Gas Line Repair in Loveland, CO
Most of Loveland is on the gas main: 76% of households. That means a meter on the wall and a service line under the ground, and a boundary between them that federal rules put in a specific place.
Read this first
The utility's regulated line ends at the meter outlet and the piping beyond it belongs to the property owner. That boundary decides most gas line questions in Loveland, where 76% of households heat with utility gas and a buried service line runs from the street on most properties.
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 Loveland is supplied
The meter is the boundary the federal rules draw: a service line terminates at the meter outlet, or at the connection to customer piping if that is further downstream. Everything past it is customer piping.
Ownership and maintenance responsibility follow tariff and state regulation rather than that definition, and they do not always land in the same place. Ask where your utility’s responsibility ends before you need to know.
| Households in Loveland | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 76% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 3% |
| Electricity | 20% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | under 1% |
| Wood and everything else | 2% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 41,033 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 Colorado as a whole, 68% of households are on mains gas and 3% on tank propane. Loveland sits 7 points above the state on mains and about level with it on propane. That distance from the state average is the whole argument for publishing a town figure at all.
Before anyone digs on the property
8-1-1 is free and nationwide, and PHMSA gives callers a 99 percent chance of avoiding an incident, injury or worse. Ask them what they will and will not mark: privately owned buried lines on your own side of the meter frequently are not covered.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask how much gas work they actually do, not whether they can. Gas is separately licensed in most jurisdictions and plenty of capable plumbers do very little of it.
Other Colorado towns we route in
- Bellvue 18% mains gas · 36% tank propane
- Mead 88% mains gas · 3% tank propane
- Evergreen 60% mains gas · 15% tank propane
- Green Mountain Falls 63% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Silverthorne 45% mains gas · 4% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Colorado
Colorado licenses are issued by the Colorado State Plumbing Board, Division of Professions and Occupations, 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 Loveland for plumbing that has nothing to do with gas.
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