new appliance or an addition — a gas range where an electric one stood, a tankless water heater, which usually needs a larger line than the tank it replaces, or a line extended to a room added at the back of the lot.

My mailing address says Rosemead. Who issues the gas permit?

Probably not the City of Rosemead. South San Gabriel is unincorporated, so a permit for gas piping here comes from Los Angeles County Public Works, Building and Safety, rather than from a city building department. We confirm the jurisdiction from your street address before we quote. We can pull the permit for you, which adds our administrative fee to the County’s charge, or you can pull it yourself.

Does the County require an earthquake gas shutoff valve here?

No. Los Angeles County Public Works states that seismic gas shutoff valves are not mandatory in unincorporated areas, while noting that owners commonly install them anyway. If you would like one, it is covered on our emergency shutoff valves page, and it can go in during the same visit as a gas line repair.