I'm probably in the minority here, but I just converted from Propane to NG on a second house I bought. The propane cost me over $1200 this past winter to keep it 55 deg when it was vacant. Now, my daughter lives there and with an electric H2O heater energy costs were getting pretty high. Didn't want to go another winter like that.
I contacted the Gas company but the main stopped down the road quite a ways. They surveyed the neighbors downstream from me and the cost would have been about $5k apiece to pull the main and hook up if we had 7 or 8 sign up. None wanted to, so I bore the entire cost to extend the main (over $ 7k). Now if one of them signs up later on, they get the benefit of me paying the brunt of the cost. C'est la vie. Since I bought this house out of foreclosure and paid over $100k less than it last sold for, I'm just factoring the NG conversion into the cost basis when I price/resell the house.
BTW, on a gas furnace, in addition to changing the orifices (about $10 worth of parts and 15 minutes labor) the manifold pressure needs to be adjusted for NG. Also about 15 minutes of labor time using a manometer. My stove just needed an orifice change (both sizes built-in, just needed to flip it) and a pilot light adjustment.
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