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Gas Line Repair in Hope Valley, RI
In Hope Valley, 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.
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In Hope Valley, gas heats 12% of households and electricity heats most of the rest. A property with gas there is likelier to have a tank than a utility connection, so there is often no meter boundary in the picture at all.
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 Hope Valley is supplied
A town with little gas still has gas somewhere, and the arrangement matters just as much on the properties that have it. What changes is how many contractors nearby work on it regularly.
That is worth knowing when you are choosing one: ask how much gas work they actually do, not just whether they can.
| Households in Hope Valley | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 5% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 7% |
| Electricity | 10% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 64% |
| Wood and everything else | 14% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 2,024 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 Rhode Island as a whole, 56% of households are on mains gas and 4% on tank propane. Hope Valley sits 51 points below the state on mains and about level with it on propane. Averages are where this kind of difference disappears. The figures on this page are the town’s own for that reason.
Before anyone digs on the property
A locate before digging is free, and PHMSA is unambiguous about the value — excavation damage is the leading cause of pipeline incidents and calling 8-1-1 first avoids one 99 times in a hundred. The gap to ask about is private buried line, which a standard locate may not mark.
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 Rhode Island towns we route in
- Portsmouth 27% mains gas · 6% tank propane
- Providence 71% mains gas · 3% tank propane
- Albion 78% mains gas · 0% tank propane
- North Providence 66% mains gas · 5% tank propane
- Chepachet 2% mains gas · 14% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Rhode Island
Rhode Island licenses are issued by the Rhode Island Division of Professional Regulation, Department of Labor and Training, 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. Other Hope Valley requests are covered by the same line.
Call (888) 752-8038