Gas Fireplace Repair in Crooks and Renner, South Dakota

Gas fireplace repair in Crooks and Renner uses the same typical prices as Sioux Falls: a diagnostic service call $150 to $300, annual service $175 to $350 per fireplace, common part repairs $200 to $600 installed, and a gas valve $500 to $1,000. The one thing that is genuinely different here is the gas company. Crooks and Renner are on Crooks Municipal Gas, a city-owned utility, not on MidAmerican Energy like Sioux Falls and the other towns around it. If you smell gas, that changes who you call.

Two communities north of the city

Crooks is a city in Minnehaha County and a suburb of Sioux Falls, about 9 straight-line miles north-northwest of the middle of the city. It was called New Hope until 1904, when it took the name of W. A. Crooks, a local politician. The 2020 census counted 1,362 people.

Renner is an unincorporated community in Minnehaha County, just north of Sioux Falls on South Dakota Highway 115 in the valley of the Big Sioux River. It has its own ZIP code, 57055, but the Census Bureau counts its people inside Mapleton Township, which had 2,099 residents in 2020. Charles Lindbergh stopped in Renner on August 27, 1927, a few months after his Atlantic flight.

Crooks Municipal Gas

Crooks Municipal Gas began building its pipeline in 1997 and, by its own safety literature, now serves more than 750 customers in Crooks, Renner and rural Sioux Falls, all in Minnehaha County. The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission’s town list gives Crooks Municipal Gas as the natural gas provider for both Crooks and Renner, and MidAmerican’s own list of South Dakota gas communities does not include either one.

What that means for you:

Crooks Municipal Gas’s leak sheet lists the warning signs as a blowing or hissing sound, dust blowing from a hole in the ground, continuous bubbling in wet areas, a gas odor, dead or discolored vegetation, and flames. For what to do inside the house, see smell of gas near the fireplace.

The houses and their fireplaces

Most of Crooks’ homes were built after 1970. The American Community Survey puts about 29% of them in the 1970s and about 43% between 1990 and 2009, with about 13% older than 1970. About 85% of occupied homes heat with utility gas, the highest share of any town we cover. A house from the 1970s may have a masonry fireplace with a gas log set or an insert; the 1990s and 2000s houses more often came with a factory direct-vent unit. See gas log repair and pilot light and ignition repair.

Rural addresses beyond the gas mains may burn propane instead. Propane fireplaces use propane orifices, pilots and valves, so tell us the fuel when you book. If a propane pilot goes out after the tank runs low, Napoleon’s troubleshooting table lists “Out of propane gas” among the causes, with the fix “Fill the tank.”

Before you call

Check the switch or remote, the batteries, and the gas valve to the fireplace. On a standing pilot unit, wait for the thermocouple to cool before relighting: Napoleon says about 60 seconds. Then tell us what it did. The pricing page has every common repair.