cost for changing from elec to gas cooktop
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Delonghi gas +elec wall oven
Comments (11)We are getting one soon, hopefully, if our kitchen remodeling moves along a bit better, LOL. For me, it had all that I wanted. I've heard good and bad reviews, but not a whole lot of either. I mainly chose the Delonghi double wall oven because it is the ONLY 24" gas double wall oven on the market right now. I also liked the idea of having the smaller electric oven for casserols, cookies, pies, etc. and a bigger gas oven, but still have lots of storage space above and below. It seems to fit all my needs except the inside width which won't allow my big cookie sheet. The only other option for a 24" gas wall oven that doesn't look plasticy is the Blue Star wall ovens which you can stack for a double wall oven. They however aren't available until fall and cost quite a bit more than my budget allows. They are also supposed to be bigger than the Delonghi on the inside. The Delonghi wall ovens just went up in price. I think the stainless double is now $1999. But there are some black versions that you can still get for $1699. I asked eurochef (Delonghi's importers) and they said the reason for the increase is more importing charges, product is the same....See Moreinduction use cost v. gas cooktop
Comments (5)Cooking is only about 6% of a home's energy budget--unless you run a home catering business or other full time kitchen job. The big energy users are HVAC, lighting, and refrigeration. So, efforts spent to insulate the home, change over to fluorescents and buying and Energy Star refrigerator can pay for your cooking energy over a year's time. Having said that, gas cooktops aren't energy efficient at actually transferring heat to the pot on top of them. Maybe 60-70% of the heat goes to the pan trying to be heated. A lot of heat is released up the vent---or back into the room if you don't have a vent. With electric, more of the actual heat is transferred into the cook ware than with gas, so even though electric rates are usually more expensive per actual therm of heat produced, the cost for the the two methods of cooking aren't all that different. However, induction approaches 97%-99% efficiency in transferring the available heat production into the cookware to cook your food. It's a significant energy "savings" over choosing gas. Since your home's cooking energy budget is only around 6% though, you don't see that as a big dollar savings compared to maximizing the efficiency of other energy users. And it's very difficult to "justify" the purchase of an induction cooktop over a gas one as an energy savings expenditure. The real payback timeline is too long to really see any "savings" over anything but an extremely long time period. The exact math will depend on your cost for both gas and electricity in your area and the costs of the cooktops under consideration, as well as any associated "upgrade" costs that go along with the choices....See MoreDryer: Changing from gas to electric?
Comments (37)OP, do you know how utility rates (gas v. electric) compare in your area? Gas rates USED to be cheaper in my state until gas companies were deregulated. After that, gas prices went way up, and electricity is now much cheaper! My present home is total electric. Before this I lived in other homes in which dryers were powered by gas. I can honestly tell you that my electric dryers here have always been just as gentle on clothes. In fact, some gas dryers I used when my husband was in the military were harder on clothes than my electric dryers here have been. So, IMHO, there's no automatic advantage to either one. For me, utility rates would be the main consideration. After that, the type of dryer -- I would not have one which did not have sensors to prevent over-drying. My present dryer also has cool-down in every cycle, and all laundry comes out wrinkle-free. (I know you only mentioned clothes dryers, but I did want to mention that the gentlest drying of all is air-drying.) Hope this helps....See MoreIs it hard to change a flat electric cooktop to gas?
Comments (11)We had an electric cooktop in our island replaced with gas cooktop. We already had gas service to the house for the fireplace insert and hot water heater, so it was a matter of tapping into one of those lines. It was easier to do as our house is over a crawlspace. I believe it ran us about $1800 to run the service over to the kitchen island. It'll be more expensive if your house is on a slab or a finished basement with a drywall ceiling. We had a 30" electric, so we got a 30" gas cooktop to fit into the same opening in our counter. We already had a downdraft vent, so that remained. In our area, gas appliances are considered an upgrade, so we're confident it was money well spent in terms of re-sale value. Besides that, I really like cooking with gas....See Morebrickeyee
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