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Old 08-04-2008, 01:14 AM
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Default Re: Gas lines in the attic in lightning-prone areas

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Originally Posted by gfmucci
Yes, you could. But the question remains, are there 220 volt electric outlets to where the gas appliances used to be? In our house there is a 220 for the dryer in our gas-equipped house. There is no 220 for the gas hot water heater. I don't know if there is a 220 for the stove. The big expense would be to retrofit the AC/Heat unit to all electric. I'd guess $3,000 to $4,000 with the required change of hardware and adding a 220 line.
Running a 220 line shouldn't run over a hundred dollars. We just redid our kitchen in Ohio and had a lot of electrical work done, undercounter lights, moving major appliances and moving switches. A nice new electric stove would be around seven hundred dollars and a decent new dryer would be five. What have I forgotten. Oh, the heat pump. BUT I think that is what I would do. Just change to electric. It is a real crap shoot. As my sainted mother would say, if you're born to hang, you won't drown.

I do feel bad and realize that I too would change out. Our house is new too. What a disappointment. But it is a fixable thing, not like some troubles we have to face that we can't fix for sure.
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