Guides
Plumbing and gas guides for Upstate homeowners
What to do when you smell gas, why a water heater quits, what the county inspector wants. Straight answers, written for here.
Gas safety
Gas safety · 6 min read
Your Gas Was Shut Off or Red-Tagged: How to Get It Back On
A red tag on the furnace or a lock on the meter means someone found a problem serious enough to stop the gas. It…
Gas safety · 5 min read
Gas Range and Dryer Hookups: What a Safe Connection Looks Like
Most gas leaks in a house are not in the pipe in the walls. They are in the last few feet behind the range…
Gas safety · 5 min read
Signs of a Gas Leak in Your Yard, and Whose Line It Is
Gas pipe in the ground can leak for months before anyone smells it. The clues are usually in the yard first: a brown strip…
Gas safety · 6 min read
What to Do If You Smell Gas in Your House
A rotten-egg smell in the house is the one plumbing problem where the first move is not a phone call or a wrench. It…
Gas appliances
Gas appliances · 6 min read
Vented or Vent-Free Gas Logs? An Honest Comparison
Gas logs come in two kinds that look alike in the showroom and behave very differently in your living room. One is mostly about…
Gas appliances · 4 min read
Gas Lines for Outdoor Kitchens, Grills and Fire Pits
A grill on a permanent gas line never runs out of propane halfway through dinner. Getting it there means a buried line, a riser,…
Gas appliances · 5 min read
Running a Natural Gas Line to a Standby Generator
A standby generator on natural gas will run as long as the gas does, which is why so many Upstate homeowners put one in…
Gas appliances · 5 min read
Gas Logs Won't Light or Stay Lit? What to Check First
The first cold night of fall is when everyone in the Upstate tries the gas logs, and when a lot of them refuse to…
Water heaters
Water heaters · 5 min read
Gas Line Sizing for a Tankless Water Heater
A gas tankless water heater can fire at close to five times what the tank it replaces did. The pipe that fed the tank…
Water heaters · 6 min read
Water Heater Leaking From the Bottom or Top: What to Do Now
Water around the base of a water heater gets your attention fast. Some leaks are a loose fitting or a valve doing its job,…
Water heaters · 4 min read
How Long Do Water Heaters Last, and What Wears Them Out?
A water heater usually fails on a weekday morning with no warning, except that there almost always was one. Here is how long tank…
Water heaters · 5 min read
Water Heater Not Heating? Safe Checks for Gas and Electric
No hot water usually means one of a handful of things, and a few of them you can check yourself in five minutes. Here…
Water heaters · 5 min read
Tank or Tankless Water Heater? An Honest Comparison for the Upstate
Tankless water heaters are good machines, and they are not the right answer for every house. Whether one makes sense for you depends on…
Homeowner know-how
Homeowner know-how · 6 min read
Adding Gas to an All-Electric House in the Upstate
Plenty of Upstate houses were built all-electric, sometimes on a street with a gas main running right past them. Adding gas is a project…
Homeowner know-how · 5 min read
Frozen Pipes in the Upstate: Prevention, Thawing and Bursts
Upstate winters are mild most of the time, which is exactly why a hard freeze catches houses off guard. Pipes here are often run…
Homeowner know-how · 4 min read
Gas Pressure Tests and Home Sales: What Buyers and Sellers Should Know
A gas pressure test is the one clear answer to the question every buyer has about an older gas system: does it leak? It…
Homeowner know-how · 6 min read
What Sets the Cost of a New Gas Line in the Upstate
Two gas lines to two ranges in the same neighborhood can be very different jobs. One is a short run straight down into an…
Homeowner know-how · 4 min read
Gas Line Permits in Spartanburg County: Who Issues Them and Why They Matter
Gas piping is permitted, inspected work in South Carolina. Which office issues the permit depends on which side of a city limit line your…
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