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| Thread ID: 112789 | 2010-09-22 10:16:00 | Gas to home | globe (11482) | PC World Chat |
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| 1139005 | 2010-09-22 22:35:00 | We moved into this house a little over a year ago. 75 Metres from the road to the house.$1200 to trench & lay the gas pipe. Then appliances on top of that. House is all electric, surprise, surprise. Gas heating is much better tho. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1139006 | 2010-09-23 01:32:00 | Annual Cylinder Rental Rental is an annual fee of $126 for two 45kg cylinders in the North Island and $96 for two 45kg cylinders in the South Island. Quote from on gas website - seems quite reasonable for hiring the bottles.35c / charge for the two. |
globe (11482) | ||
| 1139007 | 2010-09-23 01:38:00 | Bottles work well, but also have a indirect daily charge in that you hire the bottles for 6 months or so at about $110 per bottle, but that does work out cheaper. If your price was ever correct then the rentals have dropped quite a lot. OnGas quote "Rental is an annual fee of $126 for two 45kg cylinders in the North Island and $96 for two 45kg cylinders in the South Island." |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1139008 | 2010-09-23 02:03:00 | Used to have gas connected at the old place. Just remember, with a connection to the gas mains, assuming you have electricity too (:)), you may well end up paying two "line" charges: one for power, one for gas. Cheaper option is to stick with the bottles. Yes, thats what I was thinking....A couple of big bottles at the side of your house that no-one sees is got to be better than trenches in the front lawn to install. Safer too, earthquakes and all. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1139009 | 2010-09-23 09:06:00 | We had gas at our last address (sold in May) and originally had a gas oven with gas hob. The gas hob was great - much better than electricity - but the oven not so good. The pipes were already there which saved laying a gas line. We will be using gas bottles at our new address. When we renovated our old address we installed gas central heating - great - installed a new gas hob (but an electric oven) - great - and gas continuous hot water (originally called a califont which has been around for decades) - also great. We highly recommend gas as opposed to electricity. The price difference between the two is minimal but the big advantage, with the hot water, is that there is no hot water cylinder taking up space - it is a small unit on an outside wall. The gas hob is much quicker and easier and gas central heating is, I understand, more efficient. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1139010 | 2010-09-23 10:44:00 | We have a 4 burner gas hob in our new kitchen which is supplied by a 9kg barbeque LPG cylinder. It is great to cook on, much faster and more controlled than electricity, we think. A full cylinder lasts about 4-5 months with daily use. The cylinder currently costs $26 to fill at Nova at the Mount, but with the loyalty card which gives us the 5th fill half price, and the 10th fill free, it works out to be $22.10 per fill. We own the cylinders, which cost about $40 if bought on special and last 10 years before needing testing, so no rental involved. We use the same cylinders on the caravan and barbeque so they can be used on any of the several gas appliances we have. |
Andrew B (867) | ||
| 1139011 | 2010-09-23 12:13:00 | My parents redid the bathroom in their garage and decided on gas heating for the hot water out there (as it is so rarely used). They have it connected to a standard gas bottle so there is no rental on it, and I can get free gas bottles so it works quite well. | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 1139012 | 2010-09-23 13:18:00 | Out here I'm on bottled gas, with hot water and a hob. Was really useful with the quake. We lost power and water, but got water back about 18hrs after. Didn't get power back for another 24hrs after that. That meant we were able to boil our water without power, although I managed to singe the hairs off my arm lighting the hob! A friend had her kitchen redone a few months back and had a stonking great 7-burner freestanding hob/oven put in. Since she's a chef she went for gas, but since she only wanted the gas for the hob, she brought herself a 9kg cyl for the hob. Does her just fine. Between three people here, one 45kg cyl lasts us about 2-3 months easily, can wring 'em out to 4 sometimes. Oh, and being able to dial in the temp you want for showers is fantastic! No more mucking around waiting for the mix to come right. IIRC I can select a range between 37 and 55 degrees, although it's limited to 50 in the bathroom. Awesome! |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1139013 | 2010-09-23 19:40:00 | My parents redid the bathroom in their garage and decided on gas heating for the hot water out there (as it is so rarely used). They have it connected to a standard gas bottle so there is no rental on it, and I can get free gas bottles so it works quite well. Does their car get that dirty it needs a daily shower? |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1139014 | 2010-09-24 01:24:00 | For those with gas bottles, where are they stored and how far away from the appliances are they? I wanted gas when we redid our kitchen last year but the only two places to store them were under the kitchen window, which is not permitted, or down the back of the house, which was too far away, so I had to stay with electric . :( |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
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