I had a kitchen conversion two years ago. This was an all electric kitchen but I just prefer to cook with gas.

The stove/oven was about $100 more and I spent around $250 converting to a gas line. I had a gas line installed from the basment up to the kitchen. I know that I thought it would be less than $250 but now I am so glad that I did it.

It is hard to part with lots of money for a renovation but it will be worth, in the end, for your happiness at using gas. I spent around $6000 for my quartz countertops but I had an incredible amount of counter space plus an island. I really gulped when I found out the amount but I just love my counterops and it is so easy to keep them clean and I just use Formula 409.

So, go for it! I love cooking with gas and having the control.

Robyn

I haven't yet, but we'll be converting to gas as soon as our current stove dies. I'm rooting for a quick demise. ;)

Wow, $250 sounds cheap. I was expecting it to be significantly more. Since you are going from the basement it was probably quite easy. Not so sure if going from my attic where the furnace is or from outside if that is possible would be so cheap.

Who did the work? What type of contractor to call?

I added a gas cooktop when I remodeled. I had no gas line running to the house, that cost $1000 and was done by the gas company. Then I had to have the line run into and across the house to the kitchen, that was probably another $1000 (not sure, since it was included in the overall cost).

Plumbers do the work in the house, and the local jurisdiction does an inspection. Since you already have gas in the house, it should be a lot less expensive.

It was worth every dollar, I'd do it again. I've had electric ranges for 30+ years and hated them.

They also plumbed so I can add a gas water heater and gas fireplace inserts in the future.

We converted last year. We had gas line already to the house and specifically to the kitchen, for the fireplace, so the cost was minimal. The plumber does the work and as was said you have an inspection. We have the Caldera 36" gas cooktop, a great price and an fantastic appliance. Only $850 and you get the huge center 18K burner. Hope you are able to convert. It is definitely worth it as others have said. c

We converted to gas when we re-did the kitchen. In our case, we had to have the gas line run a bit over 1/2 mile, so our costs were not typical. That said, every penny we spent was worth it. It's been almost three years now and I still marvel at how much I love cooking on gas.

Where we live, the cost to convert is based on how many appliances you are changing from electric to gas (the bigger gas user the appliance, the less the gas company charges).

Good luck!

We already had gas in the kitchen for the water heater (which in the remodel we moved to the garage), so moving the gas line to where we wanted our stove wasn't a big cost. But I agree with Momj47 - It was worth every dollar, I'd do it again, and would've paid almost anything to go back to gas cooking. For the eight years that we had an electric stove, I hated it. We also extended the line so that we could tap into it from the backyard for our barbecue - no more filling a propane tank!

do you currently have a gas line in your house? we were looking to purchase a home a few months back before committing to our build and we saw one house but it was all electric. the entire neighborhood was electric (talk about archaic!) ...we called the gas co. and it would have cost us an additional $20K to run a gas line to the house. fyi: i vetoed this purchase not because of the gas line, but because it was ugly.

We didn't convert to gas, but we switched the gas cooktop and refrigerator locations. We had to have a plumbing company come in and reroute the gas line. We'd put it off for years because we were told it was going to be very expensive (we have adobe walls, wood ceilings and brick floors with radiant heat). Rolled into the total gut and remodel of this kitchen, it turned out to be less expensive than we'd thought. I think it came out to about $1400.

I just converted to gas (propane) and it's a relatively easy fix for your plumber, as other's have said. Check to see if you need to move your 220 plug, as well. When I converted to gas I moved the range 6 inches and I had to move the plug as well, because my Dacor had a very short elec. cord.

We don't have natural gas available to us, so brought in a propane tank. Our HVAC contractor did the gas piping, not the plumbers in our case.

There's no gas in our neighborhood, but as rhome said, propane tanks work just as well.

My house was converted to all electric around 1980, way before I bought it. I called the gas company after I bought it and was told they charge $2000 to put in a meter and run a gas line 20 feet. I pointed out there was a gas line, it was just capped off. They said then it would only be $1500 to "set up service". I decided I have better things to spend my money on right now, but maybe some day.
Carla in Sacramento

We're torn between that or going with an induction cooktop. One of many decisions that make me glad this remodel is still a long way off.

When we were going through the planning phase, I was set to bring gas into my kitchen (have it elsewhere in house) and use a gas cooktop. Through research (especially GW!), I found that an induction cooktop would eliminate all the negatives I had with electric and give me the benefits of gas. While I didn't make the induction decision based on not paying for the gas line, it worked out great!

We replaced electric with gas in our last remodel and it wasn't too expensive. We had a gas line already to the house and an easy access basement. If your kitchen is on a slab, it'll be a bit more I suspect!

If you can't do gas, induction is far better than standard electric. (I'll be converting from induction to gas if I ever get my current kitchen's remodel started, but induction has a lot going for it.)

I echo most of those who found conversion easy. I, too, had a gas line to the house; it had been stubbed in our storeroom just below our electric cooktop on our island. It was a piece of cake to run the line up to a new gas cooktop.

That said, here's the down side: We were forced into getting a downdraft gas cooktop, because there's a huge skylight above the island and no possibility of venting out the roof. The original downdraft worked great with an electric cooktop. With a gas cooktop, the downdraft just sucked the flames away from the pots and pans and nothing ever got cooked! I stopped using venting right away and haven't for about 15 years, with the consequent issues of smells and grease in the air. In our remodel, our new rangetop will be positioned on an outside wall, perfect for venting.

So, if you're contemplating conversion to gas, also contemplate how you will vent. Downdraft just doesn't work with gas in my experience.

We had to run a gas line to a propane tank (no county gas here). DH ran the gas line himself (we are sailors and he had done the propane on the boat) with full building permit and attendant inspections. Plumber quoted us at $100 an hour. We declined. DH ran the gas line along the outside of hte garage walls (inside the walls just got too complicated). Maybe 8 hours of work all told, including finishing the cooktop side and the tank side.

Gas company inspected as well when they came to hook up the tank. I am SO happy! (and was doubly pleased when we lost power for a day and could still cook . . .)

Go for it!