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Gas Line Repair in Jaffrey, NH
Only 11% of households in Jaffrey use gas of any kind — 1% on mains and 10% on tank propane. Gas line work is the exception here rather than the rule.
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Only 11% of homes in Jaffrey use gas for heat. That makes a gas line the exception rather than the rule, and the ones that exist are usually tank supplies owned on the property instead of utility service lines ending at a meter.
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 Jaffrey is supplied
Low local gas use does not make a buried line safer or a leak less serious. It makes the subject less familiar, which is a different problem and arguably a worse one.
The emergency response does not vary at all: leave on foot, no phones or switches inside, call 911 from elsewhere.
| Households in Jaffrey | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 1% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 10% |
| Electricity | 2% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 63% |
| Wood and everything else | 24% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 2,063 occupied housing units. What B25040 measures is the heating fuel, not the connection. It is the closest published proxy for whether there is a buried service line here, and it is a proxy. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across New Hampshire as a whole, 25% of households are on mains gas and 17% on tank propane. Jaffrey sits 24 points below the state on mains and 8 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
PHMSA describes excavation damage as the leading cause of pipeline incidents, and puts the effect of one free phone call plainly: someone who calls 8-1-1 before they dig has a 99 percent chance of avoiding an incident, injury, harm to the environment and even death.
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 New Hampshire towns we route in
- Newton 4% mains gas · 22% tank propane
- Henniker 12% mains gas · 26% tank propane
- East Kingston 2% mains gas · 28% tank propane
- Deerfield 3% mains gas · 26% tank propane
- Litchfield 7% mains gas · 35% tank propane
Checking a plumber in New Hampshire
The authority is the New Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification, Mechanical Safety and Licensing Board. New Hampshire licenses plumbers but publishes no online licensee search, so verification means contacting the office directly.
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. Other Jaffrey requests are covered by the same line.
Call (888) 752-8038