Underground utilities · Lowell, AR
Sewer and gas lines repaired, replaced and laid underground
Broken sewer pipe and failing gas lines repaired or replaced, and new water, sewer and gas utility lines laid.
Chapter 01
What goes wrong below the yard
A sewer line breaks quietly. Slow drains show up in more than one room of the house, you hear gurgling when the washer runs or a toilet flushes, a sewage smell hangs around the yard or the foundation, or a wet spot appears where the grass has no business being wet. One slow sink is usually just a clog. Trouble in several fixtures at once points to the line outside.
Tree roots work their way into joints and crack older pipe, and clay soil that swells and shrinks pulls a buried line apart over the years. Gas lines fail differently: old joints loosen, and a fitting that held for decades starts to seep.
Bert Cupit left Hansen a short note about this kind of job on its own site: "These guys are the best! We had a broken sewer pipe."
Hansen crew hand-digging around a drain line beside a house, the work van parked behind
How we work underground
Hansen lays utility lines for water, sewer and gas, and repairs and remodels them too. That means we are comfortable in a trench. The same crew that diagnoses the failure digs to it with our own excavator and backhoe, repairs or replaces the pipe, and hauls the spoil off in our own dump truck.
We tell you where the break is and why before we cut into your yard. Sometimes a section repair is the honest answer. When the pipe is worn along its length, we explain that replacing the run costs you one dig instead of three. You make the call with the whole picture in front of you, whether you are in Lowell, Rogers, Bentonville or Farmington.
Chapter 03
Gas is a different kind of job
Gas line work is done to Arkansas plumbing code and tested before we call it finished. Our crews are Master Plumbers who are licensed, bonded and insured. Gas is not a weekend project, and we will say so plainly: never try to repair a gas line yourself, and don't hire anyone who treats it as casual work.
If you smell gas, leave the house first. Don't flip a switch, don't light anything, and don't stand in the kitchen looking for the source. Get everyone outside, then call us at (479) 236-1861. We take emergency calls around the clock, and a gas smell is exactly why.
Ginny Masullo, in a testimonial on Hansen's own site: "John and Cody came when they said they would. Diagnosed gas problem and fixed it within a matter of days."
After the pipe is in the ground
Once the new line is tested, the trench gets closed and the yard goes back together. If the dig crossed a lawn or ran beside a drive, we tell you how it will settle and what to watch for as the clay dries out.
Keep an eye on the old warning signs. A sewer smell coming back, drains slowing again, or a soggy patch in dry weather means the line deserves another look, and a call to us costs you nothing. Estimates are free.
Bert Cupit, on Hansen's own site: "These guys are the best! We had a broken sewer pipe."