converting electric to gas in my home

Posted by Ed Pawlowski on November 11, 2009, 10:00 pm

Wait a minute - we have an issue here.
She can't use a vacuum to suck out the copper because the electricity
would have to be turned off before the copper could be sucked out.
Even if she had a gas powered vacuum cleaner, she couldn't use it
until the copper was sucked out of the Romex and the gas turned on.
We have a classic Catch-22 here.
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Not hard at all. Use a long extension cord. Once filled with electric, it
will run the vacuum for a while. You can re-fill at a neighbors house if
more is needed.

Posted by terry on November 10, 2009, 1:43 am

On Nov 9, 6:33=A0am, cindypowell51_at_yahoo_dot_...@foo.com (cindy sue)
wrote:
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Gas heating.
Gas lighting.
Gas hot water heater.
Washing machine.
Gas operated refrigerator.
Gas dryer.
Gas cooking stove.
Gas water pump if on a well-water supply.
Gasoline sump pump in case of flooding.
Not sure if you can get gas operated air conditioning, if needed?
A conversion cost of say $15,000 to $25,000 should cover it?
But do careful comparison of the cost of fuel (gas) to ensure that
such a conversion is worth the initial outlay.
If the gas to be used is propane fuel cost most likely to be far too
expensive, and unlike piped in gas or wired in electrcity propane gas
fuel delivery can be a problem.
Here, where all-electric homes are the norm, and most electrcity is
generated by hydro (water) power, it would not be economic or
practical at all.
In the late 1940s just after end of WWII we lived in an all-gas
Victorian row house house in a northern UK city.
The daily lighting and maintenance of appliances was quite a chore.
The gas lights used those 'mantles' which were quite fragile and had
to be treated with care.
PS. Maybe a gas generator to power TV and radio etc.

Posted by Tony on November 11, 2009, 12:02 am

terry wrote:
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Early washing machines came electric powered or with natural gas or
gasoline engines for those without electric yet!

Posted by Lp1331 1p1331 on November 11, 2009, 1:04 am

I think they showed a gasoline washing machine in the movie "Coal
Miner's Daughter"-- Loretta Lynn's biography.
I remember my Mother telling me about them-- one brand was "Thor", and
how my grandmother wanted one.(she never got it) They finally got
electricity on the farm in W. Tx just before WW11, when my Mother was
about 10. She said she and some of her brothers were in a field some
distance away from the house, and it was dark by the time the power got
switched on. They came running home-- they thought the house was on
fire, it was so bright, compared to the kerosene lamps. Larry

Posted by Bob Villa on November 11, 2009, 7:58 am

On Nov 11, 12:04=A0am, lp1...@webtv.net (Lp1331 1p1331) wrote:
They finally got
electricity on the farm in W. Tx just before WW11, when my Mother was
about 10. She said she and some of her brothers were in a field some
distance away from the house, and it was dark by the time the power
got
switched on. They came running home-- they thought the house was on
fire, it was so bright, compared to the kerosene lamps. Larry
I must have missed WW3 thru 10! Holy Crap!
bob_v

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