Would you buy a house without gas?

[Anonymous]

My mom loves her all electric house because she obsessed over gas explosions. However, she seems to be funding the electrician’s kids orthodontia and college tuition accounts. He is always there. Constant rewriting. And I hate cooking on her stove.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I get headaches from it. So I am not a fan. We still have it for our furnace, but removed it from the kitchen and life is so much better.

[Anonymous]

I like oil heat, there I said it. I have gas in new house always cold and dry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never buy a house with gas. We specifically looked for all electric and found one, if we had found a house that was only gas we would not have bought it, or we would have converted to electric only. I don't understand what's so great about a gas stove. Yes, our electric bills are quite high but I think part of that is cathedral ceilings and an old heat pump.

Well that would certainly limit your options in the DC area.

Of all the OCD hangups.. why on earth would you demand "NO GAS?" Is it because of the aliens? Irrational fear of your house blowing up? There's really no downside to having gas that I can think of. All energy-using devices are much cheaper to operate, it's better for the environment, and you get a lot more BTUs locally so your water heater will recover faster, house heat up faster, and so on.

As far as cooking, if you don't know what's so great about a gas stove then I assume you've never used one or just think of cooking as something you have to do once in a while. I didn't have one in our prior house for a few years. It was miserable. I got used to it after a while, but when I finally moved back to a house with a gas stove, it was like a great burden had been lifted off my back.

Again - if you aren't much of a cook, or the microwave oven is your go-to kitchen appliance, then I get that; personally, I would never do it again.

[Anonymous]

We did once. Never again. I need a gas stove. The hassle of getting a gas line to the house was a nightmare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd be more likely not to buy an all electric house.

I don't like electric heat. It dries out the house. I like radiator heat and they have gas furnaces.

I also vastly prefer a gas cooktop (electric oven, however, is ideal).

I also like having gas in case the power goes off. Imagine a winter storm taking down the lines and there's no heat in your house! Power outages from snowstorms happened to us a few times when I was a kid but we still had heat and a gas stove so it was completely fine.

We don't have gas so we installed a propane tank for cooking. Our range can convert to gas as well. When we've had power outs, we can still cook.

[Anonymous]

Nobody who can actually cook would ever get an electric stove. It’s always completely ridiculous when dumb realtors claim that there’s a “gourmet kitchen” but there’s an electric stove... sigh.

[Anonymous]

Boiler is best. Can be gas or oil but radiators provide the best and most comfortable heat. If we didn't have gas we'd get LP, no need to panic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody who can actually cook would ever get an electric stove. It’s always completely ridiculous when dumb realtors claim that there’s a “gourmet kitchen” but there’s an electric stove... sigh.

And you are wrong. My mother was a cooking instructor for many years. They moved into a neighborhood that did not have gas lines and there was no way to run a line into the neighborhood. Otherwise a very nice home and neighborhood. She still survived with an electric stove.

I've also knew one couple where the guy taught for a while at a cooking school and later worked part-time with a catering company. Because it was the right house in the right school district for his kids, they moved into a house with an electric stove. Again, very costly to put a gas line into the house. He waited until the kids graduated from school and then they moved to another house in a part of town with weaker schools and he got his gas stove.

I'm a good cook and my first home (which I had for 13 years) had electric. Not my favorite, but when I was young and single, this was the area and neighborhood I could afford to buy a house in on one income. I would rather have an electric stove than keep renting, so I bought it. I later married and we lived for another few years in that home. When we sold, we had enough profit from that house to put a good down payment on our now forever-home--which has gas.

Gas is a huge plus, but not a deal-breaker for me.

[Anonymous]

Before we go much further on all-gas vs no-gas, there is an in-between. It is very common for homes without a gas line nearby to have bottled gas for cooking and sometimes for a fireplace. Think of a large tank, buried underground, filled with gas to power your gas range. Not unlike a propane tank, but of course bigger. So if you like the rest of the house and there is a place for it, a bottled gas solution might help you.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely no chance we would buy a house without gas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never buy a house with gas. We specifically looked for all electric and found one, if we had found a house that was only gas we would not have bought it, or we would have converted to electric only. I don't understand what's so great about a gas stove. Yes, our electric bills are quite high but I think part of that is cathedral ceilings and an old heat pump.

Well that would certainly limit your options in the DC area.

Of all the OCD hangups.. why on earth would you demand "NO GAS?" Is it because of the aliens? Irrational fear of your house blowing up? There's really no downside to having gas that I can think of. All energy-using devices are much cheaper to operate, it's better for the environment, and you get a lot more BTUs locally so your water heater will recover faster, house heat up faster, and so on.

As far as cooking, if you don't know what's so great about a gas stove then I assume you've never used one or just think of cooking as something you have to do once in a while. I didn't have one in our prior house for a few years. It was miserable. I got used to it after a while, but when I finally moved back to a house with a gas stove, it was like a great burden had been lifted off my back.

Again - if you aren't much of a cook, or the microwave oven is your go-to kitchen appliance, then I get that; personally, I would never do it again.

Yiu forgot chem trails, LOL!

The only person I know with a gas fear has major anxiety issues. Along with that she is "gluten free", thinks deodorant and cell phone give you cancer, and has to take xanax to function.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I'd actually feel safer. We have electric now and I don't see what the problem is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never buy a house with gas. We specifically looked for all electric and found one, if we had found a house that was only gas we would not have bought it, or we would have converted to electric only. I don't understand what's so great about a gas stove. Yes, our electric bills are quite high but I think part of that is cathedral ceilings and an old heat pump.

Well that would certainly limit your options in the DC area.

Of all the OCD hangups.. why on earth would you demand "NO GAS?" Is it because of the aliens? Irrational fear of your house blowing up? There's really no downside to having gas that I can think of. All energy-using devices are much cheaper to operate, it's better for the environment, and you get a lot more BTUs locally so your water heater will recover faster, house heat up faster, and so on.

As far as cooking, if you don't know what's so great about a gas stove then I assume you've never used one or just think of cooking as something you have to do once in a while. I didn't have one in our prior house for a few years. It was miserable. I got used to it after a while, but when I finally moved back to a house with a gas stove, it was like a great burden had been lifted off my back.

Again - if you aren't much of a cook, or the microwave oven is your go-to kitchen appliance, then I get that; personally, I would never do it again.

Yiu forgot chem trails, LOL!

The only person I know with a gas fear has major anxiety issues. Along with that she is "gluten free", thinks deodorant and cell phone give you cancer, and has to take xanax to function.

Um... I don't think it's been conclusively decided that cell phones are totally safe. And I ain't no tin foil hat fool.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-studies-link-cell-phone-radiation-with-cancer/

Also, you sound like a dick, making fun of someone for having an anxiety disorder.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marijkevroomendurning/2013/08/20/carbon-monoxide-a-silent-killer-are-you-safe/#5c995b265603
thousands of people are sickened by gas and 500 die each year in the US because of it.

[Anonymous]

Our house is all electric but we prior owners installed a propane tank next to the kitchen so we have a gas stove.