Natural gas makes your life easier in several ways. It can help you dry clothes, cook, and keep everyone in your home warm. Whether you’re renovating your house or moving to a new one, you may consider running natural gas lines throughout your property. But is it safe for you to run a natural gas line? Not unless you’re a trained professional.
Why to Avoid Working on Natural Gas Lines
There are numerous reasons to avoid working on natural gas lines yourself. Here are the top three.
1. It’s Potentially Dangerous
Natural gas is extremely flammable. If you experience a gas line-related problem, natural gas can leak out of the lines and into your home or yard, causing your property to catch fire. Besides the obvious fire hazard, natural gas is dangerous to work around without proper safety gear.
Continual exposure to natural gas can cause:
- Memory-related problems
- Loss of consciousness
- Severe headaches
- Suffocation
- Nausea
- Vomiting
2. It’s Time-Consuming
Natural gas systems contain networks of pipes that are designed to pull the natural gas from the environment and bring it into your home. If you attempt to work with these gas lines, you’ll quickly learn how complicated they are. Trying to run a natural gas line as an untrained person will be immensely time-consuming as you figure out how to do the job right. It’s better to save yourself time and let Gideon Plumbing quickly resolve your gas line-related problem.
3. It’s Easy to Make Mistakes
Without the proper knowledge and tools to diagnose problems with natural gas lines, it’s easy to make mistakes while working on them. Considering the havoc a natural gas leak can wreak on your home, mistakes made while running lines can be serious. All it takes is one wrong move, and you can have an explosion on your hands.
Safe and Secure Gas Line Installations
For your safety, leave running natural gas lines to our team of experts serving the Duncan, BC area. In addition to working with gas lines, we offer comprehensive plumbing services that include drain cleaning, resolving sewer line issues, pipe repairs and replacements, valve installation and repair, and water heaters. Contact Gideon Plumbing today for help with natural gas line repairs and installations.