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Originally Posted by JMintzer
Do you really believe that TV is paying an electrician the same $800 that an individual homeowner pays?
Remember, they have these people on contract, installing thousands of outlets, light fixtures, running electric lines etc, etc, etc...
It's not a cost cutting measure...
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You are correct. it is not a cost cutting measure. We just built a house in a section of The Villages that has both gas and electric. At the Design Center, we chose an electric range/oven and a gas clothes dryer.
When they built our house, in the kitchen (although they provided the electric range/oven that we selected), they also installed a gas hookup (at no additional charge to us) in case we decided to go with gas in the future, or the next homeowner wanted gas. Same with the dryer in the laundry room where an electric outlet was installed (at no additional charge to us) along with the gas hookup to accommodate the gas dryer that we selected.
For new builds where the buyer specifies their choice of appliances at the Design Center, I think it might be easier for them to install both gas and electric and then provide whichever appliance the homeowner selects. I don't know if that holds true with spec houses. Maybe someone who recently bought a spec house can confirm.