If you smell gas in a Rex home, leave immediately and call 911 and Atlanta Gas Light at 877.427.4321 from outside; marketers do not handle leaks. New lines, repairs past the meter and pressure tests are plumber work, so call the number on this page to be connected with a local plumber in Rex.
Who handles gas in Rex?
Rex is an unincorporated community in eastern Clayton County, centered on the historic Rex Mill and Rex Village. Clayton County tells residents to choose a state-certified gas marketer, which is how the Atlanta Gas Light system works, and no Clayton County city appears on the Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia coverage map. So AGL owns the pipes and meters, and AGL is who you call about a leak. The marketer only bills you.
Where do permits come from in an unincorporated area?
From the county. With no city government, Rex homes fall under Clayton County Community Development's building permit section in Jonesboro, which issues plumbing permits for repairs, remodels and new construction. A plumber adding a range line, connecting a new water heater or fixing a leak in the house piping will pull the county permit, pressure test the work and schedule the inspection.
What gas piping is common in Rex homes?
Census survey data put the median build year in Rex at 1995, with about 20% of homes built before 1980. Most houses are subdivisions from the 1990s and 2000s, which may have black iron mains, flexible stainless tubing or a mix. Flexible tubing needs a bonding wire to the electrical grounding. The usual jobs are new appliance branches, replacing aging connectors, adding shutoff valves where they are missing, and repairing leaks the utility found on the house side of the meter.
A Rex note
When you call the number on this page, an independent plumber who works in Clayton County will ask what appliance is involved and whether AGL locked the meter. If it did, the plumber repairs and tests your side, then AGL restores service.
If you are planning a new appliance, it helps to know which gas appliances are already in the house and roughly how far the new one will be from the meter. Longer runs and several appliances sharing one branch are the main reasons a line needs to be upsized. Before any yard work near the gas meter or a buried line, call Georgia 811 so utility lines are marked first.
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