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Gas Line Repair in Edgemoor, SC
Edgemoor is a town of two systems. 33% take mains gas and 12% use propane, and only one of those arrangements has a utility on the other side of it.
Read this first
Mains gas heats 33% of homes in Edgemoor and tank gas another 12%. The difference matters more than the fault does at first, because only one of the two has a meter outlet where the utility's responsibility stops.
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 Edgemoor is supplied
Mains and tank gas differ in ownership, in who to call, and in how the gas behaves if it escapes — propane is heavier than air and collects low rather than rising.
What they do not differ in is the emergency response, which is the same for both and is the first thing on every page of this site.
| Households in Edgemoor | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 33% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 12% |
| Electricity | 54% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 0% |
| Wood and everything else | 1% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 846 occupied housing units. The table counts heating fuel rather than pipework. A house on mains gas almost certainly has a service line; the Census does not say so directly and neither do we. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across South Carolina as a whole, 31% of households are on mains gas and 3% on tank propane. Edgemoor sits about level with the state on propane; its mains share carries too wide a margin of error to compare. 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
One free call before any excavation. PHMSA is blunt about why: excavation damage is the leading cause of pipeline incidents, and 8-1-1 raises the odds of avoiding one to 99 in 100. It applies to a fence post as much as a foundation.
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 South Carolina towns we route in
- Sharon 4% mains gas · 13% tank propane
- Kershaw 28% mains gas · 4% tank propane
- Starr 6% mains gas · 4% tank propane
- Trenton 4% mains gas · 10% tank propane
- Greenville 34% mains gas · 2% tank propane
Checking a plumber in South Carolina
South Carolina licenses are issued by the South Carolina Residential Builders Commission, Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. South Carolina requires a residential plumber license for work over $500, according to the Commission.
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. Non-emergency work in Edgemoor goes through this number as well.
Call (888) 752-8038