Just curious...do many in Florida have " gas heat " to heat a home ?

[steve2470]

I am totally ignorant about this. I only know much about electric heat. I was talking to a UK friend about her gas heat.

Thank you in advance, Steve

eta: My parents had oil heat.

[Native]

1. no. it's basically all electric. if people have gas, it's for ovens & fireplaces (because when

it gets down to 65 degrees, it's time to fire that sucker up).

[kirkuchiyo]

9. 65?

That what I keep my heat at in the winter. Would be lower but my wife and daughters complained at 63.

[Native]

20. oh yeah, it's completely ridiculous. the minute it drops down below 70, people wear boots & jackets.

i went for a walk the other morning. it was 68 degrees. people were wearing jackets AND GLOVES!

[kirkuchiyo]

25. I rode

My motorcycle today. It was 50 out. Just a motorcycle jacket with no insulation, jeans and perforated leather gloves. Lovely fall ride... I guess it is what you are acclimatized to.

[mr_lebowski]

2. I could be wrong but I don't think gas heat is super common in US homes ...

As such I would kinda doubt that there's a lot of homes outfitted with it in Florida.

We USE gas in lots of places, but it's a lot more commonly used for stoves and hot water heaters and fake fireplaces.

Real old houses I think are more likely to have gas heat. LIke if built from the 1920-1960's.

[Cirque du So-What]

11. Half of all American homes are heated with natural gas

All other methods make up the other half.

[mr_lebowski]

14. Well shut my mouth ...

I've only had it in like 1/15 places I've lived in my life, and haven't known of many other people that had it ... maybe regional.

[Cirque du So-What]

18. Yep. From DOE:

[Kali]

3. I don't know about Florida

but there are two types of household gas for heating - natural gas delivered through pipes from a centralized point sort of like city water or electricity, and individual storage tanks of propane delivered by truck on a schedule.

[Alacritous Crier]

4. We had it in our last home in FL.

Underground propane tank. Gas heat, hot water and stove.

Hardly ever used heat.

[MaryMagdaline]

5. It's rare in South Florida to have gas rather than electric and I have no idea why. I know we had

the option for both new homes we bought in the last 30 years. We chose electric, and I don't remember why.

[getagrip_already]

7. Because everyone has AC, and they can also heat......

So it's a multi function unit.

Up here in new england, the lions share of heat is via heating oil. There is a sizeable natural gas base though. There was a drive many years back to convert people because gas was cheaper and relatively plentiful. Oil gets very pricey and supplies can be disrupted.

[MaryMagdaline]

8. makes sense

[mitch96]

21. I had a gas on demand hot water heater and gas stove. The heat was via the AC/electric heat.

This was in Hollywood between Ft laud and Miami.. I got a rebate from the gov't when I switched over.. The bill was about $15 per month.. One person cooking a lot and never taking showers. If I used the heat it was for about one week in Jan maybe Feb...
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[MaryMagdaline]

22. Hello from Cooper City! I love those Hollywood houses

Classic Florida

[LunaSea]

6. I think the geology

of Florida make underground pipework more problematic, particularly near the coast.
The more expensive it is to install distribution systems, the less likely they'd be offered.
I only recollect seeing electric heat in my visits to western and central Florida.

[OrlandoDem2]

12. Yep. I'm in Orlando.

[OrlandoDem2]

10. I have gas heater. It's not uncommon but most probably have electric.

[Earthshine2]

13. Delray Beach, here. No oil nor gas. Just electric. Electric is the simplest in every way. nt

[Delarage]

15. My MAGA sister

in Panama City has all electric.

I'm all gas here in Delaware (heat, dryer--although I use the sun mainly, hot water, cooking) and I helped renovate an old family home that we converted from oil to natural gas (for everything). The sun makes most of my electricity (solar panels on the roof). If the utility didn't have natural gas here, I would maybe use just electricity (and get more solar panels). Propane is very expensive.

[Chainfire]

17. I will wave at your sister when I go to Panama City tomorrow

On a antique shopping trip! My only MAGA family member, my sister, has a lake house there too.

[Delarage]

19. Must be

A MAGA-sister magnet

I haven't been down there in a few years. Her house got pretty damaged by the hurricane that wiped out Mexico Beach... I forget which one it was.

[Chainfire]

23. That would have been Hurricane Michael

It wiped out my sisters lake house too but they have rebuilt it. (I am beginning to wonder if we are talking about the same sister, you think we may be kin?)

[Chainfire]

16. When I built my current house in '98

I went with gas heat, oven, clothes dryer and water heater. I replaced the central heating system this past Spring so it will be my first Winter on a heat pump with strip backup. Over the years, I have replaced all of the appliances, except for the oven with electric. I bought a new gas range/oven this year because I far prefer cooking with gas. A good reason in Florida for having gas to cook with is when the hurricane knocks your power out for two weeks, you can still cook and heat water to bathe with.

Gas, especially natural gas, (as opposed to propane) is a solid choice for heating.

[Sancho]

24. Heat...????

...we turn off the air conditioning a few days a year....

[iscooterliberally]

26. In South Florida I have mostly had electric heat in all the places I have lived.

That's if I even had any heat at all. You really don't use it much. Maybe a few nights in January and February you turn it on. The first time you need to use it, you get that burnt dust smell. It goes away fast though. When I lived in Boston we had gas heat. Some places had oil. Some houses in Florida could have gas heat as there are some neighborhoods with gas stoves and water heaters. I've never had gas heat down here though. It's so damn hot for most of the year that I enjoy a good cold snap every now and then. I love getting to open the windows and air out the house.