Can you switch a gas home to an electric one?
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 at
5:41 pm
I am looking a homes to buy, but I want an all electric home, with electric heat, air, stove, ect. Most of the homes in my area run on gas. Is it possible to convert a most gas home into a home run by electric? If it is possible, what is the process and how much do you think the cost would be?
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It is far easier and cheaper to convert a gas home to electric, than an electric home to gas.
Consider the major applicances you will need to switch, most which can be done without major contracting and investment:
Stove: Electric stove will cost you about $300-800 depending on the model you choose. If you do not have 230/240v power in the kitchen, it will cost you about $600 to have a liscenced contractor run this wire.
Water Heater: Cost of a new water heater will be $200-600 depending on model and capacity. Lower cost models will run on 120V, probably no need to rewire, or at most, $200 to run a 120/230v line in your garage or where the heater is.
Furnace: This is the biggie……….converting to electric from gas will probably run you $1000-2000 because of the complexity involved with where a furnace is, how much is involved.
Hope you will leave the fireplace as gas……..electric ones dont look good!
it’d be very costly. you would have to change gas appliances to electric appliances (like the stove and the water heater and the furnace) and you may need to run new power lines to the new electric appliances.
Yes electric is a better choice!
Why would you want to? Gas systems are much cheaper to operate than electric; they’re also more environmentally friendly. Plus, an electric stove is useless when the power goes out!
You will save A LOT of money on energy costs if you leave the gas system. Electricity is highly impractical for powering any large appliance.
I think it would be easier and much cheaper to find another house to fall in love with that already has what you want. It would be terribly expensive to change from gas to electric. All new equipment plus throwing away or giving away perfectly good equipment. Unless too, you could adjust and get used to a gas home. A lot of people do adjust and end up liking it.
Yes you can. If you will want to make sure you have 200 amp service coming into the home. You will also need a circuit breaker box big enough to add at least 6-10 slots. A bigger or second box can be added for more cost. To convert you stove, water heater, and dryer to electric 220 outlets will have to be wired to their locations, this will be the least cost conversion, but depending on cost of electrician and length of wire run hard to determine cost.
The easiest way to convert your heat would be to go to a ground source heat pump or air to air heat pump. This would utilize the homes current ductwork, the air to air is cheaper that ground source, but the air to air doesn’t work well when the temp gets below a certain temp.
I currently have a groundsource heat pump and like it very well, but I kept my gas stove and dryer. I did convert my hot water heater to electric so that I didn’t have to worry about venting and could remove the chimney. I put a 4 ton ground source unit in 4 yrs ago with new ductwork in NE MO for $10000.
yes you can but it gets more expensive to heat with electricity.