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Gas Line Repair in Pine Level, NC
Neither arrangement dominates Pine Level: 2% mains gas, 14% tank propane. This page applies to both, and the difference between them is the first thing to establish.
Read this first
Pine Level splits between mains and tank gas, at 2% on utility gas and 14% 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 Pine Level is supplied
In a town with both, the useful page is the one about the arrangement you actually have. The meter is the tell: if there is one, there is a service line behind it and a boundary at its outlet.
| Households in Pine Level | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 2% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 14% |
| Electricity | 82% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 2% |
| Wood and everything else | 1% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 544 occupied housing units. This is the heating-fuel table. It does not enumerate service lines, and no table does at this geography; what it gives is the best available indication of which arrangement a property is on. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across North Carolina as a whole, 31% of households are on mains gas and 4% on tank propane. Pine Level sits 29 points below the state on mains and 9 points above it on propane. That is the gap a statewide number papers over, and the reason the figures above are this town’s rather than the state’s.
Before anyone digs on the property
The single most dangerous thing most people will ever do to a gas line is put a spade through it. PHMSA calls excavation damage the leading cause of pipeline incidents; 8-1-1 is a nationwide toll-free number to call before any excavation, and calling it gives a 99 percent chance of avoiding an incident.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask which side of the meter the work is on before anything else. On the utility side it may not be a contractor job at all, and a quote that has not established that has not established whose problem it is.
Other North Carolina towns we route in
- Asheboro 17% mains gas · 5% tank propane
- Stony Point 3% mains gas · 3% tank propane
- Deep Gap 3% mains gas · 20% tank propane
- Richfield under 1% mains gas · 5% tank propane
- Carrboro 29% mains gas · 1% tank propane
Checking a plumber in North Carolina
North Carolina licenses are issued by the North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Plumbing, Heating and Fire Sprinkler Contractors, 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. We serve Pine Level for plumbing that has nothing to do with gas.
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