Atmos Energy determined that my house had a gas leak somewhere.
Roto Rooter has been my plumbers of choice since they added plumbing services to their services back in the 1980's. Therefore, they were who I chose to call for the gas line repair(s). Robert arrived on Tuesday morning, and immediately identified some wonky issues that Atmos had overlooked. He addressed those things, and made notes on other issues. Then ran a pressure check of his own. It _almost_ held pressure, but not well enough to pass inspection, so he checked all the connections inside the house for leaks. He found a slow one behind the stove, which happened to be adjacent to some work that had been improperly by a home remodeling contractor some years back that I had agreed he should fix. Two birds with one stone!
Sadly, however, that repair did not resolve the leak. There were apparently problems under the house in the crawl space. (my house was built around 1950) That process involves an additional technician, so we made plans for a followup visit.
Due to a big leak at an Irving school, the return was delayed until Thursday, but Robert and Jesse were there bright and early and got right to work. Jesse immediately identified at least eleven small leaks at old rusty joints under the house, as well as junctions from the original construction that were no longer connected to anything but leaking at their capped ends.
They reported their findings to me and let me know what the cost was going to be. While not cheap, from my perspective, the alternatives weren't going to be cheaper. Go forth and replace pipes!
The scope of the job got a bit larger, but they kept me updated and continued to toil away, pausing only to wipe the sweat from the brows (this was during the 100+ days in mid-July) or respond to my queries about this or that. (Which, I might add, tended to be random stuff that didn't always relate to the job at hand...)
I appreciate having someone working on my house that I trust so completely that I have no issues handing over a key to my (very small) kingdom.
Kudos to Robert for all the beautiful work on the topside and to Jesse for all the work I presume to be equally beautiful underneath (I have no desire to enter my crawlspace or my attic either one.)