Gas Line Repair in Biddeford, ME
Biddeford runs on both: 6% mains gas, 13% tank propane, 19% on gas of some kind. The two arrangements answer the ownership question completely differently.
Read this first
Biddeford splits between mains and tank gas, at 6% on utility gas and 13% on bottled. Which one a property has decides where responsibility changes hands: a meter outlet marks the boundary on mains gas, while a tank puts the whole installation on the owner.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey table B25040; the service line boundary is 49 CFR § 192.3.
If you smell gas right now
Leave the building on foot. Do not use a phone or a light switch inside. Call 911 and your gas utility from somewhere else, and do not call us — we are a referral service, not an emergency line. The full list, in order.
How Biddeford is supplied
Where both are common, so is the assumption that they work the same way. They do not: on mains, part of the system is somebody else’s responsibility; on propane, none of it is.
| Households in Biddeford | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 6% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 13% |
| Electricity | 12% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 65% |
| Wood and everything else | 5% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 9,982 occupied housing units. Read it as fuel rather than as plumbing. The share on utility gas is how many houses burn it, which is the nearest thing published to how many have a service line. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across Maine as a whole, 5% of households are on mains gas and 16% on tank propane. Biddeford sits about level with the state on mains and 3 points below it on propane. A state figure would flatten exactly that difference, which is the reason these pages are built town by town instead.
Before anyone digs on the property
Before any digging — a fence post as much as a foundation — call 8-1-1. It is a nationwide toll-free number, it costs nothing, and PHMSA puts the chance of avoiding an incident afterwards at 99 percent.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask whether the job needs a permit and who is pulling it. Gas work is separately permitted in most jurisdictions and the answer should not be you.
Other Maine towns we route in
- Eliot 4% mains gas · 24% tank propane
- Kennebunkport 0% mains gas · 21% tank propane
- York 3% mains gas · 19% tank propane
- Saco 9% mains gas · 12% tank propane
- Ogunquit 1% mains gas · 16% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Maine
Maine licenses are issued by the Maine Plumbers' Examining Board, Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
Gas work is separately permitted and separately licensed in most jurisdictions, so ask specifically about gas rather than plumbing in general.
For repair work, not for a suspected leak.If you can smell gas, leave and call 911 or your utility from outside; this is the wrong number for that. For everything else — a line, a meter, an appliance connection — we will route you to a contractor covering your area, free of charge to you. Non-emergency work in Biddeford goes through this number as well.
Call (888) 752-8038