Would you buy a house without gas?

[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.

You do if you get headaches from it.

[Anonymous]

Location and school system mattered to us far more than the fact that the house we found had no gas hookup. We talk sometimes about getting a line run (it does extend to the neighborhood so it's completely doable) but never seem to make it a priority.

And I'm a better than adequate cook who has no complaints. You can pry my induction cooktop out of my cold, dead hands. I love that thing and would install one in my next house even if we had gas available.

[Anonymous]

No way.

[Anonymous]

Gas cooking and heating are must haves

[Anonymous]

I can survive with an induction stove but isn't electric heating significantly more expensive than gas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Location and school system mattered to us far more than the fact that the house we found had no gas hookup. We talk sometimes about getting a line run (it does extend to the neighborhood so it's completely doable) but never seem to make it a priority.

And I'm a better than adequate cook who has no complaints. You can pry my induction cooktop out of my cold, dead hands. I love that thing and would install one in my next house even if we had gas available.

I have trouble imagining any better than adequate cook who doesn't use a cast iron skillet. And I don't know how people could use those without scratching the crap out of an induction cooktop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can survive with an induction stove but isn't electric heating significantly more expensive than gas?

Yeah and it doesn't work. Electric heat is awful, just blows around chilly air and dries it out your skin.

Maybe underfloor heating with tiled floor would be okay if you had to use electric heat, but that's ideally more of a supplement really.

[Anonymous]

No I would not. I grew up in an all electric house and I had no issues with it except that I would miss my gas stove too too much.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not. My DH owns a restaurant and though hes not home that often, when he is he cooks and absolutely loathes an electric stove. He doesnt wven like renting a beach rental with electric.

We did buy a house with electric, but remodeled the kitchen before we even moved in. We pulled gas (the house had gas heat) to the kitchen for our cooktop and our broiler (we have a separate infrared gas broiler drawer).

Luckily in the DC area most homes have gas. Plus electric heat is AWFUL. Really should only be a supplement.

[Anonymous]

Nope, heat pumps are useless once the temperature gets below 25 degrees or so.

[Anonymous]

We almost bought an all electric house with no hope of changing to gas because there were no gas lines coming to the neighborhood at all. So glad that we passed that house up. I live my gas range and oven.

[Anonymous]

We did, but it’s a summer house so we aren’t heating at full temps in the winter. Even at 50 degrees it’s insanely expensive. We have gas on the street and are exploring converting to gas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Location and school system mattered to us far more than the fact that the house we found had no gas hookup. We talk sometimes about getting a line run (it does extend to the neighborhood so it's completely doable) but never seem to make it a priority.

And I'm a better than adequate cook who has no complaints. You can pry my induction cooktop out of my cold, dead hands. I love that thing and would install one in my next house even if we had gas available.

I have trouble imagining any better than adequate cook who doesn't use a cast iron skillet. And I don't know how people could use those without scratching the crap out of an induction cooktop.

Sorry for your lack of imagination. I've never used a cast iron skillet in my life and I'm ok with that. You do you; the people eating my cooking have never complained about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I had to replace boiler in the winter, the heating guy pitched electric (looking back, I think it was because he wouldn't have to kneel on the basement floor to install it). I tried to find info to compare electric vs gas rates for the boiler and could not get good answer from anyone (now I know it would have basically come down to btu's). The electric boiler was cheaper up front but turned out to be very expensive heat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The per BTU cost of gas heat is lower.

Geothermal electric heatpump (which we have) per BTU is lower than gas. We have gas but only for the fireplace.