Gas Line Services in Tempe, AZ
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A tape measure settles more Tempe gas jobs than any document does. What it takes is the distance between the shutoff behind the old appliance and the spot the new one will actually stand. Land back on the valve that is already there, and the work is an appliance connection. Move off it by two feet, and the city's code calls that altering the gas system.
So the tape comes out at the valve before anything else is settled. Pavel Farcas (Paul), who owns the company, puts in the pipe himself.
AZ ROC #150707
Licensed, Bonded & Insured
Kitchen & Laundry Gas Lines
Black Iron, CSST & Buried Poly
Leaking Gas Pipe Repaired
Family-Owned Since 2000
Gas Work Hours
Gas jobs are booked Monday to Saturday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.Check or Zelle
Both work, and so does cash; we do not accept cards.Veterans First: 15%
15% off for them; 10% off for seniors, first responders, and people serving in the military.10% Off Calls to $300
Bills of $300 or less come down 10%.Holiday Rate
Jobs done on a holiday are billed at a 25% holiday rate.Callback Timing
We usually return a missed call within 10 to 15 minutes.AZ ROC #150707
Licensed, Bonded & Insured
Kitchen & Laundry Gas Lines
Black Iron, CSST & Buried Poly
Leaking Gas Pipe Repaired
Family-Owned Since 2000
Gas Work Hours
Gas jobs are booked Monday to Saturday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.Check or Zelle
Both work, and so does cash; we do not accept cards.Veterans First: 15%
15% off for them; 10% off for seniors, first responders, and people serving in the military.10% Off Calls to $300
Bills of $300 or less come down 10%.Holiday Rate
Jobs done on a holiday are billed at a 25% holiday rate.Callback Timing
We usually return a missed call within 10 to 15 minutes.Gas Line Requests From Tempe Households
“The new range is going exactly where the old one was. Does that need a permit?”
The valve behind it decides that one.
For a house, two-family home, or townhome, Tempe's code exempts hooking up a cooking or clothes-drying appliance that isn't fixed in place. If the shutoff behind it stays put and no pipe is touched, the job is what it looks like: an appliance put back on an outlet that is already there.
“We're switching from an electric range to gas.”
No valve behind it, so new pipe.
Nothing is feeding that wall, so a branch has to come off the house system: a tee cut into the existing run, pipe from there to the spot where the range will stand, and a stub with its own shutoff at the end. New pipe is on Tempe's permit list, and the branch is sized for the range on top of whatever that leg already feeds.
“The remodel contractor wants the dryer line moved two feet.”
Two feet of pipe is still an alteration.
The old drop gets capped back where it tees off, and a new one is run to the new spot. Tempe's code requires a permit to alter a gas system, and "two feet" and "twenty feet" appear on the same side of that wording. Tell us the remodel dates, and the move is planned around them.
“We want gas out to the grill island by the patio.”
A new outlet at the far end of a new run.
That one leaves the house: a trench, buried pipe out to the island, a riser where it comes back up, and a shutoff at the island itself. It is permit work from end to end, and Tempe's inspection sheet says work to be inspected “must be accessible and exposed,” so the trench stays open for it.
From the Old Valve to the New One
What is going in, and where it will stand
Tell us the appliance, the spot it will occupy, and what else in the house already runs on gas. If you smell gas, get everyone out, then call 911 and the gas utility from outside.
The old valve measured
On-site, the first measurement taken is the distance between the shutoff that is there now and where the appliance will actually stand. Call (602) 883-2787, and that is the measurement the visit starts with.
Which side of the line it falls on
An appliance set back on an existing valve and a branch run to a new spot are two jobs with two scopes. Where pipe is added or altered, the work sits on Tempe's permit list, and the quote says so plainly.
The branch priced
A new branch is a tee cut into the existing run, the length from there to the new spot, the wall or floor that length has to cross, and a stub and shutoff where the appliance lands. The bore is settled here, against the new load and what the leg already feeds.
Pipe in, held under pressure, left in view
The run goes in, and the new piping is brought up to pressure and held before anything joins it. Tempe's inspection sheet says work to be inspected “must be accessible and exposed,” so nothing is closed up ahead of that visit.
The new valve on, the old one capped
The branch terminates at its own shutoff at the appliance's new position, and the appliance is connected to it. Where a drop has been left with nothing on the end, it is capped back at the tee, so no length of dead pipe stays live behind a finished wall.
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American Discount Plumbing is based in Phoenix and serves all of Tempe.
Three Shapes a Tempe Gas Job Takes
Nearly every gas call in Tempe is one of three: an appliance landing on an existing valve, an existing branch moved or lengthened for a remodel, or a new run to a spot that has had no gas before. They are priced apart because the amount of pipe in them is different, and they are scoped apart because the city's wording treats them differently.
Repairs sit alongside all three: a leaking section behind a wall, a corroded run out to a backyard appliance, a drop left charged after the appliance went.
In homes built before 1978, we only take on work that leaves painted surfaces undisturbed. If a new route would need a painted wall opened, that part goes to a lead-safe certified contractor you hire directly; we do not perform or arrange it.
Our appliance and outdoor gas pages go further into each kind of line.
Where Tempe Draws the Line, and It Runs Through the Valve
The wording that decides it
Tempe's administrative code asks for a permit to “install, enlarge, alter, repair, remove, convert or replace any electrical, gas, mechanical or plumbing system.” Its list of gas work needing no permit is short: a portable heating appliance; in a detached single-family dwelling, two-family dwelling or townhouse, hooking up a “portable cooking or clothes drying appliance”; and “replacement of any minor part that does not alter approval of equipment or make such equipment unsafe.”
Same spot, same valve
A range or a dryer set down where the last one stood, on the shutoff already behind it, with no pipe touched, falls within that exempt wording. The work is an appliance connection, and the pipe in the wall stays as the last permit left it.
Two feet over
Slide the appliance along the wall and the valve has to follow it. That means a tee cut into the existing pipe, a length of new pipe to the new position, and a stub and shutoff where the appliance now lands. The code calls that altering the gas system, and altering is on the permit list. Two feet of new pipe and twenty feet of new pipe sit on the same side of that sentence, which is the part homeowners find surprising.
A spot with no gas on it yet
A gas range in an all-electric kitchen, a dryer where only a 240-volt outlet has ever been, a grill island at the end of the patio: each one is new pipe from a tee back on the house system out to an outlet that did not exist. Each is permit work, and each is the case where the branch has to carry the new appliance on top of whatever that leg already feeds.
And the fee may come back
Once a permit is in play, Tempe's code carries a refund: “Building permit and plan review fees for improvements to single-family residences may be rebated to the property owner or permit applicant, with owner approval, upon successful completion of the project.” The project has to pass its final inspection “within one year of permit issuance date,” and the application has to reach the city “within 60 days of final inspection approval date.” The city's pages name gas permits on neither the eligible list nor the excluded one, so a single-family gas permit may qualify, and the city decides. Questions go to rebate@tempe.gov.
What Gets Settled Before the Pipe Is Cut
Hookups, Alterations and the Tempe Permit
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It can. The stub is looked over, and the line is proved before anything is hung on it, and where nothing about the pipework changes, the job is an appliance going on an outlet that already exists.
An extension is new pipe, however short it is: a tee, a length, and a fresh stub and shutoff on the end. The branch is resized at the same time, since the appliance now sits further from the meter than it did.
Repairing a gas system is on the code's permit list. Replacing a minor part is exempt, and replacing a section of leaking pipe is permit work.
Extending or resizing the gas pipe to feed a new tankless heater alters the gas system, which Tempe's code lists as permit work. The heater swap itself also falls outside the city's like-for-like exemption, because the type of heater changes.
Tempe names its eligible fees as building permit, plan review, supplemental review, revision, and single-family grading and drainage, and excludes planning fees, water and sewer permits for right-of-way work, and fire fees. Gas permits appear on neither list, so one may qualify, and the city decides. rebate@tempe.gov is where to ask.
Tempe's code says a permit expires where the work it covers has not been started and an approved inspection obtained within one year of the day it was issued.
The exempt item for hooking up a cooking or clothes-drying appliance names detached single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings and townhouses, so the wording is there. The fee rebate is a separate rule written for single-family residences.
Every Service in Tempe
Related Tempe pages, then our general gas guides:
Gas Appliance Going In Somewhere New in Tempe? Call American Discount Plumbing
Tell us where the appliance will stand and where the nearest gas valve is now. Those two points are the job. Call (602) 883-2787.
We measure from your old valve to the new spot before anyone writes a price. That is the American Discount Plumbing difference.
What Tempe Callers Can Read First
If you want a sense of how Pavel (Paul) handles a scheduled job before an inspection date is set, the reviews are a good place to start.
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