Comments on: Can you switch a gas home to an electric one?

By: home and garden

home and garden — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:17:16 +0000

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By: martim b

martim b — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:07:13 +0000

yes you can but it gets more expensive to heat with electricity.

By: Rhett H

Rhett H — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:43:32 +0000

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.

By: Barbara S

Barbara S — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:53:37 +0000

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.

By: mrs_squier81906

mrs_squier81906 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:07:50 +0000

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.

By: latinatexas

latinatexas — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:28 +0000

Yes electric is a better choice!

By: Eva

Eva — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:17:57 +0000

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.