Gas Line Repair in Nunnelly, TN
In Nunnelly, 12% of homes use gas of any sort. Most properties here have no service line and no meter, and the ones that do are the exception.
Read this first
Only 12% of homes in Nunnelly 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 Nunnelly 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 Nunnelly | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 9% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 3% |
| Electricity | 79% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 0% |
| Wood and everything else | 9% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 959 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 Tennessee as a whole, 36% of households are on mains gas and 2% on tank propane. Nunnelly sits 27 points below the state on mains and about level with it on propane. The state number would tell you something true about the state and very little about here, which is why it is not the number above.
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
If any part of the job is in the ground, ask when they are calling 8-1-1 and whether a private line may be in the way. Both answers should come before the excavation, not during it.
Other Tennessee towns we route in
- Oakland 65% mains gas · 4% tank propane
- Hohenwald 37% mains gas · 6% tank propane
- Drummonds 59% mains gas · 3% tank propane
- Collierville 62% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Smyrna 29% mains gas · 1% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Tennessee
Tennessee licenses are issued by the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Department of Commerce and Insurance, 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. Gas is one part of what Nunnelly calls us about.
Call (888) 752-8038