Gas work is the part of plumbing where being careful matters most and shortcuts show up worst. Texas Plumber Connection installs, repairs, extends and pressure-tests gas lines across Porter, New Caney, Spring, Conroe, The Woodlands and the surrounding area — for ranges, water heaters, dryers, pool heaters, outdoor kitchens, fire pits and standby generators.
There's no service fee to come out and look at what you need.
If you smell gas right now
Leave the house. Don't switch lights, appliances or anything electrical on or off, and don't use the phone inside. Once you're outside, call the gas utility, and call us at (832) 885-9820. A rotten-egg smell is the odorant added specifically so leaks are noticeable — treat it as real every time.
Other signs worth a call: a hissing sound near a line or appliance, a burner flame that's yellow or orange rather than blue, dead vegetation in a patch above a buried line, or unexplained headaches and nausea indoors.
What we do
New appliance connections. Running a line to a range, dryer, water heater or outdoor grill, sized correctly for the appliance's demand and with a proper shut-off at the connection.
Generator hookups. Standby generators became a lot more common around here after the storms and the 2021 freeze, and they draw hard when they run. The gas supply has to be sized for that load on top of everything else in the house — an undersized line is the reason some generators start and then stall.
Pool heaters and outdoor kitchens. Long runs to detached locations, correctly sized and properly protected where they leave the structure.
Leak detection and repair. Locating the leak, isolating it, repairing or replacing the section, and pressure testing before anything is put back into service.
Pressure tests. Required for permitted work, and worth doing on an older system you've just inherited with a house.
Why sizing is the whole job
Most gas problems we're called to aren't leaks — they're supply. Every appliance has a BTU demand, and the pipe feeding it has to deliver that volume at adequate pressure with everything else running simultaneously. A half-inch line that comfortably fed a range and a tank water heater will not necessarily support that range, a tankless heater and a generator.
The symptom isn't dramatic. It's a tankless unit that can't hold temperature in winter, a furnace that short-cycles, a generator that stumbles under load. We calculate the load and size the line for it rather than matching whatever's already there.
This comes up constantly on tankless conversions, which is why we check gas capacity before quoting one rather than discovering the problem halfway through the install.
Permits and inspection
Gas work is permitted and inspected work, and that's a good thing — it's the check that someone independent looked at it. Which authority depends on where you are: Montgomery County covers unincorporated Porter and New Caney, while Conroe, Humble, Tomball and Oak Ridge North each permit through the city. The Woodlands, being a township rather than an incorporated city, permits through Montgomery County as well.
We pull the permit and meet the inspector. Anyone offering to skip that step on gas work is telling you something useful about how they work.
Our process
- Establish the load — what's connected now, what you're adding, and what runs at the same time.
- Check the existing system: meter capacity, line sizes, material and condition.
- Quote the work including permitting, so the price is the price.
- Install or repair, using appropriate materials for each run and location.
- Pressure test and have it inspected before anything is placed back in service.
Serving Porter and the surrounding area
Porter, New Caney, Spring, The Woodlands, Conroe, Oak Ridge North, Cut and Shoot, Humble, Atascocita and Tomball. Estimates Monday through Saturday, 8am to 8pm, financing available through Synchrony, and no service fee.
Call (832) 885-9820 to get it looked at properly.