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Does anyone have any experience with this? I love to cook and much prefer gas cook tops to electric but the majority of houses we are seeing in our house hunting have the latter. They do seem to have a gas water heater listed however, which I'm assuming means there is some sort of gas line going to the home. Is it difficult/possible to utilize the existing gas line to install a gas stove and if it is possible, does anyone have ideas on how expensive it is or if a line to a water heater has enough gas to handle a stove as well?
Every situation is different, I'd call a plumber and get an estimate. it's mainly a labor charge, the pipe is cheap.
I had an all electric house and recently had the GasCo install a meter so I could put in a new gas furnace. At the same time I had them put in gas lines to the stove, W/H, and dryer. The charge to install the extra lines was very small, however it would have been a lot more had they not been doing the rest of the work.
Now I have gas available to those locations so if I ever change those appliances, I will switch to gas.
By the way, the latest trick thing for kitchen stoves is a combo gas/electric range. Talk to your dealer about that. Some things are better with gas, some with electric, so new stoves are available with the combo...! Very cool stuff..
Don't thank me, just send me a pie...!
Juliema, you are thinking along the right track. Gas lines need to be "sized" for the appliances they are going to serve. The water heater may be at the end of the run and is maxed out on the sizing, so if you add a range, it won't perform like it should.
You have to know the btu rating of the range you are thinking about, and then a plumber or heating contractor can size it correctly and run the gas line. Different trades deal with running gas lines in different parts of the country.
The good thing is you do have gas in the house, and it's probably not a huge job to run it. A crawlspace house is easier than a slab for instance.
It's a good idea. I would love to have an electric oven and broiler. But there isn't anyway I would do without a gas cooking surface. It's especially nice during storm season when we may be without power for a couple of days or longer, but I can still light the top burners with a match!!
I hear you! I would not look at an all-electric home, for that reason. I'm all about the cooking, and I'm also a control freak about having my burners set just so.
If I bought a house with both and the kitchen was electric, the first thing I would do would be to change that.
We have a JennAire combo gas cooktop, dual electric oven, with one oven being a convection oven. It is a pretty nifty combo, but the gas controls on the side make the five burners crowded. We also found that it is possible for a burner to go out and just be dispensing gas without any flame. We got a gas leak detector for the kitchen because of this.
We have a JennAire combo gas cooktop, dual electric oven, with one oven being a convection oven. It is a pretty nifty combo, but the gas controls on the side make the five burners crowded. We also found that it is possible for a burner to go out and just be dispensing gas without any flame. We got a gas leak detector for the kitchen because of this.
Don't think a thermocoupler is involved. With pilotless ignition, the sparking occurs to light the flame, but if the power is out the flame can be lit with a match. Once the flame is lit, quickly turning it all the way down (opposite direction to the off position) will sometimes extinguish it. We could set the control limiter to a slightly higher flame, but even the smallest burner tends to be a little hot for a simmer setting, so we don't want to go that route. There is an audible whooshing if the gas is coming out unlit, so we have caught the problem the few times it has occurred. Still, it is enough of a concern that I figured a gas detector was cheap insurance. It will go off long before the gas gets to explosive levels.
You may have trouble with the regulator or meter. Both would the gas co.s baby. Give them a call. If it is your stove, which I doubt, they may charge you for coming out, but this situation is dangerious.
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