It’s amazing that you can find instructions and tutorials online these days. One quick search and you could be watching a video about how to build or fix just about anything you have in your house! And this is great, if you have a bureau with a broken drawer, or you want to give wallpapering a try. But when it comes to your gas pipes, DIY is not the answer.
Always, always leave any work on your home’s gas system to the experts. Whether it’s a gas line repair or extension, or installing or fixing a gas appliance, you need a professional. What sort? A plumber! Here’s why.
Why DIY Is a Disaster for Gas
Trust us, we have your best interests at heart. There are so many reasons not to meddle with your gas pipes! Here are some of the most important ones.
- Personal Safety: When you work on a gas line or gas appliance without the proper training, there are both short-term hazards—including an explosion!—and long-term hazards you might not notice until it’s too late. That could include gas leaks, risk of fire, and carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Your Home: It might go without saying, but any of these serious hazards could do a great deal of damage to not just you, but your home.
- Equipment Damage: It’s far too easy to cause damage to your pipes, fixtures, or appliances when you aren’t extensively trained.
- Voided Warranties: If anything you work on was under warranty, it won’t be once you’ve tried to repair it! Warranty agreements require that gas appliances be installed, maintained, and repaired by qualified professionals.
- Legal Concerns: Most municipalities require anyone who works on gas lines or appliances to be certified and insured. You could end up with legal liability, or with your homeowner’s insurance refusing to cover any damage.
- Lack of Tools: For rare projects, it’s absolutely not worth purchasing whole sets of costly tools and equipment which the professionals already have on hand.
- Time Wasted: When you don’t have the training or the tools, it can take far, far longer to accomplish your goals.
- Money Wasted: Finally, after all that risk and all that time working, it’s quite likely you’ll have made unnecessary purchases and that you won’t even end up with the work properly finished! Chances are, you’ll end up calling the experts to fix not just the original problem, but also whatever DIY damage you’ve done.
Why Plumbers Work on Gas Pipes
In order to cut and solder, install and repair gas pipes, you’ll need the same tools you’d need for water pipes! It’s also equally important for the work to be just as precisely done, because you don’t want either a gas leak or a water leak. Your certified, licensed, insured plumber is the only person who should be working on any gas pipes in and around your home.
When you need gas pipe repair in Shallowater, TX, always rely on our trustworthy team of qualified plumbers.
JD’s Prompt Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning serves the Lubbock area. Contact us for all your gas and water plumbing needs.