Home Safety
Protect Your Family & Home
Proactive home safety for LA & Orange County homes — gas leak response, CO awareness, earthquake shutoff valves, wildfire-smoke air quality, leak protection, and the honest maintenance guidance that keeps small problems from becoming disasters.
Smell gas? CO alarm sounding? Leave the house first.
Get everyone to fresh air, then call 911 — and for a gas odor, SoCalGas's 24-hour emergency line — from outside. Call Power Pro after you're safe: (833) 212-2124 . For the first-minutes playbook, see Emergency Help: What To Do First .
What To Do If You Smell Gas in Your Home
If you smell gas — that rotten-egg odor added to natural gas so you can detect it — get everyone out of the house first. Don't flip switches, don't unplug anything, don't start the car in an attached garage. Call your gas utility's 24-hour emergency line or 911 from outside, and only after the utility clears the home does repair work begin.
Read the guideCO & Smoke Detectors: The Only Warning You Get
Carbon monoxide is invisible, odorless, and produced by the same appliances that keep your home comfortable — the furnace, the water heater, the range. A working CO alarm is the only warning your family gets, and California law requires them in homes with any gas appliance or attached garage. Here's where they belong, how to test them, and when the detector itself is the thing that's expired.
Read the guideEarthquake Prep: Gas Shutoff Valves & Water Heater Strapping
The most preventable earthquake damage isn't the shaking — it's the gas-fed fire and the toppled water heater afterward. A seismic shutoff valve closes your gas line automatically when significant shaking hits, and California has required water heaters to be strapped since the 1990s for the same reason. Both are modest, one-visit upgrades in a region where the question is when, not if.
Read the guideWildfire Smoke: Keeping the Air Inside Actually Clean
Every SoCal fire season the advice is the same: stay indoors with the windows shut. But 'indoors' is only cleaner than outside if your home and HVAC are set up for it — smoke particles are small enough to slip through gaps and straight through builder-grade filters. The good news: the fixes are ordinary HVAC work, not exotic equipment.
Read the guideWhole-Home Leak Protection: Shut the Leak Off Before It Shuts You Down
Water damage is among the most common — and most preventable — homeowner insurance claims. A whole-home leak protection system monitors the water flowing through your main line around the clock and closes the valve automatically the moment flow doesn't match normal use: a burst washing machine hose at 2 AM, a failed water heater, a pinhole that never stops. For SoCal's slab-on-grade homes, where leaks hide under concrete, it's the difference between an alert and an excavation.
Read the guideSlab Leak Warning Signs Every SoCal Homeowner Should Know
A slab leak is a pressurized water line failing beneath your concrete foundation — and because you can't see it, it announces itself sideways: a warm patch of floor, a water meter that moves with every fixture off, a bill that crept up for no reason, the faint sound of running water in a quiet house. Caught early, it's a targeted repair. Ignored, it's flooring, foundation, and mold.
Read the guideThe T&P Valve: Your Water Heater's Most Important Part
Every tank water heater has a temperature and pressure (T&P) relief valve — a spring-loaded safety that opens automatically if the tank's temperature or pressure ever runs away. It's the part that stands between a failed thermostat and a catastrophic tank failure. It needs three things: to exist, to work, and to never, ever be capped.
Read the guideCracked Heat Exchangers: The Furnace Problem That Matters Most
Inside your furnace, the heat exchanger is the sealed metal barrier between the burner's combustion gases and the air blowing into your rooms. Your air is heated by passing over that barrier — never through the flame. When the exchanger cracks from decades of heating-cooling cycles, combustion byproducts including carbon monoxide can mix into your home's air supply. It's the single failure that turns a comfort appliance into a health hazard, and it's why furnace inspections exist.
Read the guideWhy Gas Work Is Never a DIY Job
Plenty of home plumbing is honest DIY territory — a trap swap, a supply line, a running toilet. Gas is not on that list, and it's worth understanding why: a water mistake costs you a towel; a gas mistake is invisible, odorless in its consequences (CO), or explosive. California requires gas work to be licensed and permitted not as bureaucracy, but because the failure modes don't give second chances.
Read the guideHow Power Pro Protects Your Home
Most of what keeps a home safe never shows up in a photo: the permit that got pulled, the pressure test that got witnessed, the combustion reading that came back clean, the T&P valve that got tested while the tech was already there. This page is the honest tour of how that work happens — so you know what to expect from us, and what to demand from anyone.
Read the guideAlready in the emergency?
These guides are for before. If something is happening right now — gas smell, burst pipe, sewage backup, CO alarm — the emergency page covers the first minutes, step by step.
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