Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jul 24, 2015 8:55 pm I am currently building a house with Lucas Homes NSW and found out that there is no natural gas on my land so I was told that if I want to upgrade my 900mm gas stove to electrical it will cost me $440 for the actual stove upgrade plus $660 for safety electrical switch. Are these prices reasonable? Is it better to leave it to a gas stove and use LPG bottled gas? Thanks a lot to your reply! Re: Is the builder's upgrade cost reasonable? 2Jul 25, 2015 7:24 am I would go electric and pay the extra as getting bottle gas over the life of the house it going to cost far in excess of the $1000 paid to go electric. Plus running out of gas cooking dinner will be no fun. Re: Is the builder's upgrade cost reasonable? 3Jul 25, 2015 12:20 pm fhb_08 I am currently building a house with Lucas Homes NSW and found out that there is no natural gas on my land so I was told that if I want to upgrade my 900mm gas stove to electrical it will cost me $440 for the actual stove upgrade plus $660 for safety electrical switch. Are these prices reasonable? Is it better to leave it to a gas stove and use LPG bottled gas? Thanks a lot to your reply! Depends on your preference, we've always chosen the LPG system over electric. If you get a dual bottle system with switch, it's pretty seamless. We only have the stove on it and replace 1 bottle a year on average. Re: Is the builder's upgrade cost reasonable? 4Jul 26, 2015 8:27 am Gas offer a better cooking experience, I would stick to gas Re: Is the builder's upgrade cost reasonable? 6Jul 26, 2015 9:23 pm nav12c fhb_08 I am currently building a house with Lucas Homes NSW and found out that there is no natural gas on my land so I was told that if I want to upgrade my 900mm gas stove to electrical it will cost me $440 for the actual stove upgrade plus $660 for safety electrical switch. Are these prices reasonable? Is it better to leave it to a gas stove and use LPG bottled gas? Thanks a lot to your reply! Depends on your preference, we've always chosen the LPG system over electric. If you get a dual bottle system with switch, it's pretty seamless. We only have the stove on it and replace 1 bottle a year on average. Thanks for your reply. How much do pay on average? Is your LPG bottle is 2 x 45kg bottles? Re: Is the builder's upgrade cost reasonable? 7Jul 26, 2015 9:28 pm goody59 I would go electric and pay the extra as getting bottle gas over the life of the house it going to cost far in excess of the $1000 paid to go electric. Plus running out of gas cooking dinner will be no fun. You have a point but cooking using electricity comes with high running costs. Re: Is the builder's upgrade cost reasonable? 9Jul 27, 2015 8:01 am fhb_08 goody59 I would go electric and pay the extra as getting bottle gas over the life of the house it going to cost far in excess of the $1000 paid to go electric. Plus running out of gas cooking dinner will be no fun. You have a point but cooking using electricity comes with high running costs. You will probably find that cooking with bottled gas doesn't come cheap Town gas used to be a lot cheaper than electricity before the recent rises. . . not really anymore (Bottled gas has always been much more expensive than town gas) Check prices with your local supplier (a 45kg bottle of gas holds the equivalent of 611KWhours currently $114 +GST in my area) You would need to add rental for 2 bottles at around $40 each/year Also check how much will the bottle installation will cost. The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Is the builder's upgrade cost reasonable? 10Jul 27, 2015 9:17 am fhb_08 $440 for the actual stove upgrade plus $660 for safety electrical switch. Are these prices reasonable? Is it better to leave it to a gas stove and use LPG bottled gas? $660 seems awfully expensive to put in a an extra circuit when there will generally always been the oven on a separate circuit in the first place. I know instead of using 2.5mm cable, they'll be using 4mm cable (which they should use anyway because who knows what over upgrade might go in there in years to come). Using bottle LPG there are options that you might find handy in the future. The large gas bottles you see outside of a house you pay an annual rental on, but if all you are using is a gas stove with them, you may want to consider using 2 x 9kg bottles, that you pay no rental on. In fact I recommend that you start off this way from the get go... see how long a bottle lasts you for, as it could be a big saving over renting the bigger bottles. Of course you might use a lot of gas, so the bigger bottles even with the rental charges might be more convenient. For us, 2 x 9kg bottles does us fine, and no rent to pay on them. Not that we've used the stove much since we moved in, but still haven't needed to refill them since March, and haven't touched the second bottle yet. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Is the builder's upgrade cost reasonable? 11Jul 27, 2015 7:50 pm I would go gas, atleast you can still cook if there is a blackout. Is there just no gas because they haven't gotten around to doing the work yet but there are plans to do so? Just ask as we were going to have no mains gas but 12mths on they have finally goten around to making the service available. Just someghing to ask. Also don't forget your cooker will have to be the LPG version if you go down that track. Seems good to me. 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