Changing Electric Hob to Gas

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Just wondering if anyone has done this and how easy / hard it was. Also how much?

Not changing the whole kitchen, just the hob.

So I'm in the process of doing this.

The important thing is whether you have a gas supply to the area. You need to check this, if not does your house have a gas supply.

If you dont it makes it a lot more conplicated

It's gas heating. The kitchen is an extension though.

a registered gas installer will need to run a gas pipe to the new position. it is often run along the wall behind the kitchen units, in the utilities space or sometimes underneath, against the wall behind the legs. sometimes it is run under the floor.

possibly it can be taken from the pipe that supplies the boiler. it might possibly have to run back to the gas meter.

the gas installer can calculate the size of pipe required, depending on distance, bends, and what else feeds off the pipe.

people who extend kitchens sometimes allow for a cooker by providing a new gas pipe and electric circuit.

Brilliant, thank you.

Get an induction hob instead! We've just replaced our gas hob with induction. Quicker, cheaper to run, easy to clean...

Yes we did. We were getting a new kitchen put in so made it bit easier. The pipe was run from a radiator upstairs, it was put down at the corner of the kitchen and ran across to the cooker behind the units had to be boxed in where visible and used same material as units so it didn't look out of place.

Cost wise for us was a freebie as my uncle did it. Think it was fairly straight forward though I imagine would cost you £100-200 would be my estimate.

I second this.
Love my induction hob, its only a basic Beko one but far more like cooking with gas as it heats up quickly, & is much safer if you have children or pets in the home.

when we moved to our house, the first thing I did was change the gas hob to induction. I'd never use gas again - induction is fast & safe & so much easier to keep clean.

Induction is so much better and very easy to clean. Gas is not as good.

Interested to read the induction enthusiasm on here. We’ve always had a gas hob/electric oven. In process of building work and planning new kitchen and looking at a rangemaster Elise. We were almost set on the usual dual fuel but am now wondering with cost of gas etc should we go for induction? I don’t like the look of induction hobs, like the weighty look of the gas hob on rangemasters, but equally we’ve had a rangemaster classic dual fuel for a decade and cleaning the hob can be pretty tedious. Above all I love cooking on gas, I find it so responsive and pleasing. I’m worried an induction won’t live up to it! So I’m surprised to read that pp’s find it better - why is it please?

@LoveLabradors a million threads on here about induction hobs over the years but mainly, responsive, fast to boil, incredibly easy to clean compared to all the shitty bits that come with any gas hob. You can lock the controls, if a pan spills over it cuts the hob. The touch screen design means no bulky knobs.

As a test for us we bought an Andrew James cheap as chips 2 ring portable induction hob to test it to see if we liked it. We then used that whilst our kitchen extension was being built and had our gas capped off and an induction hob installed. 9 years on I still absolutely love it. There is no other electric comparison. We can combine zones on ours for larger pans, you cannot have pans that are bigger than the cooking zones. I have a "family pot" when I batch cook so I combine 2 zones to accommodate it. Same with a 28cm frying pan. So I suppose that would be the only negative. If you try to use a larger pan on a smaller zone the outsides of the pan do not get direct heat so it is relying on heat from the inner part of the pan to spread to the outer part of the pan.

I came to say to go induction but I see I've been beaten to it! When we had gas installed we had a pipe capped that could go to the kitchen if needed. But honestly we have never looked back. Only a basic induction too but it is fantastic!

Thank you @OnTheBenchOfDoom - appreciate your response. Will
also try searching old threads too as you suggest. I think it’s a bit of reluctance at moving away from tried and tested and familiar.

@LoveLabradors you can buy a single portable induction hob for about £50, I mean if it is good enough for The Great British Bake Off tent it is good enough for me it means you can test it out and see how you feel.

It's the bomb. So glad to have confirmation!

If you do swap an electric hob to a gas one, I think there are stricter rules about the clearance needed between the hob and anything above it, e.g. units or extractor. That might be something to check in case this turns out to be a bigger job than anticipated!

Another happy induction hob owner here, we had gas in our last home, have installed induction in our new home, awesome, would never go back to gas. We have a Bosch induction hob, ease of cleaning, super fast boil, really pleased with it.

I agree with PP’s the rules regarding gas hobs have changed, require more clearance, up you have upstand that would have to go etc, any sockets moved out of the “hot zone” etc. If you Google you will see the regulations etc.

gas hobs are a startlingly big source of indoor air pollution. I would never install one now and look forward to getting rid of ours. Bad idea to have one w asthmatics in the house, and not healthy for anyone (unless you have amazing ventilation)

We get lots of power cuts so swapped back to a gas hob when we had our kitchen redone, so might also be something to consider if you're thinking about an induction hob.
I did like the induction hob but they're not much use if you can't power them.

We have had tan off large bottles in our garden, I would never change it.

I find it reassuring to be self sufficient especially after the storms and power cuts this winter.

Had tan

Should be gas ran *!