Our house was built to favor gas major appliances over electric, thus the only 220V circuit is for the A/C compressor.  From time to time Home Depot puts a Frigidaire induction stove on sale for as little as $800.00.  Only problem is, our kitchen has a gas line and a 110V outlet for the stove.  Would the cost to add a 220V outlet equal or exceed the cost of the stove?

Thanks.

Joe, I think it will be dependent upon how far from the circuit box the line has to be run in addition to the going rate locally.  You might do an online search for your location with Home Advisor and a similar services.  Sometimes Lowes and HD have contractors they refer when customers purchase products that needs installation.  You might also ask either store if they know how much such a job would estimate for.  

On another note, that particular Frigidaire range is like the BOL of all induction ranges.  Frigidaire also has some reliability issues, along with parent company Electrolux.  

Can vary widely depending on many differences in homes, without any information about your homes construction, layout and electrical service panel I would guess that it could vary from $150 through upwards around $4000 if your home needs new upgraded service panel and service line.

Get quotes on installing a 40 amp 240 volt four wire receptacle and go from there., also consider that someone has to unhook the gas range and cap the line, you might do this yourself if you are handy.

John L.

The only problem with DIY is that in many locations it still needs to be permitted and inspected.

I'm a bit lucky, here. The kitchen has 220 to the cook top, and also to the laundry closet nearby, as well as to the electric drop in range in the patio kitchen.

However the only one I use is for the patio range, an old Frigidaire electric number. I had someone extend the gas line to the cooktop and laundry room. I'm fixing to extend the gas line to the patio kitchen as well, and maybe also to the outer patio where I have a gas grill (would like to convert that to natural gas). Even have a couple of used gas ranges ready to put in the patio kitchen: a GE, a Modern Maid, and the latest, a Kitchenaid Superba convection range, which my neighbor gave me the other day since he's remodeling their kitchen. It's white, and they want stainless. Will it ever happen? Damned if I know!

A 40 amp circuit is more than heavy enough for any domestic today, installing a 40 amp line and breaker gives a greater margin of safety if something goes wrong in the range, it also saves cost and valuable copper and doing so reduces your impact on the environment, there is no benefit in over consuming materials.

John L.

When I bought this house, it had an electric wall oven (GE P*7) and an old Corning ceramic cooktop. It also had a 60's era Frigidaire drop-in range (30 in) in a kitchen area of the enclosed patio.

I replaced the electric cooktop with a Frigidaire "Gas on Glass" cooktop. Kept the P*7 wall oven and have been collecting gas ranges as possible replacements for the electric range in the patio kitchen. Since that will require running a new gas line, it's been postponed a few times.

Anyway, this thread prompted me to check out the amps in the breaker box for the cooktop, range, and oven. The oven has its own 40 amp circuit, and it's hard-wired in, of course. The cooktop was sharing a 50 amp breaker with the patio range. When I converted the cooktop to gas, I ran a new breaker box under the counter to split out one of the legs of the 220 circuit to 110 to run the igniter for the new gas cooktop, on a 15 amp circuit.

I will have to do a similar arrangement if an when I convert the electric patio range over to gas, to run the igniters and fan for the convection oven in that appliance.

Interestingly, there's a 40 amp 220 volt breaker in the main house panel that runs about 100 feet to the separate workshop building. At some point I'll have to measure the gauge (and length) of the wires in the buried conduit that serves that run. It would be nice to up the breaker to 50 amps or more, and upgrade the wire gauge if necessary. But no hurry on that. Esp since the whole property is running on a 100 amp 220 volt main circuit.