Gas line repair in Aurora, CO

Natural gas leaks are handled by emergency responders and the gas utility first. They shut off the supply, ventilate and decide whether the house is safe to enter. In most of the Aurora area that utility is Xcel Energy. Our work starts once the immediate danger is controlled and the problem has been traced to piping on the customer's side of the meter.

That split matters. The utility owns and maintains the meter and the service line feeding it. Everything downstream, including the pipe through your walls, the branches to each appliance and any buried lines to a grill or garage, belongs to the homeowner. Repairing that house side piping, properly and safely, is exactly the work we do.

We isolate the system and pressure test it to confirm a leak exists, then narrow it down section by section. Common culprits are threaded joints that have loosened over decades, old uncoated brass connectors behind appliances, unions near the water heater and furnace, and corroded pipe where it passes through a damp wall or crawlspace.

We use electronic gas detectors and leak detection solution on every joint we can reach. When a leak sits inside a wall or underground, we test each branch separately so only the faulty run gets opened up. That approach keeps drywall cuts and digging to the smallest area possible, which saves you repair costs afterward.

Depending on what we find, the fix might be a new appliance connector, a remade threaded joint, a replaced section of black iron, or a new run of coated flexible gas line. Buried yard lines that have corroded are usually replaced rather than patched, since one rusted spot is rarely the only weak point along that pipe.

After the repair, the system is pressure tested and must hold steady before gas is turned back on. Then we purge air, relight pilots and check each appliance for proper burner operation. If the utility shut off or locked the meter, it typically restores service once the repaired piping has passed its test.