Nobody has ever said "I love my electric stove."
People say it’s fine. People say it came with the house. Nobody has ever leaned back after dinner and said boy, thank goodness for those coils.
Because here’s what an electric burner does. You turn it to high. Nothing happens. You stare at it. You go check your phone. You come back and it’s glowing like a shop light and your olive oil is one degree from becoming a news story.
So you turn it down.
It does not go down. It sits there, still furious, radiating heat like a grudge, while your garlic goes from golden to charcoal in the time it takes to say "wait, no."
You are not cooking. You are negotiating with a hot rock.
The Blue Flame Thing
Turn a gas knob down and the flame goes down.
I know that sounds simple but that’s how cooking is supposed to be.
You want a simmer that actually simmers instead of a pot that either sits there doing nothing or boils over onto your stovetop the second you turn your back. You want to sear a steak and then not have to move the pan to a different burner like you’re playing hot potato with dinner.
You want to be the one making the decisions in your own kitchen.
And you can put a tortilla directly on the flame, which is either the best thing about gas or the most dangerous, depending on how the rest of your evening is going.
One more thing: when the power goes out in an ice storm and everybody else on your street is eating cold Pop-Tarts in the dark, you’ve got a match and a working burner. That’s not a selling point. That’s a flex.
Okay So What’s the Catch
The catch is that your kitchen has no gas in it.
Behind your stove right now there’s an outlet and some drywall. Neither of those has ever produced a flame, and you should call somebody if they do.
The range itself is the easy part. You can buy it today. Two guys can carry it in and it’ll look fantastic sitting there doing absolutely nothing.
The real work is running pipe from your gas supply to that spot. Around here that means a trip through the crawl space.
Pipe comes up behind the range, gets a shutoff valve, connects to the stove. Then the whole thing gets pressure tested because safety is first and foremost our top priority.
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Why Your Kitchen’s Address Matters
The price mostly comes down to one question: how far is your kitchen from your gas meter?
Close together? Short trip. Easy day.
Meter on one end of the house, kitchen on the other? Now that’s a lot of pipe and a lot of a grown man army-crawling through the dirt under your floor, thinking about how awesome his abs are going to look.
The crawl space itself gets an opinion too. Some of them are practically a hallway. Some are eighteen inches tall with ductwork everywhere, and every foot forward is a negotiation with a duct that was clearly installed by somebody who assumed no human would ever return.
Tackling those tight crawl spaces and complex duct layouts is all in a day’s work for HVAC experts like E.R.S. Heating & Cooling, who focus on keeping essential home systems running efficiently.
Every now and then we find the existing gas line already maxed out, feeding a furnace and a water heater. Add a range to that and it simply won’t work.
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Alright, Serious for One Second
Gas is not water.
A water leak drips on your ceiling for a month and gives you plenty of chances to notice. Gas doesn’t do you that favor. We make absolutely sure that everything is in order — all the connections, the size of the pipe, all of it.
Okay. Back to normal.
Two Things People Forget Until It’s Annoying
A shutoff you can actually get to. When you want the gas off, you want it off at the point of use and not having to crawl under your home or out to the meter to shut it off.
Your vent hood. A lot of kitchens have the fake kind. It sucks air up, runs it past a little screen, and hands the exact same air back to you like it did you a favor. That’s fine over an electric coil. Over an open flame you want that air actually leaving your home.
Neither is a big deal today. Both are worth thinking about if you’re remodeling the kitchen anyway.
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How Bizzy B Handles It
We come look before we throw out a number. Find the meter, trace what’s there, figure out the route, then give you some options.
If it’s a bigger job than you were hoping, you hear it from us before you buy a range. Not after it’s parked in your kitchen looking pretty with nothing to hook up to.
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Questions People Actually Ask
Can I run the gas line myself?
Please don’t. I know we just met but we love you and your family loves you.
How long does it take?
It can take a couple of hours to a day depending on how your gas lines are laid out.
What if my house doesn’t have gas at all?
First call goes to the gas company about running service to the house. Once there’s a meter installed, we handle everything from there to your kitchen.
Do I still need an outlet back there?
Yep. Gas ranges still want electricity for the igniter, the clock, and the little light. Just a regular plug though, not the 240-volt monster the electric one was using. We can make that happen too.
Does this work with propane?
Sure does, and a lot of folks out in Blount County are on propane. Just make sure the range you order is set up for it. For the most part, they are built different and you don’t want to find that out on delivery day. And while you’re thinking about your home’s other gas-powered systems, it’s worth knowing that tankless water heater repair in Knoxville is something we handle too — most units just need a cleaning, not a replacement.
Now, back to shopping. Enjoy!
Call Bizzy B at (865) 233-3900 and we’ll come see what it takes.
Article by
Lance T Ford Jr
Hi! I'm Lance, the owner of Bizzy B. I've been in the plumbing business for over 20 years. I started Bizzy B back in 2011. It was just me in a truck. Since then I've grown the business to multiple trucks and work side by side with my lovely wife Deanna. We have been serving Knoxville, Maryville, Alcoa and the surrounding areas with a burning passion to serve our customers and help them get their day back on track.