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Gas Line Repair in Sharon, SC
Sharon runs on both: 4% mains gas, 13% tank propane, 16% on gas of some kind. The two arrangements answer the ownership question completely differently.
Read this first
Sharon splits between mains and tank gas, at 4% on utility gas and 13% on bottled. Which one a property has decides where responsibility changes hands: a meter outlet marks the boundary on mains gas, while a tank puts the whole installation on the owner.
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 Sharon 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 Sharon | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 4% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 13% |
| Electricity | 74% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 3% |
| Wood and everything else | 6% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 981 occupied housing units. This is the heating-fuel table. It does not enumerate service lines, and no table does at this geography; what it gives is the best available indication of which arrangement a property is on. 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. Sharon sits 27 points below the state on mains and 10 points above 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
Digging is the risk, not age or material. PHMSA names excavation damage as the leading cause of pipeline incidents and puts a caller’s chance of avoiding one at 99 percent. 8-1-1 is nationwide, toll-free, and costs nothing.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask whether the job needs a permit and who is pulling it. Gas work is separately permitted in most jurisdictions and the answer should not be you.
Other South Carolina towns we route in
- Greer 44% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Travelers Rest 11% mains gas · 9% tank propane
- Gaffney 19% mains gas · 9% tank propane
- Aynor 1% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Salem 2% mains gas · 11% 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. We serve Sharon for plumbing that has nothing to do with gas.
Call (888) 752-8038